In this video I did a quick little Sunday-evening experiment with 2G interference, because I noticed my old Razer Kraken headset mic (the older model) was picking up some really weird modem noises. I used an iPhone 4S on VOXI (since 3G’s been shut down and it’s basically stuck on 2G now) and recorded the audio in Audacity so you can actually see the waveform freaking out. Even before I called the phone, there was already “stuff going on” in the graph, which I thought was pretty interesting. I then called the iPhone, kept the phone on silent, and tested what happened during the call with both ends muted. Weirdly, it didn’t always blast interference the whole time—there were moments where it calmed down, then you’d get little bursts again when cancelling and re-trying. After that, I forced my Galaxy S23 into 2G-only and tried loading a chunky page (YouTube) just to see what happens. It was slow as hell (because… 2G), but it still loaded, and the mic still picked up interference—just way quieter than the iPhone 4S. My takeaway: old 2G modems can be loud and nasty near audio gear, and newer phones seem to handle it more quietly, even if the data speed is painfully ancient.