CD-quality cellular phone calls finally arrive

Finally, someone has invented an upgrade to the phone call.

A German audio company has developed what it says is the world’s first CD-quality cellular phone calls.

German firm Fraunhofer IIS is demonstrating voice calls in stereo CD quality over a 4G network at the Mobile World Congress show in Barcelona.

The company says conversations now sound as clear and natural as if talking to someone in the same room.

(I think I speak for all of us when I say it’s about time.)

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