Over in the UK, Orange has announced the release date for the San Francisco II smart phone. The budget smart phone boasts HD voice, Wi-Fi signal boost, the latest version of Android (Gingerbread 2.3), and Orange Mobile Mail. It’ll be available for 99 pounds on a pre-pay plan or free if you sign up for 24 [...]
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The Global mobile Suppliers Association (GSA) has issued a new report on HD voice declaring “almost half” of EU member countries have commercially launched mobile HD voice services or are engaged in trials ahead of planned commercial introduction. In addition, the report notes that “operator investment” (i.e., trials and deployments) extend far beyond Europe, with services [...] The GSMA has released an official industry for HD voice in the GSM world, including UTMS and LTE.
According to the GSMA web page on industry logos, the HD Voice logo is “designed for operators and vendors to market and promote HD Voice capabilities on networks and products.” There are a number of technical details spelled out [...] Telstra has added two new mobile phones, one exclusive (whatever that means these days), to its HD voice lineup – the HTC Sensation and Sony Ericsson Xperia neo. HTC’s Sensation is an Android phone with a 4.3 inch qHD touchscreen with a resolution of 540×960 pixels, 1.2 GHz dual-core Qualcomm Snapdragon processor, 8 MP back-facing camera, Android, [...] In a report released on March 9, the Global mobile Suppliers Association (GSA) (www.gsacom.com) declared more handset manufacturers are shipping mobile phones with HD voice activated as default. Phones listed in the report with AMR-WB (Or W-AMR, as the new marketing-speak term appears) turned on from the factory include Nokia C3, C6, C7, E7, N8 and X3, [...] HD Voice News hates to re-hash other people’s blogs, but will make an exception this week for Mobile World Congress. From Barcelona and assuming we’re reading the piece correctly, Quentyn Kennemer of Phandroid is reporting that all LTE phones will have support for AMR-WB and wideband calling over LTE; i.e. VoLTE will be wideband from the get-go. [...] HD Voice News Editor-in-Chief Doug Mohney will be arriving in Las Vegas for the 2011 International Consumer Electronics Show (CES, for the rest of us) on Tuesday morning, January 4, 2011 and departing on the evening of Friday, January 7. Between those times, there’s all kinds of “stuff” going on and the number of slots for [...] France Telecom (www.france-telecom.com) is counting up its mobile HD voice deployments, along with listing all the compatible mobile HD voice handsets it has in stock and letting slip where it expects to deploy service in the near future. As already noted by HD Voice News in several forums, Orange Mobile HD Voice is now available in [...] The 2011 International Consumer Electronics Show (CES – www.cesweb.org) is around two months away, and I already am pricing plane tickets and hotel. This year’s CES will be a significant show for the HD voice community, even if the show doesn’t have a lot of rah-rah for VoIP or wideband. Hopefully “The Media” will figure out this [...] Fresh off of its announcement of the CSR8000 platform and its support of HD voice, CSR (www.csr.com) has launched the BC6145. The Bluetooth audio platform is designed for mono/lower cost applications. The ROM-based device is designed to support HD voice call quality A2DP music streaming, bi-directional noise reduction, and ultra-low-power wind reduction (WNR). BC6145 is available immediately [...] |
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