Dolby Brings Dolby Atmos Immersive Sound on Samsung Mobile Devices

SAN FRANCISCO, Feb. 25, 2018 -- Dolby Laboratories, Inc. (NYSE:DLB) today announced a partnership with Samsung Electronics Co., Ltd. to launch the Galaxy S9 and Galaxy S9+ with Dolby Atmos® sound.

Immersive sound in the palm of your hand. Experience it with Dolby Atmos and Samsung S9.

A leap forward from surround sound, Dolby Atmos delivers breathtaking, moving audio over headphones and built-in speakers that flows around you. You’ll feel like you’re in the action as the sounds of people, places, things, and music come alive with richness and depth and seem to move in three-dimensional space.

“Dolby Atmos is enabling a new level of audio experience on the Samsung Galaxy S9 and Galaxy S9+ mobile devices. This announcement signifies a milestone for the expansion of Dolby Atmos into more devices and Samsung’s commitment to expand the availability of Dolby Atmos experiences,” said Giles Baker, SVP, Consumer Entertainment Group, Dolby Laboratories. “In addition to the theater and home, Dolby Atmos transforms the way you experience audio on mobile, enabling immersive, and spectacular experiences whenever you are on the go.”

Dolby Atmos for mobile devices brings the premier sound experience, first used in cinema, and increasingly available on televisions and home entertainment devices, to smartphones and tablets. It creates powerful moving audio on your mobile device via headphone and built-in speakers, wherever you go. Benefits include: a more enveloping soundfield, greater subtlety and nuance, crisper dialogue, maximized loudness without distortion, and consistent playback volume for a very wide variety of content.