Recent content by cb474

Yes, I am quite aware of that carriers and manufacturers engage in a lot of hand waving PR speak, which can make it hard to figure out the technical details. But I don't see the value of adding personal speculation on top of that. It just muddies what was already muddied. I was trying to provide...

No I don't think so. There's no presumably here. That's something you're adding that's not in the report. What the report says, based on Apples explanation, is that it is the native wifi calling in iOS8 that makes it work on T-Mobile and will make it work on AT&T. Perhaps you think the news...

Thanks for the info and clarifications.

If you look at my posts above and the other people discussing the issue, no one was talking about Google enabling this feature for the Nexus 4. The questions was, if wifi calling (and VoLTE) was baked into the Android OS at some point, would it be possible for custom ROMs and other mods to...

As Jeremy8000 says, the Nexus 4 does have an LTE radio. It just was not enabled when the phone shipped. But it is trivially easy to enable. It used to require flashing a single zip in recovery that updated the radio and enabled LTE, which was pretty easy. Now there's an app in Google Play...

It's not just an assumption. For what it's worth, the GSMArena article reports, supposedly based on information directly from Apple, that this is how the wifi calling is enabled in iOS 8 (by being natively baked in). So sure, Apple could hypothetically integrate some carrier specific piece of...

Okay, but the article I link to in GSMArena specifically says that the reason wifi calling in iOS 8 works with T-Mobile is because of the way it is natively baked into the operating system. And it clearly suggests that it is this same native capacity in iOS 8 that will allow it to work with wifi...

Thanks for the link. Hmm, I wonder if that means that at least some custom ROM or something like that could get it working on the Nexus 4?

Yes, I understand that there are other services that provide wifi calling which would work on any phone. People have been talking about Google Hangouts. Skype is an obvious other example. There have been many app based services like this for a long time (as well as of course Android's native...

Is this unlikely? Now that iOS supports wifi calling natively, why wouldn't Android potentially do it also? And given that other carriers (like AT&T) are moving toward introducing wifi calling, it would make sense to solve the problem at the OS level. It doesn't seem like something that would be...