Sprint (www.sprint.com) has sent out a flurry of announcements this morning trumpeting the arrival of the HTC EVO 4G LTE phone at its stories around the country, including Northern California, Colorado, Massachusetts, New York, Miami, FL and the Washington D.C. area. The press releases all include a reference to “future HD Voice capabilities (1).” [...]
Sprint is playing up HD voice – both in its network and phone “capabilities” in the roll out of its latest HTC Evo. The HTC EVO 4G LTE will be available in “the second quarter” for $199.99, with pre-orders starting on May 7.
Acer is a name more associated with PCs and laptops and the dead netbook in my office. At Mobile World Congress (MWC), the company showed off a pair of fancy new Android phones, the CloudMobile S500 and Liquid Glow S330.
The CloudMobile has a 4.3 inch 1280×720 touchscreen display, 1.5 GHz Qualcomm dual-core [...]
Bucking the ARM trend, France Telecom/Orange has announced it will roll out an Intel Atom-based phone to customers in the UK and France.
The currently code-named “Santa Clara” will run Android and is based on Intel’s smartphone reference design. It includes an Intel Atom Z2460 processor, plus an Intel XMM 6260 platform for [...]
Out of the rush of new phone announcements coming out of Mobile World Congress, ZTE (zte.com.cn) has captured the essence of plugging HD voice early and often in its rollout of new mobile handsets targeted at worldwide markets.
Leading the pack is the ZTE Era, a 7.8 mm thick device incorporating NVIDIA’s Tegra [...]
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 [...]
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, [...]
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.”
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 [...]
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, [...]