Sprint hypes HTC EVO 4G LTE sales starting at 8 a.m. ET on Friday, May 18

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).” [...]

Leap/Cricket getting lots of CDMA 1X Advanced; will HD voice be there?

At CTIA’s show this week, Leap Wireless was underlining its commitment to CDMA 1X Advanced technology.  The company plans to have the HD voice-enabling tech in all of its new phones, with a bunch of 1X Advanced models coming out in the second half of 2012. But no word if it will use the [...]

Sprint prices “future HD voice capabilities” HTC EVO 4G LTE at $199.99, available May 18

In conjunction with CTIA this week, Sprint (www.sprint.com) will make the HTC EVO 4G LTE (HE4L) on May 18, with preorders started on May 7.  The phone will cost $199.99 with a new line of service, upgrade and two-year service agreement (before taxes).  It is now framing the phone for its “future HD voice [...]

D2 Technologies and GCT team for new VoLTE reference solution

D2 Technologies has announced its latest OEM partnership, this time with GCT Semiconductor.  D2 will provide its mCUE 4G converged communications client to be combined with GCT’s GDM7240 single chip full-band FDD-LTE.

GCT’s GDM7240 supports all LTE frequency band classes and bandwidths. D2’s mCUE, highly integrated and optimized for Android OS, provides a [...]

Editorial—Covering HD voice since 2009 (Thank you Forbes & Jeff Pulver).

There’s a lot of U.S. buzz about HD voice this week, thanks to Sprint’s mid-week announcement (Maybe that’s why they kept asking if I was going to attend the product rollout) of the HTC EVO 4G LTE.  (HE4L? HE4GL?).  

I didn’t believe it would be Qualcomm — yes, I confess, I heaped scorn [...]

Sprint boasts HD voice in 2012, HTC 4G LTE as “First HD Voice-capable” smartphone in U.S.

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.

The HTC EVO 4G LTE has Android 4.0 with HTC [...]

KPN tweeting up HD voice with Sony Xperia S handset giveway

Having declared HD voice operational on its network, it appears KPN is doing more than sitting on its laurels.  A look at tweets using the #HDvoice tag shows almost the exact same tweet coming from three different users over the past week.  It doesn’t hurt that the carrier is offering a chance to win [...]

KPN declares mobile HD voice service permanently available.

Netherlands-based KPN has declared its pilot of mobile HD voice over, and the service permanently available on its entire UMTS / 3G network.

A blog posting on KPN’s website says network quality and the new technology were both closely monitored.  With a noticeable improvement in sound quality, KPN decided to make the technology permanently [...]

Glensound Electronics mobile HD voice presentation at BVE UK broadcaster show

UK-based Glensound Electronics recently touted the wonders of HD voice for broadcasters at the BVE show (www.bvexpo.com) in London.  The company has passed along a copy of its Powerpoint presentation in Adobe Acrobat format  for review and sharing.

You can find the file here, and Glensound provides the following description–

HD Voice Presentation by [...]

IDG News spots HD voice at Mobile World Congress

“More Phones Are Getting HD Voice,” by Mikael Ricknas of IDG News is now making the top of the search engines this moment.

The story notes the proliferation of HD voice support across a range of GSM networks around the world and handsets – plus  some annoyance at Apple for not getting on board [...]