Voice Quality on Smart Phones Still Sucks (2014)

Re:Voice Quality on Smart Phones Still Sucks (2014) by cptskippy on Monday December 07, 2015 @12:45PM (#10691081)

I started playing around with a Lumia 530 on T-Mobile which has HD Voice and the call quality is night and day compared to my Nexus 4. Everyone I've talked to says the calls sound dramatically better and I'm not aware of anyone who has HD Voice capable phones. The noise cancelling seems to be a big thing as most people tell me that they can't tell I'm driving when I have them on speaker phone.

I didn't realize it had HD Voice and chalked it up to Nokia just knowing how to make a decent handset.

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Re:Voice Quality on Smart Phones Still Sucks (2014) by explorigin on Monday December 07, 2015 @03:05PM (#10692264)

This! HD Voice is amazing and honestly I wish I could have a dumb phone that could do Skype calls and HD Voice. Honestly the only reason I like having a smartphone is the better call quality for (some) voice comms.

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Re:Voice Quality on Smart Phones Still Sucks (2014) by tschuy on Monday December 07, 2015 @03:04PM (#10692253)

The Nexus 4 also has HD voice, at least on T-Mobile.

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Re:Voice Quality on Smart Phones Still Sucks (2014) by cptskippy on Monday December 07, 2015 @07:19PM (#10693890)

I seriously question your claim and would require some citation. The Nexus 4 call quality is abysmal and the dual microphones to cancel out background noise seem to only amplify it. It's not just my phone because I've had 2 now, I love the phone but it's call quality sucks.

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