Editorial: iPad, Apple, and HD voice–Who knows?

Does the “new” iPad support HD voice? If you take Fraunhofer’s definition of “Full-HD voice” – meaning if it uses its codec – the answer is, yes, the Apple iPad and iPhones with Facetime do HD voice.  But that’s not HD voice as defined within the mobile world today.

What if the phone [...]

Editorial–HD voice vs. HD audio and the lack of specification

Coming out of Mobile World Congress 2012, it is clear many mobile handset manufacturers haven’t “gotten it” when it comes to HD voice.  In addition, too many vendors – wireless and wireline – can’t be bothered to put together a simple data sheet listening codecs.

ZTE stood out among the many companies releasing [...]

Editorial – Straw poll: Events for the next three months

What U.S. events should HD Voice News attend over the next three months?

Enterprise Connect (Late March, Orlando) CTIA  Wireless (May, New Orleans) The Cable Show  (May, Boston) Others

At this point, all three have some merits. 

Enterprise Connect can shed more light on the rapid shift from stand-alone PBXes to hosted services.  [...]

Editorial from IT EXPO East- Aren’t IP phones done yet?

Miami, FL – There are at least three vendors touting new IP phones or software/firmware upgrades to their phones here at IT Expo. I thought we were done with handsets already?

Digium is getting a lot spin along with a good measure of WTF by rolling out its own IP phones; three to be [...]

Editorial–Recovering from CES 2012

I am (once again, damn you annual severe airplane cold) recovering from CES.  There’s a backlog of at least 2-3 stories from last week, plus a bunch of significant material flowing from announcements this week.

Bits from last week include–

D2’s move into LTE Ericsson’s embrace of G.719 and priority queuing for gaming as [...]

CES 2012 meeting schedule for HD Voice News

HD Voice News Editor-in-Chief Doug Mohney will be on site at CES in Las Vegas from Sunday, January 8 through Wednesday afternoon, January 11.  

Sunday, January 8

CES Unveiled, 4-7 PM, The Venetian Ballroom D

Monday, January 9

Various press conferences at the Venetian, 8 AM through approximately 4 PM. Some time available [...]

Editorial-All time high for HD Voice News website statistics

Last month, HD Voice News logged in a total of 3,452 unique visits and over 4,900 page views for the month, plus over the double the average returning visits.

Hopefully, this is part of a larger trend as HD voice contributes to proliferate across the world.

Editorial–Why CES 2012 should count big time for HD voice

This year’s CES (more formally, the International Consumer Electronics Show 2012) should be a Big Deal for HD voice in the mobile and cable space.

Mobile and AMR-WB should get solid play, between the proliferation of HD voice among carriers in Europe and the forthcoming arrival of VoLTE in North America for Verizon Wireless.  [...]

Call for briefings–2012 HD Voice Report

HD Voice News is now taking briefings from companies for inclusion into its 2012 report.  Briefings can be conducted either in an open fashion or under embargo.

If you represent a company in the HD voice ecosystem – hardware, software, services – you  are strongly encouraged to contact HD Voice News Editor-in-Chief Doug [...]

Editorial- Is HD Voice cool with a younger generation in Europe ?

Over the past few weeks, I’ve seen the Twitter #HDvoice tag pop up in unexpected ways.  The first time I saw it roll out because it was associated with some rapper that I hadn’t heard of – not surprising, since I’m more of a Stevie Nicks/80 on 8 guy – and it annoyed me [...]