Best Speakerphone on Cingular is...?

Originally Posted by wymi

I have tried almost all of the speakerphones available for Cingular and here is what I have found. In a basic no frills phone the Nokia 3120 has the best of the Nokia speakerphones. The next level for me was to the S/E Z500a, very good front facing speakerphone. I then tried an S/E Z520a, speakerphone on the back and way too low volume for me. I tried a Nokia 6102, again too low of volume for me. I tried a Samsung X497, too low again. I am now using a RAZR, but I have edited the gain tables for increased volume from the speakerphone, it is on par with the S/E Z500a now. I have read reports that the speakerphone on the S/E W600i is very good but have not had a chance to try one yet, thats next. The S710a is also suppose to have a good speakerphone.

Originally Posted by mokla40

Thanks for that detailed reply. I also had a RAZR, but Moto for some bizzare reason but the speaker on the back bottom of the thing so that everytime I held it in my hand or put it down on a desk the speaker was covered muffling the sound. Doesn't that bother you?

-Marc

Originally Posted by wymi

After changing the settings in the gain table for all the audio ouputs I have no problem at all using the speakerphone under any circumstances.

Originally Posted by mokla40

Would you mind sharing that info on how you did that or PM me if that's better for youi- I'd like to try that.

-Marc

Originally Posted by wymi

First step for me was to get Mobile Phone Tools 3.28 and a USB cable for the V3. I then installed MPT and started to get comfortable transfering pictures and ringtones back and forth on my phone. I then went to motomodders.net, signed up and downloaded P2KTools. I then read all the info I could find and asked a few questions from the helpfull members here(Thanks andyahs!), after that, opening the gain table settings and adjusting them was easy. I turned all the volume settings up from 01 to 03 and the volume for earpiece, speakerphone and ringtones are perfect for me even in loud environments. I did go higher at first with the settings, they can go to 08, but after a couple of tries 03 is fine. I got the USB cable and MPT from Ebay for about $12.00 shipped, worked perfect first time.

Originally Posted by mokla40

I've recently come over from VZW and am used to good quality speakerphones like the V60 series. I've been disappointed so far on Cingular:

1. The RAZR has it's speakerphone on the bottom back so you cover it with your hand every time you use it muffling the sound! (Moto seems to be doing this with other phones as well).

2. The Moto V551/557 has a terrible "round" speakerphone that's not loud enough even at the highest settings.

3. The Nokia's are too tinny at the highest volumes as are the LG's.

Yikes? What phone has the best, good quality, loud-when it needs to be without distortion, clear sounding speaker phone?

The only thing I've come up with so far as the PTT phones (because they generally have a better speaker phone anyway for PTT) and the ROKR which has excellent speakers but no features (oh- did I say, voice dial would be nice).

[As a side note, it seems to me that maybe Speakerphones are going the way of the car kit- Blue Tooth headsets seem to be replacing speakerphones as the important feature. Perhaps those of use who were 'raised' on speakerphones have to get used to going Spock. But how sad since both speakerphones and headsets both have their applications]