Most phones have the hardware, but it’s disabled.  Sprint apparently enables it.
http://www.npr.org/sections/alltechconsidered/2015/04/16/400178385/the-hidden-fm-radio-inside-your-pocket-and-why-you-cant-use-it


From: CBB - Jay Fuller 
Sent: Friday, July 31, 2015 11:19 AM
To: [email protected] 
Subject: Re: [AFMUG] OT- Imagine,an FM reciever you can fit in your shirt 
pocket!


my 3g htc incredible had an fm tuner in it.
nothing since then

  ----- Original Message ----- 
  From: Bill Prince 
  To: [email protected] 
  Sent: Friday, July 31, 2015 11:02 AM
  Subject: Re: [AFMUG] OT- Imagine, an FM reciever you can fit in your shirt 
pocket!

  Most of them do have built-in FM tuners. Carriers disable them so they can 
charge for the data.


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On 7/31/2015 8:59 AM, [email protected] wrote:

    I never understood why smartphones didn't come with them in the first place.

    On Fri, Jul 31, 2015 at 11:56 AM, Chuck McCown <[email protected]> wrote:

      
http://www.techspot.com/news/61558-att-urges-android-smartphone-makers-enable-fm-radio.html?google_editors_picks=true

      Hmmm, I think I got one of these in the early 1960s...


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