Awesome. I have longer wondered why I could get advanced noise rejection technology on a phone but no where else. I hope these chips are (or become) cheap enough to get dropped nearly everywhere.
Ever wondered why some Smartphones are so crazily expensive? Several cleverly placed mikes and an audio processor are one of a few reasons for that. If you want to have decent audio quality on a laptop a decent mic placed in a good position paired with proper amping and AD conversion goes a long way already but for some strange reason only Apple manages to deliver that out of the box. Go figure.
Getting people to think they are buying into some sort of elitist, snobby club doesn't come cheap. Gotta please the shareholders and pay for advertising and R&D somehow.
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Rocket321 - Monday, September 9, 2013 - link
Awesome. I have longer wondered why I could get advanced noise rejection technology on a phone but no where else. I hope these chips are (or become) cheap enough to get dropped nearly everywhere.Daniel Egger - Monday, September 9, 2013 - link
Ever wondered why some Smartphones are so crazily expensive? Several cleverly placed mikes and an audio processor are one of a few reasons for that. If you want to have decent audio quality on a laptop a decent mic placed in a good position paired with proper amping and AD conversion goes a long way already but for some strange reason only Apple manages to deliver that out of the box. Go figure.flyingpants1 - Monday, September 9, 2013 - link
Smartphones are expensive because they are sold at 70% margins.nathanddrews - Tuesday, September 10, 2013 - link
Getting people to think they are buying into some sort of elitist, snobby club doesn't come cheap. Gotta please the shareholders and pay for advertising and R&D somehow.Death666Angel - Tuesday, September 10, 2013 - link
+1tuxRoller - Tuesday, September 10, 2013 - link
Are the drivers open? I'd hope so since the driver shouldn't contain much in the way of serious ip for something like this.extide - Tuesday, September 10, 2013 - link
Yeah you would think that everything IP related would just be on the chip and the drivers would just do I/O.. We can hope!MH - Friday, September 27, 2013 - link
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