has announced the launch of Enhanced Voice Services (EVS), the moniker for what it calls a "true next-gen voice technology." Most wireless customers are only now getting a chance to check out the benefits of Voice over LTE (VoLTE), but T-Mobile claims that EVS pushes things further with improvements over VoLTE across the board.
In all, there are three main areas of improvements that T-Mobile customers can look forward to with EVS. :
- First, EVS improves voice call reliability in areas of weaker signal, which means the rare dropped call on LTE will happen even less frequently.
- Second, EVS provides even higher-fidelity calls than the HD Voice we were the very first in the US to introduce back in 2013. EVS does this with a broader audio frequency range, which translates to richer, more realistic-sounding voice audio.
- Third, EVS delivers all this more of the time and in more places. EVS works whether you're on Wi-Fi or the T-Mobile LTE network.
Perhaps the most interesting detail of all is that EVS should provide improved call clarity even if you're speaking to someone without an EVS-capable phone.
For now, EVS is only available on the , along with the and S7 edge. The G5 works with EVS out of the box, while the Galaxy S7 and S7 edge recently received a software update that enables the feature.
While the initial pool of compatible phones is limited, T-Mobile says it's hoping to enable the feature on seven phones by the end of the year.
