LG Venus Cell Phone Review - Audio Quality
Though modern phones are increasingly crammed with features, their primary function should be making calls. As such, sound quality is important. Our testing hardware is a head and torso simulator (HATS), which is used by manufacturers in their own testing. Our software is a sound analysis program called
SoundCheck. This lab test tag team check out the quality of received and sent frequencies, and also measures the phone's side tone. To find out more about our methods, click
here.
Sound Receive Frequency Response (7.78)
The graph above depicts how the phone handles received frequencies. The blue line represents the decibel level at each frequency, and the red lines show where the blue should fall between. As you can see, the Venus tends to do a good job with received frequencies: the blue only crosses the red a bit at the very beginning and end. This being the case, incoming voices might sound a bit clipped. Most people won't notice, however.
| Cell Phone |
HTC Touch (on Sprint) |
Razr2 V9m (on Verizon) |
Samsung Juke (on Verizon) |
| Score |
7.44 |
8.28 |
6.89 |
| Received Sound Frequency Response Graph (click to view) |
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Sound Send Frequency Response (7.24)
This test measures the quality of your own voice, as heard by others. Again, the Venus's performance is in blue, and the limits are red. As you can see, the Venus didn't fare as well on this test as it did on the previous one. It will overemphasize your voice a bit in the middle frequencies and drops off sooner than it should. This means your voice might sound a bit tinny in the middle and the higher frequencies may be a bit muted.
| Cell Phone |
HTC Touch (on Sprint) |
Razr2 V9m (on Verizon) |
Samsung Juke (on Verizon) |
| Score |
6.56 |
7.34 |
8.37 |
| Received Sound Frequency Response Graph (click to view) |
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Handset Side Tone (9.02)
Side tone is how loud the phone plays back your voice through the speaker. We subliminally interpret this as how loud we sound on the other end. Therefore, if it's too loud we think we're shouting and if it's too low we start to shout.
We are currently experiencing some trouble with our side tone testing. In order to ensure that we deliver this review in a timely fashion we have decided to publish the review without this one score. Please expect this section to be updated shortly.
Update: We've worked out our problems and ran our side tone test. First, to clarify, so you can judge how loudly you are speaking. Our ideal score for side tone is -18 decibels. The LG Venus scored -18.98 decibels, which is pretty close to that ideal. You can see below that the Venus was only beat out in this test by the Chocolate and Razr2.
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