ThunderBolt & Bionic to get VoLTE

[RichardClark]

In this video from MWC, Verizon reps cofirm that the ThunderBolt and Bionic will get VoLTE in addition to the Revolution:

VoLTE Demoed on the LG Revolution [MWC] [VIDEO] | Android Phone Fans

 

[MarksFX4]

Nice catch Richard. Lets hope that this push comes in the next few months.

 

[Green_Laser]

Great!!

 

[Mustang7303]

VoIP over LTE... I assume latency is manageable and there is a QoS in place to give voice priority, otherwise call quality will suffer greatly.

 

[RichardClark]

Low latency is a strong point of LTE and I can't imagine them even trying to implement VoLTE without QoS. There also is a lower quality codec available for fallback when data rates drop.

 

[htowngator]

Probably going to be a lot more important next year when LTE is more expansive and more people are on those phones.

 

[DolfanCole]

Gonna really suck for me since I'm not in an LTE area until at least next year.

 

[paulmike3]

In this video from MWC, Verizon reps cofirm that the ThunderBolt and Bionic will get VoLTE in addition to the Revolution:

VoLTE Demoed on the LG Revolution [MWC] [VIDEO] | Android Phone Fans

It wasn't as much a confirmation as it was them not interrupting the guy ranting. Panda tweeted last week that VoLTE was not on the roadmap for the TB.

Edit: proof - http://twitter.com/#!/black_man_x/status/36110932300013569

 

[Nitros7]

VoIP over LTE... I assume latency is manageable and there is a QoS in place to give voice priority, otherwise call quality will suffer greatly.

If I remember correctly this isn't VoIP but something like it being that LTE dose not have a voice channel like CDMA... I could be way off here but I though I heard that some where.

 

[htowngator]

It wasn't as much a confirmation as it was them not interrupting the guy ranting. Panda tweeted last week that VoLTE was not on the roadmap for the TB.

Edit: proof - Twitter

Yea he said "when launched".

It should support it eventually, but not for a while.

 

[DolfanCole]

Yea he said "when launched".

It should support it eventually, but not for a while.

If that's true, then that lends itself to being a software issue. Maybe custom ROMs or rooting can enable the feature prior to "official" support?

 

[paulmike3]

Yea he said "when launched".

It should support it eventually, but not for a while.

He meant when VoLTE was launched, not the TB. Not being on the roadmap means there are currently no plans for it.

 

[Edwill86]

wow good to know! makes the tbolt a little less future proof

 

[biff6789]

Someone explain this to me please: Why is this so desirable when blackmanx says the TB's battery dies in 4 hours when the 4G radio is turned on. Wouldn't VoLTE nuke the battery life of your phone??

 

[RichardClark]

Someone explain this to me please: Why is this so desirable when blackmanx says the TB's battery dies in 4 hours when the 4G radio is turned on. Wouldn't VoLTE nuke the battery life of your phone??

Perhaps, although there would also be some power savings because the 3G radio could be turned off when in an LTE area. Honestly, I don't think VoLTE is that big of a deal for phones launched this year. Verizon wants to get VoLTE rolled out as a part of their plan to migrate all traffic on to LTE. They won't be able to fully do that until the LTE rollout is 100% complete and that won't happen during the next two years.