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12th Jan 2010, 00:00
http://dvice.com/assets_c/2010/01/500x_nexusonereview_7-thumb-550x364-31840.jpgAmid all the blather about technical problems (http://www.pcworld.com/businesscenter/article/186577/nexus_one_complaints_mount_honeymoon_is_over.html) with the Google Nexus One superphone (http://dvice.com/archives/2010/01/its-official-go.php), there's one nugget of information that bodes well for its future: It's a great-sounding cellphone. Behind that superior sound is the Audience A1026 voice processor (http://www.intomobile.com/2010/01/07/audiences-a1026-voice-processor-chip-ensures-superb-sound-on-mobile-phones.html), picking up sound from two mics and reducing noise in a way similar to the best noise-canceling headphones (http://dvice.com/archives/2008/02/review_sony_mdr.php).
Finally, someone starts paying attention to the horrible sound quality of all cellphones (http://dvice.com/archives/2009/05/shift-cell-phon.php). But making the handset sound better is just the beginning of solving this problem. As lame cellphone providers continue to attempt to figuratively squeeze a basketball through a garden hose, highly compressed audio can't get much worse.
Let's hope Google's and HTC's audio-improving innovation will lead the industry into high fidelity cellphone sound in the near future.
Via Gizmodo (http://gizmodo.com/5445610/why-calls-sound-so-good-on-nexus-one-the-audience-a1026-processor)
More... (http://dvice.com/archives/2010/01/google-nexus-on-1.php)
Finally, someone starts paying attention to the horrible sound quality of all cellphones (http://dvice.com/archives/2009/05/shift-cell-phon.php). But making the handset sound better is just the beginning of solving this problem. As lame cellphone providers continue to attempt to figuratively squeeze a basketball through a garden hose, highly compressed audio can't get much worse.
Let's hope Google's and HTC's audio-improving innovation will lead the industry into high fidelity cellphone sound in the near future.
Via Gizmodo (http://gizmodo.com/5445610/why-calls-sound-so-good-on-nexus-one-the-audience-a1026-processor)
More... (http://dvice.com/archives/2010/01/google-nexus-on-1.php)