SOUND QUALITY

[Marcool]

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Currently I have verizon with a v60s phone. I'm looking for a phone/carrier
combination that has the best sound quality. I'm in the NYC area so
coverage issues are not a problem, although I heard complaints about
t-mobile cutting calls off and some carriers going straight to voicemail
unexpectedly. IS tdma better than verizon's cdma when call volume is high?
I'm willing to trade features / price / some coverage areas for sound
quality.

 

[Guest]

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Actually you can get great sound out of the v60s (and other Motorola
CDMA phones) if you change the codec to 13k instead of EVRC (8k)

Go to http/phones.stevecrow.net and click on the Motorola phone
section to learn how to change the codec. It dramatically improves
sound quality!

Dave

On Tue, 19 Oct 2004 20:43:29 -0400, "Marcool" <marcool@verizon.net>
wrote:

>Currently I have verizon with a v60s phone. I'm looking for a phone/carrier
>combination that has the best sound quality. I'm in the NYC area so
>coverage issues are not a problem, although I heard complaints about
>t-mobile cutting calls off and some carriers going straight to voicemail
>unexpectedly. IS tdma better than verizon's cdma when call volume is high?
>I'm willing to trade features / price / some coverage areas for sound
>quality.
>

 

[Guest]

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You won't like TDMA or GSM in an urban area... I had more problem
making TDMA calls on AT&T in Houston than I did making AMPS calls on GTE
Mobilenet (did the side-by-side comparison). Half the problem was TDMA
(and GSM's) inability to deal with multipath distortion, the other half
was it doesn't deal with call volume worth a damn.

GSM will get random hiccups due to it having the constant need to change
towers, but not having the ability to do the handoff silently - expect
random half second outages in your voice calls.

If you're especially lucky, you'll get loud obnoxious tones while the
switching occurs.

JS

Marcool wrote:
> Currently I have verizon with a v60s phone. I'm looking for a phone/carrier
> combination that has the best sound quality. I'm in the NYC area so
> coverage issues are not a problem, although I heard complaints about
> t-mobile cutting calls off and some carriers going straight to voicemail
> unexpectedly. IS tdma better than verizon's cdma when call volume is high?
> I'm willing to trade features / price / some coverage areas for sound
> quality.
>
>

 

[Guest]

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I don't think that's true - I think that the tower tells the phone what
codec to use, and what you set is merely a suggestion.

Anyway, my new Audiovox 9900 sounds pretty good.

"Diamond Dave" <dmine45.NOSPAM@yahoo.com> wrote in message
news:8qdbn0daqv4nau602enr4rjt3b1h7ujbn6@4ax.com...
> Actually you can get great sound out of the v60s (and other Motorola
> CDMA phones) if you change the codec to 13k instead of EVRC (8k)
>
> Go to http/phones.stevecrow.net and click on the Motorola phone
> section to learn how to change the codec. It dramatically improves
> sound quality!
>
> Dave

 

[Guest]

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"Marcool" <marcool@verizon.net> wrote in message
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> IS tdma better than verizon's cdma when call volume is high?


Nope, should be the other way around... CDMA should be better able to handle
more call volume than TDMA, given the same number of towers, etc.