HTC & Beats Electronics team up for next wave of HTC devices
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- Anonymous
- 3RP
- 13 Aug 2011
Sun Down, 13 Aug 2011Quite subjective, but statistics did showed the N8 and othe... morei don't know what statistic said and i don't care. i trust only my ears: iphone 4, ipod touch 4, nokia n91 are the most powerful mobile devices and with the best sound quality i have ever heard. i tested hundred of models of mp3 and mobiles and i know what i am talking about. ipod shuffle 1st generation without any sound eq was also a superb piece of art, but it is gone
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- LaC
- 13 Aug 2011
Beats on HTC like Arkamys in Sagem, just a marketing gimmick to make the users buy those products, another technology like this is Samsung ICE Power by Bang & Olufsen.
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- PF5
- 13 Aug 2011
Anonymous, 13 Aug 2011at the moment, the most powerful device on headphones outpu... moreQuite subjective, but statistics did showed the N8 and other X/XpressMusic series from Nokia giving out a much more accurate audio output.
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- jZ@
- 13 Aug 2011
Agreed with previous comments. Owned the beats headphones before and they were garbage. They should've partnered with a well known studio monitor producing company
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- 13 Aug 2011
Anonymous, 13 Aug 2011at the moment, the most powerful device on headphones outpu... moreKeep dreaming. The iphone 4 no doubt best reproduces the original sound but it sounds flat. Just about any nokia xpress music sounds better.
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- IVx
- 13 Aug 2011
Officialy, this move means HTC has dumped Dolby & SRS. Bold move indeed but why pick Beats Audio? My experience with an HP Envy featuring Beats Audio did not impress me. A better bet is for HTC to opt for Wave Maxx Audio or Bang & Olufsen. Don't believe me? Try testing speakers from Dell XPS 15 and Asus N series.
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- vC1
- 13 Aug 2011
Did they consider Bose before saying Beats has a good quality?
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- KiJ
- 13 Aug 2011
Szadzik, 13 Aug 2011Beats high quality? Are you kidding me?...another 'know-it-all' kid...
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- Anonymous
- PxK
- 13 Aug 2011
i think htc should focus on camera and speaker loudness !!
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- 3RP
- 13 Aug 2011
at the moment, the most powerful device on headphones output is iphone 4. in the past was nokia n91. i hope htc will make a more powerful device then iphone 4 on headphones output
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- pdq
- 13 Aug 2011
Beats can be played by almost anything, but not anything can produce the good deep bass.
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- pdq
- 13 Aug 2011
High performance? mwhaha
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- ThS
- 13 Aug 2011
This really doesn't mean as much as people think. First off, carrying the "Beats" stamp doesn't mean anything in terms of internal speaker quality. I have an HP laptop with "Beats" audio, and the internal speakers + subwoofer sound like absolute crap. I even prefer the audio pumped from the single speaker of my wife's Samsung Galaxy S2 to my laptop speakers. I imagine it's supposed to pertain to the built-in sound enhancement software which is really nothing more than some glorified EQ presets to enhance bass and so on. I highly doubt the speakers themselves are of any higher quality than the ones used on non-Beats models, and I know for a fact the laptop uses the same audio chipset as do non-Beats models.
Honestly, when I first got my new laptop home I was excited to hear (for a change) some decent audio pumped from the speakers, and hoped that maybe the audio would be good enough for movies and music when not tethered to my external speakers. I was very disappointed. So much so, in fact, that I thought about returning the laptop. Once I got over that, and after a very brief google search, I found the settings in Windows 7 that allowed me tailor the audio to my liking. They sound better now... almost good enough to watch a movie in bed without an external speaker, but still not quite. Hooking up a single $20 portable speaker pod to the laptop still greatly improves the sound quality, and yes, even the bass.
Apparently the Beats moniker doesn't mean much for headphones either. I have a 5-year old pair of Sennheiser HD485's that I paid around $100 for. The sound they put out greatly exceeds even Beats' flagship over-the-ear headphones, which run around $400. Bottom line is, Beats audio means nothing in terms of sound quality. It's simply a wanna-be THX certification (only for music instead of movies), and it really only appeals to the younger, more fad-influenced generation. I wouldn't ever purchase another product with the Beats moniker... ever.
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- Anonymous
- vDR
- 13 Aug 2011
"HTC and Beats Audio join forces to make music the focus for future HTC devices."
There's more to it than that. More like a PR move, something that leans more on the political and psychological.
Samsung and HTC are like conquistadores on a foreign land (US). They are outsiders. They want to blend in.
It's the long-term effects HTC are looking for.
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- Phonegeek
- bJg
- 13 Aug 2011
Hope this works out fine. The only thing stopping htC now is the camera. Hope they team up with some other company for that as well...
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- 13 Aug 2011
htc hand set speaker and head phone sound is not good every htc set hed phone sound is low.
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- v0X
- 13 Aug 2011
n9 with dolby surround sound might be greater than htc with beats audio, but in the end, this marks an improvement for a rising company.. good luck htc! still, n900 rocks!
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- Anonymous
- HCy
- 13 Aug 2011
my biggest turn-of about htc devices is their horrible battery life rather that the low speaker volume or the subpar cameras,, so it is a good step forward -i guess- but they still have a lot of work ahead!
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- 13 Aug 2011
AnonD-542, 13 Aug 2011Ha ha ha ha ha ha......Beats???????? They just look good in... more+1 for mentioning Grado.
I have an SR60 and the sound is so good and the price is so affordable. It's audiophile quality cans for cheap and I like the retro look.
I also have the Monster Beats Turbine PRO (gold) and I bought it because of the lifetime unconditional warranty. They get to fix it even if I break it and the sound isn't bad. It's one of the best buds I've ever used.
http://www.monstercable.com/productdisplay.asp?pin=5466
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- qTt
- 13 Aug 2011
Do something, HTC, cuz the lame speaker on the Sensation simply won't cut it - for music, speaker phone or anything else.