14 DAY TRIAL // Last month, Taiwanese mobile phone maker HTC Corporation unveiled to the world its latest Android-based flagship, the HTC One, set to become available for purchase in the coming weeks in various markets around the world with some new technologies packed inside.
Today, the company decided to share some more info on one of the features that this device will land with, namely its high-quality audio recording.
According to HTC, the great experience that HTC One can deliver when it comes to recording sounds is the result of built-in “dual-membrane” microphones, a feature present in no other handset on the market at the moment.
The mobile phone maker notes that today’s handsets use a “single-membrane” microphone, which focuses on high sensitivity, with impact on sound quality at very low volumes, and that they are not efficient when capturing at high audio levels either.
In a concert, for example, “this single membrane approach means high volume audio cannot be captured clearly (or isn’t captured at all) as the audio system will shut down the microphone when the pressure level gets too high,” HTC notes in a blog post.
“Whether you’re recording a concert video or trying to capture intimate settings, the last thing you want is distortion or hissing.”
However, with the BoomSound technology inside the new HTC One, users will no longer face this challenge, the Taiwanese mobile phone maker explains.
The two dual-membrane MEMS microphones included in the device were designed to focus both on high sensitivity and on high sound pressure at the same time, offering a far better recording experience, since each membrane serves a specific purpose.
“After the two signals have been combined, background noise is greatly reduced, which increases the overall sound quality of the recording. After all, no one wants to huddle around a phone to hear a distorted concert,” the handset vendor concludes.