Comments on: Sound recording gets a knock – AMR audio codec confirmed

By: samsungomniahdkool

samsungomniahdkool — Mon, 25 May 2009 07:26:08 +0000

could some third party firmware adjust the audio recording?

By: Remco

Remco — Wed, 13 May 2009 12:54:21 +0000

Senseless !!! High-end video with low-end audio.
How very disappointing and a dealbeaker to me. I hope the guys at Samsung get their act together and up the audio recording quality for this very hefty phone before release.

By: Aaron Martin-Colby

Aaron Martin-Colby — Mon, 11 May 2009 16:26:54 +0000

Wow. That audio example was terrible.

This is certainly a serious consideration. Sigh. I figured this phone would have knocked the Nokia N97 out of the ring, and more and more little niggles keep popping up, e.g. LED flash, recording, sound quality, no HDMI, NO MULTITOUCH, plastic case, etc.

Man, I hope I don’t end up having to wait for the Sony Idou. My N93 is starting to show its age.

By: ZP..

ZP.. — Mon, 11 May 2009 01:16:46 +0000

Have they not considered uncompressed audio? It wouldn’t be a burden on the processor at all if Samsung did that.

By: shizzle

shizzle — Sun, 10 May 2009 21:10:26 +0000

For me AMR means a no-go for this phone. Real sad…. waited for so long thought it would be the perfect successor of my N82… but AMR why???? Thats horrible :@

If the cpu is the problem put one of these in ^^

http://gadgets.softpedia.com/news/Renesas-Helps-Phones-Perform-Full-HD-Video-Playback-And-Recording-2725-01.html

By: will

will — Sun, 10 May 2009 00:12:38 +0000

they should make some kind of boom mic that you can attach with a cord or something. with the hd vid it would be a beast

By: LetsMakeThings BETTER!

LetsMakeThings BETTER! — Sat, 09 May 2009 17:11:36 +0000

The audio quality of “dissapearing Omnia” is NOT AMR QUALITY!
It’s a marketing trick.

Here’s a sample of how bad AMR encoding is:
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=fQrDwL7JJQM

Please join the active discussion on the Samsung forum.

Help us make a difference! All samsung symbians record in crappy AMR 12kb/s while devices with identical specs from nokia record AAC/MP3/MP4 @ 128 kb/s.

The omnia HD can record much better! Make yourselves heard and don’t let it let you down!

By: omniahdmobile

omniahdmobile — Sat, 09 May 2009 16:59:46 +0000

“It seems that the main reason behind the move is to not stress the ARM CPU too heavily when recording HD video.”

its not the reason, because even D1 and VGA videos has that kind of Audio.. every samsung phone has it.

By: Skittles

Skittles — Sat, 09 May 2009 16:04:59 +0000

Not a big deal at all. If you really wanted to make a fancy home movie, you wouldn’t record audio from the same device you record video from anyway. Record it with a good microphone and combine it with the video later. For Youtube HD clips, and the like, you probably will not need any bigger boost in the audio department.

By: Chappas

Chappas — Sat, 09 May 2009 14:33:51 +0000

Hmm, that’s pretty unfortunate.
But if that video of the ‘disappearing Omnia’ was actually recorded using just the phone, the audio quality on that is acceptable for me.

It’s not like I’m planning to record any riveting dramas or anything, should be fine for what I’ll use it for so I’ll accept this in lieu of all the other features the phone packs.

Looking forward to your own impressions when you get the phone though, some samples would be great.

Not to tell you how to do your job but playing music in the background would be a good indicator of how the sound quality is for me, as most videos I make will be in the pub/ @ concerts and gigs etc.
Phil x