Front facing speakers revolutionary?

[Habiib]

I'll try to end my replies here. It think we are talking things or giving examples that are in no way srelated to each other. I'll elaborate below.

My Question:

With that said, my question is this: Is BoomSound a significant improvement (how it transmits audio) over a "normal phone speaker" (Yes or No)?

Your conclusion:

So no, BoomSound is not a significant improvement.

If your turd reference is an indication that smartphone audio technology is something that can never be revolutionary, since it is an inferior implementation by design, then..

So you're saying people still want displays like that? If people didn't want high resolution displays then why did phone makers spend all that money changing from ASCII text displays to what we have now? People weren't specifically saying they wanted more PPI, but that's inferred when they wanted better (i.e. higher resolution) displays.

No. I'm saying that I have strong doubts that during the earlier periods of smartphone development that people were wanting/demanding higher resolution displays. I don't know what an ASCII text display is(?). Also, I'm not seeing how wanting a higher resolution infers wanting higher PPI, unless you are talking about an uninformed buyer (higher PPI isn't synonymous with higher resolution).

TV's totally changed format between SD and HD. 720p wasn't revolutionary, it was just an incremental improvement over 480. However changing from SD to HD was revolutionary.

That could not have been revolutionary because there wasn't a transition from SD straight to HD (i.e., EDTV was in between).

..app stores, conversational voice recognition and touchscreensare revolutionary. They're a requirement for every smartphone that's at all successful. Slightly better sound from tiny little speakers isn't not going to be a requirement for every phone.

If you are not stating the above as an opinion, then I don't see how that rational works out. Touchscreens have been implemented in smartphones for quite some time. If you are including gesture-based interaction with the UI, then I think I get what you're trying to say. When did "conversational voice recognition" become a requirement (before or after touchscreens became a requirement)? I don't know what you are defining as "successful". I'm going to take a wild guess that whatever this "successful" is that you are taking about, references a time frame starting from today and going back 3 - 4 years.

At any rate I gained some insight about people's perspectives that differ from my own, from this thread.

 

[zacsaturday]

Samsung did, just not on a phone, but on a tablet (galaxy tab 2 10.1)(don't know if there are any others

They want space at the front for more important things and putting front facing speakers would make the Screen-to-Body ratio smaller.

HTC didn't come up with the concept of speakers that point at the user

the first to put it into a device with a touchscreen is the samsung galaxy tab 2 10.1 and samsung player.

but they just (for some idiotic reason did not put it into a phone) and now HTC are eating up all the glory.

They want space at the front for more important things and putting front facing speakers would make the Screen-to-Body ratio smaller.

No offense, but where have you benn living for the past few years, under a rock!? movies and games are now pretty much the most used thing in the phone, including the phone option itself.

sub-par HD display on all models until 2014, when Quad HD is put on android flagships, mouse sized displays, no freedom experience (really, it can't be beaten anywhere), specs that can be found on a Nokia Lumia 520 (which is £40/$70), VOICE ACTIVATION (not just while charging, anytime, anywhere), minuscule batteries to make way for ... what? bricks! etc. etc. do i really need to go on?

What is making the HTC One and M8 sell like crazy, then. not the OS, not the Specs, not the price.

I'll clarify. A halfway decent Bluetooth speaker system is a significant improvement over any phone speaker. So is a car audio system. The amplifiers are many times more powerful and the speakers are much larger. You can't accomplish either of those improvement in a smart phone so the improvements you can make to the sound a smartphone speaker can make are only minor. It's still a tiny little speaker with a tiny little amp that's feet or yards away from your ear, not inches like with headphones. So no, BoomSound is not a significant improvement. Polishing a turd still leaves you with a turd.

OK then, go buy a car, sit in it, connect using AUX and watch a movie. did i forget to mention that it costs about $20,000 for a car, also, when you succeed stuffing a car in your pocket, please do reply (maybe bring a recording of you trying (and failing) to lift a car into your living room or pocket, it will be funny to watch).