We all know the name Dolby is generally synonymous for high quality sound. Now, Dolby Labs just announced at the 2009 GSMA Mobile World Congress details about a Media Generator. Sounds pretty darn impressive doesn’t it?

So what is this Media Generator? It’s a “preprocessing and encoding solution for mobile multimedia content.” So what this means is that is uses specific coding efficiencies. These efficiencies make file sizes smaller while at the same time helping to deliver great sound. This part of the whole Dolby release is actually geared toward service providers and content distributors, not joe schmoe phone user-although it obviously will affect him or her.

With Mobile World Conference upon us in Barcelona, there’s bound to be plenty of amazing cell phones being shown off. While there is no new iPhone to be found, there are a few phones that have the potential to level the playing field in terms of what a cell phone can do. One example would be the new LG’s new flagship phone, the Arena.

Looking at the Arena, it seems to take a few clues from other touchscreen phones that try to compete with the iPhone. But, the user interface, LG’s new 3D S-Class User Interface, is what sets it apart. Think of it as somewhere like the iPhone interface with Compiz effects and you’re almost there. It certainly looks impressive in the demos, and should run well given its powered by a “powerful AMD processor.” There doesn’t look to be anything resembling multi-touch that could cause legal issues, but there doesn’t seem to be much need for it in the GUI.

Of course, if the only difference was the GUI it would be a rather boring phone, but LG packed a lot of interesting features into the Arena.