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I've recently returned from the British Grand Prix and resented the fact that my smartphone doesn't have a radio feature. Had to invest £10 in a cheap plastic thing they sold at the circuit, while it did the job, I thought smartphones were supposed to be an end to having to carry around single function devices, in favour of the all-in-one solution.
But Jot Carpenter, vice president of government
affairs for CTIA-The Wireless Association, resists
the move to turn on the FM chip.
At a NAB convention in Las Vegas this week,
Carpenter said there would have to be demand
by smartphone consumers for mobile carriers to
consider switching on the FM chip.
"What Americans really want is the ability to
stream, download and customize music playlists
to meet their personal preferences," Carpenter
said, according to the Las Vegas Review-Journal,
"and that's not what the traditional FM radio
offers."
https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=9395944
And a further 6 comments on this one:
https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=9396631
It would be interesting to compare this thread with those threads from 450 days ago to see if anything has changed in the HN community mind.
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It's strange to me to read a positive comment about terrestrial radio broadcast amid so many complaints about ad blocking on the web. I stopped listening to radio many years ago and now I have an irrational resentment when I hear car stereos blasting pointless, noisy ads at traffic stops. I always wonder what allows people to mentally tune them out rather than decreasing the volume until music resumes. This is in no…
Agreed. You don't realize how invasive radio and TV advertising is until you don't have it.
In some European countries you have to pay license for radio receiver. For phone with FN radio you would pay $25/year, that is lot of money with national average salary $8000.
I've recently returned from the British Grand Prix and resented the fact that my smartphone doesn't have a radio feature. Had to invest £10 in a cheap plastic thing they sold at the circuit, while it did the job, I thought smartphones were supposed to be an end to having to carry around single function devices, in favour of the all-in-one solution.
Um... carriers in US have any authority over hardware functions of people's devices? Why? What the hell?
More interesting would be getting the weather radio signal (not on the FM broadcast band, it's AM around 160MHz), and having the phone change which SAME code it's sensitive to as you move around. I know you are supposed to get an SMS or something whenever there is a severe weather event, but after a million amber alerts and a flood warning a few states away, that's the first thing I turn off when I get a new phone. I…
Apple isn't activating it because it "might undermine Beats One"? Oh give me a break. You can stream just about any FM station you want with apps like TuneIn Radio.
The investment in the network of users is so high, and such a massive profit factor, that there is no incentive to flip the FM bit, for the users. Since it will mean less streaming will occur (you're not using TCP/IP when you're listening to FM radio..)
Its Apple, jealously guarding its piece of the OSI-model pie, and us users getting screwed in the process. I, for one, would very much enjoy being able to use my phone for FM radio .. heck, I'd like to use it for local peer-to-peer communications too, but we know how hard-bound the radio is for that purpose ..
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I see the anti-adblock with my uBlock. Must be your filters. Edit: yep, I just activated the "Anti-Adblock Killer | Reek" filter and it's gone.
Strange, I have uBlock Origin and the Anti-Adblock killer | Reek, yet I still see the nag
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I'm in the UK and I have an iPhone. How do I do this?
iPhone may or may not have one, or may be locked just as it is in the US. I've never owned one. On Android though a majority have a built-in FM radio app, and more available to download on the Play store. You could have a look in the app store (make sure it's not lying about being FM and using your data) but if not maybe it's only possible if you jailbreak, or not at all.