EMGSM
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I forgot about the HTC M8 with the boom sound, I actually had one and the sound was amazing, but nothing Samsung has put out, touches the iphoneI never carried an iPhone so although my wife has one her notifications just sound like bells so I never noticed. God knows the iphone and Pixel have huge bezels. If people don't demand decent sound we'll never get it. HTC used to make some really nice sounding phones. I think some had stereo speakers. IMO one good speaker is better than 2 tinny ones though. One of these companies should consult with Bose.
Exactly. Complaints are getting ridiculous. My s7 edge speaker is fine. The s8 + will be more then loud. I donr need bass on a phone speaker. Lol.It's much better than my v20 and better than my note 7. I don't expect to have stereo quality sound out of a single speaker on the bottom of a water resistant phone. If you have realistic expectations you'll be pleased.
It's an improvement over the S7E. That having said, it's still not great. As far as I understand, part of the issue is maintaining the IP68 standard. The S7E utilized some design of wire mesh that had such small spacing, the capillary action of water would prevent it from passing through, but the trade off was a muffled, underperforming speaker.
That's what I've heard/read too. But it's still not clear to me why the iPhone 7 manages to have such loud speakers while achieving an IP68 rating. My wife's iPhone speaker knocks the socks off of mine. I understand that they implemented stereo by also using the earpiece speaker for audio. Seems like something Samsung could have implemented as well...
Why can't u blame them? Apple and LG managed to have better sounding speakers and so have HTC and all of them are water resistant tooIt's the same exact quality as the S7. Honestly sounds pretty terrible for a flagship, but then again you can't blame them because it's water resistant. Now the regular S6 had a great speaker because it wasn't waterproof.