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CALL quality
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Funny... I have the 5 now on Verizon in manhattan and think the call quality was huge step down from my 4s... Wondering if I should take a chance on the 5s
Call quality is dependent a huge deal on the carrier you're with, and the market you're in. Verizon in NYC? Yeah, good luck getting decent call quality.
The phone, however, is VERY capable of high quality audio. Make a FaceTime audio call, and you'll hear the difference.
The phone, however, is VERY capable of high quality audio. Make a FaceTime audio call, and you'll hear the difference.
The way Verizon's compression algorithm works is dynamic based on load. In areas that have very high congestion (frequent in NYC on both ATT and Verizon), the amount allocated to each voice call will be much less than somewhere with no congestion at all.
Put your VZ phone on 3G-only, and do a speed test. If you are getting very slow (for evdo) speeds, the sound quality is going to suffer as well.
Likely the audio quality is not stunning on VZ in NYC.
Since about the mid to late 2000s, when they started forcing the vocoder bitrate down to accommodate higher call volume and data usage. I can always tell who's on a CDMA phone by the talking-with-marbles-in-their-mouth way that the audio sounds.
Lol... All my other phones seemed clear.... Do u live in NYC?? Which service do u use??
I live in SF and find the call quality better on the 5S then the 5. No hissing and it just sounds clearer. Im on ATT.
No hissing at all while on a call?
Weird, I tried more then a few here in NY on at&t and all have the hiss. Wondering if it's the phone hardware or the carrier?
None but I did have it time to time with previous phones. It will be interesting to see if it is based on location. Maybe some areas are using the HD voice?
Verizon doesnt use 3G for voice, it still uses 1x. I switch to 3G, and data is terribly slow, but voice is still very good. LTE at home give me a signal strength of -110 dBm, 3G around -95dBm and voice around -85 dBM.
They degrade your quality depending on how many people are using the network. That's why some people say Verizon LTE in a populated city is like Verizon 3G in the country - in terms of speed. And same goes for audio, but instead of speed it is audio quality
