Nice
Now when can we have it on our current crop of phones?
Remorseless German boffins are patting themselves on the back after winning a prize for their efforts developing "MP3 for phone calls". The prize in question is one of the three 2011 Joseph von Fraunhofer awards, given annually to the top researchers across Germany's mighty Fraunhofer Institutes. One of the best known of …
It's not the latency, it is what happens when data goes missing. When you start compressing things and lose a small part of the data it results in big problems. If you've even opened a corrupted JPEG you'll know what I mean.
DAB is proof that slight errors in the signal result in a annoying garbled noise.
Currently you get a choppy audio which is better than clicks, pops and other annoyances.
Bit like digital terrestrial TV. You drop out and your picture goes funny till the next new frame is sent. Making it shorter between frames makes it recover faster but increases the amount of data.
Current phone data is sent in encrypted packets anyway. Lose a bit of an encrypted file and you have nothing anyway.