7.1 Introduction
Android smartphones offer amazing audio capabilities.
Long before the modern smartphone existed, feature phones of the 1990s only had the capability to play and record audio using very low-quality codecs. This limitation was mainly due to the lack of device processing power and the limited bandwidth available on the networks at the time. Feature phones at the time did not have the bandwidth required to support high quality audio.
Two major advancements placed us on the path for what would become today’s modern smartphones
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Advances in network technology: Digital network protocols progressed ...
