Phones should have FM radio again

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• simon_greenwood@feddit.uk ⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago

  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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  • Balthazar@sopuli.xyz ⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago

    Yes they do, and it’s amazing to "tune the radio. Those wires are soo finicky you can hear high school physics!!! Not sarcastic btw. I really do enjoy those damned finicky cables xD

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• ChrisLicht@lemm.ee ⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago

  Why not make cases with FM radio built in?

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• brb@sh.itjust.works ⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago

  Why not just use internet radio?

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  • VonCesaw@lemmy.world [bot] ⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago

    what happen when internet go down

    radio win every time

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    • glad_cat@lemmy.sdf.org ⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago

      I stopped watching TV and listening to the radio a long time ago. I will never do that again even if the internet disappeared forever.

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  • CarlsIII@kbin.social ⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago

    Because the apps fucking suck

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• AndreTelevise@lemm.ee ⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago

  Exactly. Have that as an emergency option or a free substitute to streaming music and news. The more options there are, the better. Surely, this is not relevent for the US, where radio kinda sucks nowadays, and Billboard Top 100 are put on repeat, but in European countries, Middle East, Asia etc. this kind of thing is invaluable.

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  • a4ng3l@lemmy.world ⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago

    European country reporting; our radio offer sucks ass as well and has been for a while. There aren’t small niche stations on waves since it’s cheaper on the net. No clue how it is elsewhere but I don’t think it’s going to be better…

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• CookieJarObserver@sh.itjust.works ⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago

  If im not mistaken you can still get the channels, the app is just not pre-installed.

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• Usanam@lemm.ee [bot] ⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago

  It’d be better if it had fm transmiter, so you van turn car radio or normal old radio into a useful wireless speaker

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• Slagathor@lemmy.world ⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago

  Hell yeah!

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• pjhenry1216@kbin.social ⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago

  They'll never include it as it needs the headphone jack. Unless they expect a huge market for radio, that is big enough for them to offer a mea culpa and give back head phone jacks, it's never going to happen.

  Would people love to get headphone jacks back? I'm sure. But I don't see the market being there to get companies to give in on that.

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