CREO's Mark 1 gets new update, allows preset audio profiles for apps

Imagine you are constantly on the move and have your headphones are plugged in listening to music. Now you suddenly get an alert with news that your favourite batsman made some headline and there is a video associated with the alert. You switch to the alert and find out that it is an interview with your sports star which is almost inaudible—because the audio is not too great. So you turn up the volume and still find that though the audio is high, the vocals are not clear. So you head to your audio settings, and tweak the equalizer and so that the audio is good. But then, after that you head back to your music and then again you have to tweak the audio back to your preference. And most phones today, don’t allow you to tweak the audio settings with an equalizer.

In order to address this issue, and make things smoother and faster, CREO’s new June update will help you preset your audio settings for different apps. so if you are watching the news, or a sport or listening to music or simply enjoying a flick, you can simply pull up the audio settings and set the desired preset for your favourite app.

CREO’s FUEL OS update enhances audio experience:

CREO, a Bangalore based consumer technology company today, announced the update to its proprietary stock Android based Operating System – FUEL OS, for the month of June 2016. The latest update packs in customizable Audio Effects, which allow users to natively change sound effects, across apps and system software; be it games or streaming or listening to stored music.

Keeping up with the promise of a New Phone Every Month, by providing monthly OS level updates, CREO rolled out its first set of updates last month. With the Audio Effect feature added this month, users get a quick and easy way to enhance their media listening experience. The feature stems from the understanding that a user spends a lot of time consuming varied media on their smartphone and each media demands a different audio output. From gaming to listening to music to hearing an audio-speech on the phone; there are different audio modes best suited for each. Audio Effects also makes it dead simple for Fuel OS users to toggle between audio modes.

Sai Srinivas, CEO & Co-Founder, CREO, said “Audio has become integral to the modern day smartphone user - from music and movies to sound effects in games. When the feature suggestion came from our active community in CREO Forums, we realized we must build a universal and seamless solution to tuning music in Fuel OS, applicable for all apps and customizable to your output. With this update, we believe audio will never be the same on Fuel OS, starting this June”

Empower your Sound

Audio Effects is Fuel OS’ endeavor to empower the sounds in your phone, and to do it not just for all apps and games in your phone, but also adapt it for all outputs from your phone, be it Bluetooth, AUX Output or USB.

The Audio Effects in Fuel OS now sports five presets:

Balanced             Great sound for all kinds of media - music, games and videos

Acoustic               Warm tone and higher mids best suited for acoustic music

Bass Boost          Punchy bass and crisp beats that go great with electronic tracks

3D Surround Sound         Envelop yourself with powerful atmospheric surround sound

Clear Voice         Focus on spoken voices with emphasis on clarity

No Effects           Default profile with no effects active

These settings can be used as starting points to further fine tune the audio settings to one’s liking and can be saved as multiple ‘Custom Audio Effects’ to work across apps and beyond.

Focusing on usability and convenience, while the user can toy with the graphically intuitive 10 band equalizer to listen to the effects in real time, an expert audiophile can drop deep into advanced settings to tune Reverberations, Surround, Gain Control, Bass Boost and much more and save it in a jiffy.

Shifting sound profiles is also nifty. Apart from the settings menu, at the press of one of the volume rockers, a menu can be dropped down to select your profiles in a couple of quick taps, so you can quickly switch sound profiles as you switch apps.