|
|||||
|
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 [...] Huawei’s (www.huaweidevice.com) new phones and tablets boast quad-core processors, Dolby sound and hot video, but do they support AMR-WB and HD voice? It’s not in the press releases. The Huawei Ascend D quad “Pegasus” clames to be the fastest quad-core smartphone in the world and it certainly has the hardware to support HD [...] 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 [...] At Mobile World Congress, NVIDIA is touting its Icera 410 LTE modem chip in VoLTE and SRVCC HD voice applications. Like Ericsson and Qualcomm, NVIDIA will be demonstrating seamless handoff of calls between an LTE network to a circuit-switched WCDMA 3G network – and vice versa – using Single Radio Voice Call Continuity (SRVCC) [...] The Globe and Mail newspaper recently published a piece on Canadian wireless carriers deploying HD voice. It’s an interesting piece for several reasons – including the fact that Google’s search engine didn’t highlight it. “With HD voice wireless firms dial up call quality,” published on February 10, does a discussion on mobile services vs. [...] Next week at Mobile World Congress, NXP Software says it is going to demonstrate “software-based HD voice enhancements” with its LifeVibe solutions. What exactly that means is anyone’s guess, because NXP does not provide further detail in its press release here and does not supply anything more than a generic press contact for [...] Continuing to fight its uphill battle against AMR-WB, G.722, and other HD voice codecs, Fraunhofer IIS showcasing AAC-ELD, the “Full-HD Voice” codec. Fraunhofer is conducing a live demonstration of the Full-HD Voice experience using Android mobile phones incorporating the AAC-ELD codec, connected over an LTE network provided Fraunhofer HHI. AAC-ELD operates at bit-rates comparable [...] Austin, Texas-based Callvine (www.callvine.com) has rolled out a new iPhone app that includes support for HD voice using G.722.1 and conferencing through TurboBridge (www.turbobridge.com) As is typical, HD voice on the iPhone app is supported via Wi-Fi connection. Other HD voice features include free voice recording. The app also provides live conference controls, [...] Ixia has announced a new VoLTE testing product it will demonstrate at Mobile World Congress at the of the month. The new test application will load into the IxLoad solution to enable mobile operators to measure voice quality end-to-end from the cell tower through the core network.. Operators will be able to compare and [...] Swisscom (www.swisscom.com) has announced it will turn up HD voice on February 1, 2012. It joins Orange Switzerland in offering mobile HD voice service in the country. In today’s press release, Swisscom says it has the best UMTS coverage in Switzerland (93 percent) so customers can make HD voice calls “almost anywhere.” Customers need [...] |
   |
||||
|
Copyright © 2012 HD Voice News - All Rights Reserved Powered by WordPress & Atahualpa |
|||||
