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Phones should have FM radio again (www.spacebar.news)
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[–] -2 points 2 years ago (2 children)

The components to make the phone able to decode FM radio take place. Which, in such small device, is valuable. If you really need FM radio for emergency situations, why not take a dedicated miniaturized FM radio receiver?

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  • [–] 15 points 2 years ago (1 child)

    Not sure if this is still the case, but in the past the FM radio functionality essentially came "free" as part of either the SoC or modem. Since it used headphone wires as the antenna, the death of the headphone jack pretty much killed any purpose for including it.

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  • [–] -5 points 2 years ago (4 children)

    There 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.

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  • [–] 5 points 2 years 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.

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