However, the SuperTooth Crystal's sound quality has a compressed, CB radio-esque quality to it that I don't really like. There's almost no noticeable clipping of the spoken words until the last few seconds, where things get just a bit choppy. I was able to notice the road and wind noise beneath the sound of my voice, but not in the pauses between words and statements. The SuperTooth Crystal almost splits the difference between the baseline recording and the BlueAnt S4's. Listen now: BlueAnt S4 call quality sample
Output volume is good and spoken words sounded natural with little to no clipping. The BlueAnt S4 does a fantastic job, almost completely eliminating the road and wind noise between words and only betraying a hint of background noise underneath the sound of my voice. Listen now: HTC Thunderbolt baseline call quality sample The recording below retains quite a bit of road noise and the spoken words sometimes exhibit a choppy, clipped quality. After suction-cupping the Thunderbolt to the windshield, I recorded an outgoing call using the smartphone's internal microphone. The phone used to test all of these speakerphones was my personal handset, the HTC Thunderbolt on the Verizon 4G network. How much of an improvement should you expect? I've recorded outbound calls from five speakerphones (and my test phone's internal microphone) to demonstrate.Īll of the recordings below were made on the same day in our CNET test car - the 2007 Chevrolet Aveo, one of the noisiest cars that I've ever driven - while doing 55 mph over the same stretch of US-101 just north of San Francisco in an attempt to eliminate variations in engine noise, wind noise, road texture, and cabin acoustics. Visor-mounted Bluetooth speakerphones feature more sophisticated microphones with noise and echo-cancellation technology located closer to your head, which can dramatically improve sound quality. I'm sure that you dislike repeating yourself to callers as much as I do, so let's look at how to improve call quality. For example, the built-in microphone can be less than ideal for canceling the levels of road and wind noise present in a car at highway speed, which leads to poor quality on the receiving end of your calls. However, when you get on the road in a noisy car, the phone's flaws are made apparent. This setting is usually good enough for an impromptu hands-free call in a quiet office.
Most phones sold these days have a speakerphone mode.
0 kommentar(er)
