The Lumia 920 Call Quality is...

[ImmortalWarrior]

...absolutely amazing. I was just out doing some Black Friday Xmas shopping and had to call my brother to ask him a question about a gift. I was in the middle of a very busy and loud store at the mall when I called him. The call was so loud and so clear it was like he was right there. No jokes, I even asked him if he was doing something to make it so clear like using a Bluetooth headset.

There was no background noise at all from his end and it was crystal clear! I had just been talking to my dad on his Blackberry Bold and it was a drastic difference.

For the first time I have made a call from an L920 to another L920...extremely impressed.

 

[independentvolume]

I'm tickled pink that you're enjoying your Nokia Lumia 920 and find your call quality findings fantastically great.

 

[Ekin Koc]

Ok, this will sound made up but I find it even better when I'm talking to other people with iPhone 5 or Lumia 920 (I was testing my phone with a Nokia Store guy, did not get to call anyone with a 920 since then though.). Is there a new voice format or something that these new generation phones support?

 

[Etyrnus]

I've made calls while in my car, with the windows partly down due to the pre catalytic converter exhaust leak I have. Which makes my car sound like it is running open headers (loud as ****), and they had no problem understanding me.

 

[ImmortalWarrior]

Ok, this will sound made up but I find it even better when I'm talking to other people with iPhone 5 or Lumia 920 (I was testing my phone with a Nokia Store guy, did not get to call anyone with a 920 since then though.). Is there a new voice format or something that these new generation phones support?

There is some type of HD support but it has to be supported by the carrier and the phone.

 

[Etyrnus]

It has a pretty good noise cancelling mike near the headphone jack.

 

[Ekin Koc]

There is some type of HD support but it has to be supported by the carrier and the phone.

You are right, turns out iPhone 5 and Lumia 920 supports it (AMR WB codec) and my carrier also had it enabled since 2011:

As of April 2011, we have upgraded our 3G infrastructure to make it compatible with HD Voice (AMR WB) quality throughout Turkey.

Did not know it would make such a huge impact on sound quaility though. I love this

 

[dadueler]

What carriers?

 

[Ken Peffley]

i just a 920, the person on the other end say the sound is much worse than my Samsung Focus, first generation! Also, I've tried several times to a friend and he always
now gets an echo on his end. I also left a message for someone else, and listened to my message and it is somewhat muffled too. it is not clear at all like the focus

 

[jrdatrackstar1223]

Wish I had the Lumias you all received. I had two 820's and one 920, and on every handset people would keep saying "hello...?!" over and over and eventually hang up (whether I was receiving a call or making one). It was for these reasons I had to drop windows phone 8....