KINGS LANGLEY, Herts, England� Pure launched the Elan 3 in recent weeks, a colorful radio with its own color exterior, shown at right.
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But the technology that gives the Elan 3 its color screen display has also been revealed, Frontier Silicon�s Verona 2 module. The upgraded platform supports color screen displays for DAB/DAB+ digital radios, and is now available.
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The Verona 2 module is based on the Kino 4 chip, which uses a single integrated processor, for power efficiency. No additional hardware is required to add the color screen into digital radios.
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Among the features that the Verona 2 module provides are images for station branding, songs, artists, news, traffic and weather information.�
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A version of this article originally appeared on the website of Radio World, Radio magazine’s sister publication.�
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