Is it a Mystery?
It feels like one but I don't know if it is.
We're talking about Phone to ear call quality, nothing else. The basic defining feature of the iPhone.
Personally my benchmark for phone call quality is the Nokia 6310i - it was incredible for a mobile.
The speaker in the headset must have been better than what was normally bundled on any phone in the market at that time. This is the time of GSM calls. It was pitched as a top of the range executive phone. Not only had it amazing battery life approx. two weeks, it had awesome call quality. You could have serious conversations, very comfortably. Other Nokias of the time didn't have the same level of audio presence or any other phone but they were good. So what has happened to call quality since?
Gernally I'm finding call quality these days (or the last few years) not very good. Conversations suffer, it's hard to have a genuine conversation on a normal phone call these days.
What's going on?
The one singular function that defines the device, and it's unreliable and prone to constant change, like it has been forgotten. I remember when signal.app in the early days was doing something really special, as the call quality was astounding, but no as much anymore, it was bordering on HiFi, or the first time it was wow, it had that move from basic utero to HiFo storer wow, the other calls voice had much deeper and richer spatial presence, it felt really wow, I thought, we've reached next level audio calls, and was relatively the best experience since the Nokia 6310i, what has happened since?
Even FaceTime Audio use to be great, now it seems so so.
I know ther are so many variable,s but end to end, whatever teh device, call quality is very uncomfortable, the experience needs to be comfortable to engender good coomunciaiton that could be classed as a real conversation. No one ever seem to know when the other person has stopped talking, and talking over each other is a lot more common, you have to almost train yourself to wait sometimes. What is going on?
Call Quality, why is a feature you never hear about the awesome and great improvements?
Has Tim of ever stood up there and said "this is the best cal quality experience we've ever had on iiPhone", perhaps I missed that memo.
Is it software?
Is it hardware?
Is it Networks?
Is it an intractable mix of all these and more to be utterly confounding?
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What iPhone do you think ha the best call quality?
What's the "geekbench" for call quality, is there one out there?
It feels like one but I don't know if it is.
We're talking about Phone to ear call quality, nothing else. The basic defining feature of the iPhone.
Personally my benchmark for phone call quality is the Nokia 6310i - it was incredible for a mobile.
The speaker in the headset must have been better than what was normally bundled on any phone in the market at that time. This is the time of GSM calls. It was pitched as a top of the range executive phone. Not only had it amazing battery life approx. two weeks, it had awesome call quality. You could have serious conversations, very comfortably. Other Nokias of the time didn't have the same level of audio presence or any other phone but they were good. So what has happened to call quality since?
Gernally I'm finding call quality these days (or the last few years) not very good. Conversations suffer, it's hard to have a genuine conversation on a normal phone call these days.
What's going on?
The one singular function that defines the device, and it's unreliable and prone to constant change, like it has been forgotten. I remember when signal.app in the early days was doing something really special, as the call quality was astounding, but no as much anymore, it was bordering on HiFi, or the first time it was wow, it had that move from basic utero to HiFo storer wow, the other calls voice had much deeper and richer spatial presence, it felt really wow, I thought, we've reached next level audio calls, and was relatively the best experience since the Nokia 6310i, what has happened since?
Even FaceTime Audio use to be great, now it seems so so.
I know ther are so many variable,s but end to end, whatever teh device, call quality is very uncomfortable, the experience needs to be comfortable to engender good coomunciaiton that could be classed as a real conversation. No one ever seem to know when the other person has stopped talking, and talking over each other is a lot more common, you have to almost train yourself to wait sometimes. What is going on?
Call Quality, why is a feature you never hear about the awesome and great improvements?
Has Tim of ever stood up there and said "this is the best cal quality experience we've ever had on iiPhone", perhaps I missed that memo.
Is it software?
Is it hardware?
Is it Networks?
Is it an intractable mix of all these and more to be utterly confounding?
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What iPhone do you think ha the best call quality?
What's the "geekbench" for call quality, is there one out there?
