In 2017, Mexico passed regulation that required all smartphones with FM chips to enable them
Now I've got in my head "I'm on a Mexican, radio..."
this post was submitted on 02 Oct 2023
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They should have DAB+ radio. Much better.
My car has DAB+ and it kinda sucks. In principle it's better, the audio quality is better and instead of static it decreases the volume when the signal degrades. But it's so sensitive to interference and when it looses the signal (or thinks it has lost it), it starts hunting and gets totally confused. Often it can't re-acquire the signal till I just hit the button to re-tune to the channel. Maybe it's just the radio in my car is bad (2016 Chevy, nothing special) or I live in a bit of a dead zone or something. I imagine if you don't move it would work perfectly, but when driving it's mostly annoying. Which is a shame, because a lot of stations are only on DAB+, not having the money for an FM license.
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Not long ago I decided to buy a radio just for emergencies. I guess having it in my smartphone would be better yes.
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A lot of posts in here complaining about shitty commercial radio. Do you all not have local radio stations? I love my local stations.
Local radio sucks.
It’s nothing but ads. I’ve tried listening to a couple of them and the music selection is horrendous bracketed by lengthy ads. Bad to worse.
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Considering when I use the radio in the car I might get 2 songs before 5 minus of commercials, no thanks. Audiobooks, podcasts, and PlexAmp all the way
it's not about the entertainment value, but rather news, weather and other information during emergencies when your cell signal might, and is more likely to, go to shit.
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I don't even remember the last time I listened to FM radio. I just don't like listening to the same 20 songs on repeat with annoying ads
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from what i recall almost every QCOM chipset has the circuitry baked in, it's just disabled. https://www.wired.com/2016/07/phones-fm-chips-radio-smartphone/
Yeah, a lot of smartphone chipsets still have an FM tuner, but it needs additional circuitry (e.g. a 3.5mm jack to use as the antenna) that most device makers don't implement.
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With all the blackouts I had these past 2 years, YEA PLEASE. Hell, I was a out to relearn how to make a homemade AM radio. Haven't done it in 28 years.
Mobile carriers are worried about "congested mobile broadband" right? Surely they'd want something like this implemented if it could cut down on peak usage and not have to force their hand to do that awful throttling they must hate so much?
Coming late to this part but Umidigi phones still do FM radio and don't even require headphones to be plugged in any more.
only time i ever used phone FM was camping. not often lately. car has fm but radio commercials assault my nerves, use mp3s on a stick or streaming w/$10/mo
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Certain phones have it, but use your wired headphones as an antenna while leveraging your Bluetooth.. In Japan they had phones with TV tuners
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Fun fact: almost every phone on the market has the hardware. It's just drivers/software that are missing (and, more recently, the antenna's been unavailable with the removal of the audio jack. The radio chip is still in there though)
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