As expected, we were quite happy with the call quality on the Galaxy S III.
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U.S. Cellular has the highest call quality and network satisfaction of any national carrier.
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Heavy use and power outages in the Northeast were stressing the network and hurting call quality.
That means in terms of call quality it's no better, or worse, than many of its competitors.
The receiving person heard no static over the phone and the call quality was similar to the router option.
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U.S. Cellular has the highest call quality and network satisfaction of any national carrier, along with a valuable rewards program that recognizes loyalty.
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Ooma delivers exceptional call quality and the reliability of traditional phone service at a fraction of the cost, in a sleek and innovative design.
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Call quality (including the elimination of echoes) is said to be improved in this build, and customers can now send SMS messages over WiFi.
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When an employee makes a phone call, there is no allowance for a lack of dial tone, or any detectable latency, or poor call quality.
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Initially, the call quality was merely bad , static-y and echo-y.
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The carrier says it will commercially launch the service, known as Voice over LTE or VoLTE, in 2012, in part to improve call quality for its customers.
While few were looking, Motorola has developed a smaller, more useful Iridium handset and is said to have also made software modifications that improved satellite call quality.
Call quality was about average -- recipients had no problem understanding us -- but we were told we definitely sounded like we were calling on a cellphone.
To see where all this could go, think about another failed Motorola-designed communications network, a phone-taxi dispatch hybrid with clunky phones, poor call quality and lousy customer service.
On the question of call quality: De La Vega says the biggest issue in San Francisco is that they need to replace omnidirectional antennas in the financial district.
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In fact, last year, a fellow technology reporter mentioned to me that one day his wife called him at his office, and he was astounded at the clear call quality.
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The survey of 4, 000 current customers measured satisfaction with call quality, company image, account management, initial activation, service plan options, and customer service, with Virgin scoring 751 on a 1, 000-point scale.
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First, through the router, the call quality was decent.
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As a result, for years the U.S. lagged behind Europe in mobile phone usage, and even today our poor call quality and frequently dropped calls can be blamed in part on this regulatory hodge-podge.
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Los Angeles and Silicon Valley, call quality was adequate, text service worked normally, and Web browsing and apps mostly worked OK, at my home, office and public Wi-Fi hot spots in airports and coffee shops.
But any cell phone user who grew up in the age of landlines can tell you that the sound quality of calls to and from cell phones is far worse than landline call quality was decades ago.
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Called UMA (Unlicensed Mobile Access), the technology is designed to provide better call quality indoors (where your cell shouldn't otherwise work, natch) by switching over from a weak cell signal to a stronger in-home WiFi signal.
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During a call the service monitors how fast data are going through the air and adjusts call quality so the video doesn't cut off when a network's load changes or someone roams to a new cellular tower.
Perhaps more interesting than the rankings, though, was the finding that customers of MVNOs (like Virgin) ranked their services higher in account management and cost, while direct services (like T-Mobile) fared better in areas like company image and call quality.
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Avid Skype video users on Windows Phone 8, now is the time to get your hair did -- HD video is now possible employing "higher-end" WP8 devices, such as the Lumia 920, HTC 8X, and Samsung Ativ S. "Lower end handsets" will have to settle for VGA video, though Microsoft says call quality across the board was improved in update 2.4.
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While size is the main focus, there are also a few other improvements being toted in the Sprint -- it sports a micro-USB port for charging (changed from mini-USB), a softer cable between the buds, an inconspicuous notification LED, enhanced call quality and the multifunction button has been repositioned to the top of one of the earpieces (the JF3's is on the outside).
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While the hardware wasn't what we'd call top quality, the low price point and performance of the Titanium line more than makes up for it.
Among the laundry list of flaws reported are this model's small, dim screen, barely acceptable MP3 and call audio quality, lack of even EDGE-speed data, sub-four-hour battery life, limited filetype support, and flaky Bluetooth connection.
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