April 26, 2007
Advertising Complaint Against Nokia Rejected
Nokia wins lawsuit - The Nokia 5300's claim that it has CD quality sound has been confirmed, as users can't distinguish a real CD from the quality of music it plays. Cellular News reports.
"... The UK's Advertising Standards Authority said that while it noted the complainant believed the claim "CD quality sound" was misleading, because compressed music files were not the same quality as music files on CD, which had a bit rate of 1411 kbps.
However, they also noted the ISO report had found that listeners had been unable to distinguish between compressed AAC files encoded at 128kbps and CD sound. The test results showed that AAC encoding at 128kbps was indistinguishable from CD sound.
The ASA says that it considered that readers would interpret the claim "CD quality sound" to mean that when they listened to files played on the Nokia XpressMusic the sound would be indistinguishable from CD sound, and that Nokia had substantiated the claim "CD quality sound" and it was unlikely to mislead. "
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