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Phones should have FM radio again (www.spacebar.news)

submitted 1 year ago by corbin@infosec.pub to c/technology@lemmy.world

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[–] TropicalDingdong@lemmy.world 3 points 1 year ago

My phone has an FM radio.

I've listened to it in long international flights just to see how things change.

other than that it serves no purpose whatsoever.

I suppose it could be useful in an emergency but I'd bet just having cell seryqould fair better.

[–] simon_greenwood@feddit.uk 3 points 1 year ago (1 children)

This 2022 Nokia has an FM radio. I had a look at the app and it says 'Please plug in your headset to tune'. It's not impossible that the USB C port is wired so wired headphones plugged in through an adaptor act as an aerial I suppose.

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[–] Tathas@programming.dev 3 points 1 year ago (3 children)

So, what, we're just going to carry around USB antennas now?

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[–] espentan@lemmy.world 3 points 1 year ago

FM was switched off in 2017 (Norway), but a DAB chip would've been nice.

[–] 0x2d@lemmy.ml 2 points 1 year ago

low end MediaTek ones often do

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