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For a while now, a regular feature in our smartphone reviews has been comparison of smartphone voice quality on different devices, air interfaces, and codecs. Until recently, improving voice quality has been something of a secondary objective for wireless carriers, and improvements in voice codec efficiency has been used to increase total call capacity rather than improve cellular voice quality. Today however Sprint announced the introduction of its HD Voice initiative which will launch in conjunction with the HTC EVO 4G LTE. Our own Jason Inofuentes is at the event and will have impressions of the device soon, which is based around a 1.5 GHz MSM8960 dual core Krait SoC. For the HTC EVO 4G LTE, HD Voice consists of one part common mode...