Your Phone Has an FM Chip. So Why Can’t You Listen to the Radio?
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#2What's going on with Wired? This page has an autoplay video ad below the article text and an anti-AdBlock full-screen subscription nagger that pops up a few seconds after page load.
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#3Wow, news to me.
News that people in the USA can't, that is!
I won't say it's a particularly common thing to do, but here in the UK you certainly can listen to FM radio on your phone, provided you plugin earphones to be uses as an antenna.
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#4What's going on with Wired? This page has an autoplay video ad below the article text and an anti-AdBlock full-screen subscription nagger that pops up a few seconds after page load.
Part of their war on adblockers. In the past the adblocker nag has popped after you scroll down, well an autoplay video will get you scrolling to find out where it is and blam they pop the adblocker. Of course none of that happens if you hit 'reader view' in Firefox, nice easy to read article.
Its one of the reasons I've stopped reading Fortune and Wired web articles.
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#5I miss having the FM Radio app in CyanogenMod on my Droid Incredible. It was hard to get good reception with the headphone antenna, but it was still fun to play with and use.
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#6What's going on with Wired? This page has an autoplay video ad below the article text and an anti-AdBlock full-screen subscription nagger that pops up a few seconds after page load.
No anti-adblock message with uBlock.
That video (assuming we're seeing the same one) seems to be a short Wired production; unrelated content rather than advert.
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#7This annoys me so much, here in Australia DAB (digital radio) is nerfed so much that the broadcast quality is significantly lower than FM so it's not even worth buying a nice, fancy DAB unit for your home HiFi.
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#8Wow, news to me. News that people in the USA can't, that is! I won't say it's a particularly common thing to do, but here in the UK you certainly can listen to FM radio on your phone, provided you plugin earphones to be uses as an antenna.
I'm in the UK and I have an iPhone. How do I do this?
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#9It's not free to design or sell, even if the audio parts used "have the capability". If Apple thought they'd sell more phones, they'd do it.
Back when I was fighting the good fight against Apple, MP3 player vendors kept adding FM (and eventually HD Radio) in the hope that it was what Apple users were missing... The radio industry liked that strategy too.
P.S. Headphone antennas are kind of shit.
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#10What's going on with Wired? This page has an autoplay video ad below the article text and an anti-AdBlock full-screen subscription nagger that pops up a few seconds after page load.
No anti-adblock message with uBlock. That video (assuming we're seeing the same one) seems to be a short Wired production; unrelated content rather than advert.
It was a (very loud) Kayak ad for me. What a blatant user-hostile move. Pathetic.
Oh well, Wired just got itself removed from my adblock whitelist (after only a couple weeks on it).