Old SoC may have had this functionality
Modern SoCs still have it…
Further we’ve moved to Software Defined Radios in general… So it’s all programmable.
Comment on Phones should have FM radio again
Dremor@lemmy.world 1 year agoThere is no such thing as “free” functionality in hardware. Old SoC may have had this functionality, but it was at the cost of some die space, that has since been reclaimed by other function more useful to most users.
Saik0Shinigami@lemmy.saik0.com 1 year ago
stealth_cookies@lemmy.ca 1 year ago
Hence the quotations around “free”. Qualcomm isn’tgoing to tape out a custom chip without it for you just because you don’t want that block.
that has since been reclaimed by other function more useful to most users.
This was my uncertainty, do you know for certain that they don’t include FM functionality on their chips anymore or are you just guessing? The public facing documentation is not exactly detailed enough to tell for sure.
knotthatone@lemmy.one 1 year ago
No, but it’s so immaterial it hasn’t really been worth the effort to exclude it yet
Maven@lemmy.sdf.org 1 year ago
The functionality is, in fact, still there, and basically every phone with a headphone jack turns it on.