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Cellular Phone Forum / Providers / ATT Wireless / May 2008Sound quality????
Is there a particuler ATT cell phone ith good voice quality? >Is there a particuler ATT cell phone ith good voice quality? That will only get subjective answers. Your sound quality also depends on ambient noise, and where you are relative to Network Signal strength and useage. Compared to years ago all models cell phones can give good quality, the last thing a cellular carriers wants is unhappy customers wanting to return their new phones. (Which you can do with no penalty for 30 days with AT&T) Sound quality was often an issue in the past with analog phones. > Sound quality was often an issue in the past with analog phones. I find quite the opposite- certainly backgrond noise and static could be an issue depending on signal level, but the actual fidelity (quality) was much higher with uncompressed analog FM than with the cram-even-more-calls-on-a- single-radio-channel digital codecs used today in GSM or CDMA. I remember selling a pair of analog bag phones to a local radio station in the late 80s. They used them for live remotes with a gizmo that bypassed the handsets and let them plug their mixers right into the phone hardware. The 8KHz bandwidth was more than sufficient for good FM quality voice back to the studio as long as the call went cellphone-to-cellphone (that's why they bought two) and didn't touch a POTS line. (The music was actually spun by a DJ back at the station- the on-air personality at the live remote site just pretended to mess with discs and tapes for effect.) Even at the $0.25-0.50/minute cellular ran in the late 80's, it was _far_ cheaper for the station than leasing a broadcast-quality hardline for a remote broadcast that would only run a few hours. > I remember selling a pair of analog bag phones to a local radio > station in the late 80s. They used them for live remotes with a gizmo [quoted text clipped - 8 lines] > than leasing a broadcast-quality hardline for a remote broadcast that > would only run a few hours. The stations are STILL using analog FM back to the studio from the remote: http://www.martielectronics.com/hierarchy/secondary.php?maj=201&sec=210 This box into a portable VHF or UHF antenna on a stick, depending on your remote radio license, and you have broadcast quality FM sound from any point within radio range of the station. Stations have high Marti receiving antennas, high gain omnidirectional stacks up the tower. Radio Electronic News Gathering (ENG) still uses these powerful FM transmitters to link on-site news and remote broadcasting to the studio for transmission......great fun and VERY profitable for the station, remotes. I once interviewed Siamese twin boys, joined at the waist facing each other that had to walk sideways, LIVE, on a radio remote from the local fairgrounds on WOKE AM-1340. What showmen they were as teenagers promoting their sideshow. The station owner was a big wheel in the Exchange Club who ran the fair. We promoted all kinds of stuff with these remotes. They still do! The station owner, an ultra-conservative member of the John Birch Society, one of its wheels, too, was horrified until it was over...(c; The next day I interviewed the guy riding the motorcycle in the big barrel...LIVE while he was riding! Great fun, remotes. > Sound quality was often an issue in the past with analog phones. Nonsense. AMPS was FM and had the same "quality" as your car radio's FM band, unless your signal level was real low, just like your car radio. Digital has always sucked! CDMA is sampled at either 8 Kbps or 11 Kbps making music on hold sound like sh.t! If AMPS had a decent signal to noise ratio, you couldn't tell it from direct landline audio. Digital phones sound like crap because of the ultra-low, save-my-bandwidth encoding/decoding resolution being so awful. You can't hardly find an internet stream sampled at 8 or 11 Kbps, even just voice! Wanna see what I'm talking about? Call someone on a Sellphone and listen to them. Then, call them on Skype THROUGH the sellphone data link. Skype sounds like a Red Label RCA symphonic recording at 15 ips on 1" tape compared to the sellphone's awful codec. > Is there a particuler ATT cell phone ith good voice quality? As a new ATT customer I choose the Sony/Ericsson Z750a and was very impressed with the sound quality. I have no comparison with other models. Maybe you can find information on Howard Forums or Phone Scoop. www.howardforums.com www.phonescoop.com
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