Comment by callalex
3 years ago
I hope you realize you are describing dial-up internet? I could see having an automated dialer integrated with the OS do a decent job of masking the set up and tear down time of the connections, but it would have even slower data rates than the days of landlines, because cellular audio quality is much, much, much worse. And more importantly the jitter is significantly worse. Even sending faxes over cellular, or even wired VoIP fails regularly and that is an even slower data rate than would be acceptable for dial-up internet.
Also I haven’t looked it up but I assume the battery life of the pine phone while on a phone call is at most a few hours, compared to days for an active LTE connection.
It’s a funny thought experiment though.
Yeah, true. They've made some pretty impressive perceptual voice codecs that take very little data, and using that as the carrier for transmitting data would eat into that quite a bit more. Though, I find steganographic methods quite fascinating and often catch myself pondering ways to exchange data privately where efficiency is a small aspect of the overall goal of the communication channel. I suppose "thought experiment" is a good description.
The most effective/efficient way to do E2EE voice is definitely to use an app that supports voice and transfers via the data channel.