The 3G network still has a year and a half before it officially shuts down, but it's been whittled down to a point where Verizon won't take any more in.
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The Helio P10 started things off as a fairly popular mid-range chip for OEMs. The Helio P20 was slow to pick up. So, how are the P30 and P23 going to do?
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Sprint subscribers can user data while they're making calls on LTE and Wi-Fi to look up maps and cloud drive files in their busy, bus lives... finally.
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Speaking at an Ericsson event at MWC 2017, T-Mobile CTO Neville Ray said that the carrier will have to work on converting every last call onto VoLTE.
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Our smart “phones” are increasingly inaccurately described as “phones”. Every day, billions of people pocket tiny little super computers which are capable of incredible communication and multimedia activities. Voice calls are only one small part of why we buy smartphones, but when you do fire up a call, you want it to sound good. What affects call quality? Will it improve soon?Your phone’s hardwareThe first place to look at audio quality is the device in your pocket. Over many years of evolution and refinement, modern smartphones now routinely include high quality microphones and ...
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With so many apps these days offering their own voice chat (to say nothing of video-call) capabilities, regular old-fashioned voice-call support on smartphones can feel like a bit of a dinosaur: why use such dated tech when you can call your buddies right from within Snapchat? But to the credit of carriers, we have seen some renewed interest in modernizing voice calls in recent years, mainly through the deployment of ...
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Using high-speed, efficient LTE data networks to handle voice calls makes a lot of sense, so it’s little surprise we already see plenty of carriers supporting such VoLTE systems – a number that’s only likely to increase. But for all the promise VoLTE promises, it also represents a major shift to the way voice calls are handled by phone hardware, routed, and even billed – changes that have the potential to cause users and carriers alike a few headaches. In a recent paper, a team of researchers in ...
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T-Mobile’s improving network will need to have phones that utilize every last bit of it as they can. Recently, it’s been having some trouble with its OEMs using Band 12 LTE. That’s the precious bit of the 700MHz spectrum T-Mobile is using to expand broad land coverage. While the issue entangles lack of VoLTE and E911 call routing, it looks like the Nexus 5X and
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Wireless network technology is in a constant state of advancement. Just years ago, swooning over 3G-capable phones wasn’t as heinous as it sounds today, and we’re already in a world where the majority of some countries is blanketed with LTE networks. The natural next step in the evolution is the adoption of voice-over-LTE / HD voice technology in order to improve the dying voice call. And AT&T is continuing that momentum with updates to a portion of its smartphone fleet, including through this Galaxy S4 Mini VoLTE update today.The update is only for AT&T-branded units ...
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It may or may not be Lollipop, but who’s to complain about a brand-new update for the DROID Turbo? Today, soak testers part of the Motorola Feedback Network are reporting to Droid Life that they’ve received word of an upcoming soak test, which likely is either Android 5.0 (Lollipop), HD Voice/VoLTE/Advanced Calling 1.0, or both.Motorola made the Lollipop update available for versions of he Moto X smartphone just a ew short weeks or days ago depending on your carrier, so it’s safe to assume that the same goodies could be crossing the pond to its elder sibling the Turbo. ...
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For as high-tech as our smartphones are, the voice calls they make decidedly aren’t. Phones have long been held back by legacy voice standards, failing to take full advantage of the bandwidth and processing power of modern handsets. Luckily for us, salvation awaits in the form of voice over LTE, or VoLTE. Last month, Verizon shared its plans to activate its own VoLTE network in the weeks to come, and today we get word that it’s getting things started, going live with what it’s calling Advanced ...
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A couple weeks back, we were talking about the idea of smartphones that dropped all their 2G/3G radios in favor of going 4G-only, relying on LTE for everything from voice to data. While such an arrangement could offer some very real benefits, it sounded like we were still pretty far off, and hearing about Verizon’s progress towards thatgoal, it was looking like we still might have another two years to wait. One of the stepping stones along the way, before losing the 2G/3G hardware, would be ...
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When we’re talking about smartphone radios, we’re usually concerned with the latest-and-greatest tech they support – Cat 4 LTE, or even Cat 6 in some nations, for speeds reaching into the hundreds of megabits a second – so it’s easy to forget just how much support there is for older systems, even those we rely on regularly. While there’s some early progress towards things like voice over LTE, the vast majority ...
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Last week, AT&T shared news of its efforts to vastly improve voice call quality on smartphones, moving forward with its introduction of HD Voice, the carrier’s Voice over LTE solution. We knew to expect HD Voice to go live this coming Friday in a number of Midwestern markets, and knew that the first AT&T phone to support the service would be the Samsung Galaxy S4 mini. Today we see AT&T’s plans start coming together, as it begins sales of the GS4 mini. Wait a minute; AT&T didn’t already have ...
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For all the advancements smartphones have made with high-speed data, audio fidelity, and advanced noise-cancellation, voice calls have been seriously stuck in the past. While our phones blast cellular data out at multiple megabits per second, voice has been constrained by its reliance on older standards – your $700 smartphone handles voice traffic in much the same way as a free-on-contract dumbphone. Progress has been slow to revamp voice, but the promise of voice over LTE – or VoLTE for short – has been looking like one of the most ...
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