VoLTE, or Voice over LTE, is the latest emerging wireless technology that will change how you use your iPhone to make calls. In the coming weeks, Verizon Wireless customers can begin to see what Advanced Calling 1.0 — HD Voice and Video Calling — can mean to their wireless experience when tightly integrated with their 4G LTE smartphones.
Video Calling is simplified when using VoLTE technology. The contact list in the phone clearly shows, with a video camera icon next to the name, who can receive a Video Call, and a tap or two on the phone starts the call so you can speak to friends and family face-to-face. Customers control Video Calls, easily switching to a voice-only call from a Video Call and back with a tap on the phone. The audio portion of a Video Call is delivered in HD Voice.
HD Voice and Video Calling work only when both people are in the Verizon 4G LTE coverage area and are using VoLTE-enabled smartphones from Verizon. The calling experience customers know today remains the same if one Verizon customer uses a VoLTE-enabled phone and the other doesn’t, or if a customer with a Verizon smartphone calls a customer of another carrier or a landline phone.
VoLTE is a standards-based solution that fundamentally changes the way Verizon will carry voice traffic on its network. It is an emerging technology that will work best with scale. Advanced Calling will be available across the nation’s largest 4G LTE network on a number of devices that will become VoLTE-capable with a simple software update.
More info about Verizon’s Advanced Calling 1.0 http://www.verizonwireless.com/wcms/consumer/advanced-calling.html.
MacDailyNews Take: Ooh, FaceTime à la Verizon. Whoopie!
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My understanding is that this will finally allow us iPhone users to make voice calls and use data simultaneously. Can someone confirm this?
Correctamundo.
Wonder if it uses you data plan bytes?
Yes, my data plan bites.
Bring it on I’m ready!
Using a VoIP app you could always do Phone and voice on Verizon, there are a number to choose from in the app store.
TruPhone works quite well.
Does it affect data usage the same as FaceTime always has? That’s the real reason I don’t use FT much more often. Don’t want to burn up my limit.
SteveJobs was correct when he forced ATT to bundle limitless data with the iPhone. To use the phone correctly it really is best to not even have to think about data.
sigh