BBM Voice - how does RIM do it so well?
It's well known by now that BBMV has quite an amazing sound quality. Skype pales in comparising under the same circumstances.
So how does RIM do it? What's their ace up their sleeve? Where BBMV is crystal clear Skype would be very frustrating to use.
The conditions I used both in are this:
Skype: laptop on 1.6mbps speed wifi to iphone on 100mbps wifi 2000+ miles away
BBMV 9900 to 9900 mine on 1.6mbps speed, the other on 100mbps wifi speed 2000k miles away.
In these conditions you literally can't tell the difference between BBMV and a normal call.
Re: BBM Voice - how does RIM do it so well?
Originally Posted by
tdawg00 Is it a fair comparison, when Skype has a much larger user base thus needing to allocate its bandwidth resources to maintain a usable network worldwide?
According to wikipedia Skype is a peer protocol, so they don't have to allocate any of their own bandwidth to the media part of the call in the common case.