By Doug Mohney, on February 15th, 2011
Verizon Wireless (www.verizonwireless.com) is demonstrating a broad range of Voice over LTE (VoLTE) and HD voice capable gear in Barcelona at Mobile World Congress this week. We have updates from Quentyn Kennemer and Verizon Wireless.
Tweeting as @ogwilson, Kennemer told HD Voice News both the Motorola DROID BIONIC and the HTC Thunderbolt will support HD voice as [...]
By Doug Mohney, on February 17th, 2010
The GSMA (GSM Association) recognized France Telecom – nice someone did, since nearly all the media covering MWC media were frothing over Yet Another App/App Store — for its implementation of mobile HD voice.
France Telecom received the “Best Mobile Technology Breakthrough” in the course of the 15th Annual Global Mobile Awards during the presentation in Barcelona, [...]
By Doug Mohney, on February 16th, 2010
Ericsson is not taking a subtle approach to HD voice. The company, in league with Orange, is providing and promoting HD voice service across Barcelona during the Mobile World Congress event this week. It’s a move that might wake up some other network equipment manufacturers to the prospects of using HD voice as an opportunity for [...]
By Doug Mohney, on February 15th, 2010
While nearly all of the (so-called) trade press is drooling over Samsung intro-ing Yet Another Open Source operating system and Microsoft’s efforts to stop its phone OS from vanishing into oblivion, Business Week got it right: Voice still matters for mobile phones.
Plane old voice calls (POVCs?) still provide the bulk of revenues for carriers around the [...]
By Doug Mohney, on February 15th, 2010
IP communications software stack maker D2 Technologies (www.d2tech.com) announced its next generation of mCUE. The new software adds plenty of goodies for Android-based products (i.e. phones), including Skype interoperability, video call/chat, seamless call handover, cross-service conferencing and HD voice.
D2 says mCUE has also been optimized to enabled converged IP communications (i.e. deliver voice and video) on [...]
By Doug Mohney, on February 15th, 2010
France Telecom/Orange continues its steamroller push of mobile HD voice service at Mobile World Congress this week. The company says it plans to offer eight (8) mobile HD voice phones in the first half of this year and all of its handsets are expected to support HD voice by the end of 2011.
In an interview with [...]
By Doug Mohney, on February 11th, 2010
Several requests have come in asking about HD voice companies to look for in Barcelona next week during Mobile World Congress (MWC). Here’s a short list–
Codecs
VoiceAge (www.voiceage.com) – Did you say “AMR-WB”? VoiceAge has formally launched its patent pool for AMR-WB/G.722.2 and made the pricing more end-user friendly from what we can tell. Looks like the [...]
By Doug Mohney, on February 9th, 2010
On the rollup to Mobile World Congress (MWC) next week in Barcelona, Global IP Solutions (www.gipscorp.com) has announced a video chat/HD voice package for Apple iPhone mobile developers.
Coders can use GIPS VideoEngine Mobile to rapidly integrate real-time video chat or multi-point video conferencing into iPhone applications, resolving IP network issues such as delay, jitter and echo. [...]
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