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Using this story to ask: is poor voice-call quality common with Fi? I'm using a Nexus 6P. This is my first smartphone and I'm totally happy with the device and
by philipkglass 9y ago
Using this story to ask: is poor voice-call quality common with Fi? I'm using a Nexus 6P. This is my first smartphone and I'm totally happy with the device and Project Fi for browsing, apps, texting, and tethering. But for plain voice calls the latency, dropouts, and "underwater" sounds are significantly worse than with my old prepaid feature phone, even when I see a strong signal. I had hoped that voice quality would get better (closer to Skype) when I bought a leading smartphone. I don't know if I should blame the service or the device. It's worse than laptop VOIP over DSL, my POTS voice line, or even a cheap feature phone circa 2010.
- wakamoleguy 9y agoIt could depend what network you are on behind the scenes. There are special codes you can use to switch networks if you are in an area covered by more than one. In general, cell quality voice should be similar to that of a POTS line. Better codecs can provide higher quality for VoIP, even on small bandwidth, but with "real" phones you are going to get the lowest common denominator.
- xythian 9y agoThis was my experience as well with Project Fi. Good data, bad voice. T-mobile and ATT based MVNOs have typically given me better voice service.
- blacksmith_tb 9y agoOne test would be to use gHangouts, Duo, Wire, etc. to make a voice call instead of the dialer app (so that you could compare voice-as-data with a regular call).