Re:The end of smartphone innovation
by nradov on Saturday March 25, 2017 @11:21PM
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The cell phone carrier market is the classic example of a "confusopoly" where the dominant market players make it as hard as possible for consumers to make fully informed decisions. None of the carriers actually has a monopoly outside of a few isolated areas.
Acoustics make it impossible to do good noise cancellation using just an app. You really need a specialized microphone mounted directly on the headphones.
Re:The end of smartphone innovation
by petra on Sunday March 26, 2017 @12:45AM
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Sure you need a high quality microphone on the earphone - but that's men's , could be very cheap in volume. And the rest is something interface chip on the phone, and than some digital logic which is cheap.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Confusopoly
Acoustics make it impossible to do good noise cancellation using just an app. You really need a specialized microphone mounted directly on the headphones.