See, this is the kind of thing that makes no sense to me.
Why should I have to purchase anything extra when the hardware already
supports the function. I have no idea why apple has refused to enable
the fm radio capabilities on the iPhones, and I can't figure out why
folks think it's a good idea to buy an extra piece of hardware to
accomplish the task. Apple did the same thing with the earphone jak,
claiming it's old technology, but what it really is (for them at least)
is more harware sales, because now if you want to use headphones on the
new iPhos, you need to purchase another component to make it happen.
This is just stupid, and doesn't make any sense, and doesn't do anybody
any favors. The fm radio falls in the same category. It's stupid not
to enable it, it doesn't affect anything, and so what if it doesn't work
as well as a stand-alone radio, it still works, and could easily be used
as a selling point, like a lot of the android devices do. I liked the
fact that my android tablet had fm capabilities, and used it a lot. You
can't use that capability on IOS unless you jailbreak the phone, and
that is (once again) just stupid.
On 10/2/2017 4:42 AM, Dane Trethowan wrote:
Actually I’m surprised at just how many phones there are out there on
the market without FM radio facilities.
So the older phones have capabilities for FM radios? Up until now
taken any talk of that with a grain of salt given just how much other
rubbish we hear about iPhone these days.
As for a phone not having a FM radio being a critical point? I’m not
sure I go along with that.
FM radio sets are so good and cheap these days so why not just go out
and buy one, at a fraction of the cost of a new iPhone and surely -
anyone preparing an emergency kit whilst travelling - would have some
sort of radio on hand though I’m not sure I’d pick just a FM set,
possibly something with multi bands such as a cheap and reliable World
Band radio which can be held in the hand.
I can assure you that carrying one of these would be well worth it
given the FM radios in phones - given my experience - just don’t
perform too well, yep for local stuff there okay but - if disaster
strikes - you may need something better than that.
Anyway its an interesting discussion and the whole idea of FM radios
in phones hasn’t been abandoned, take the Nokia 3310 and the other
Nokia Android phones which are around now, I believe they all have FM
radio facilities.
Further to this - if you believe it absolutely critical that your
iPhone have a FM radio - then a dock connector can be purchased to
carry out this task.
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