Did you know that your smartphone is also an FM radio? That’s right; today’s smartphones have a built-in FM chip that gives them the ability to receive radio signals in your area. This means you ...

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Following hurricanes Harvey and Irma, Apple is facing renewed calls to activate the iPhone's FM radio, which the Cupertino company says is technically impossible. Federal Communications Commission ...

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Did you know that your smartphone likely has an FM radio inside? If you’re one of the two-thirds of mobile phone users who don’t have their FM chip activated, probably not—and that’s just how your ...

At the BES Expo in New Dehi, India, the Digital Radio Mondiale Consortium demonstrated DRM Digital FM reception on a mobile phone. According to DRM, no proprietary receiver technology was needed, so ...

A whole bunch of smartphones out on the market today have FM radio capabilities – but their owners don't know it. There's no real good reason for this lack of knowledge save the lack of advertising on ...

Some phones include an integrated FM radio for listening to live-broadcast FM radio stations. Some phones with this feature require that a headset be connected to use this feature, so that the headset ...

Nearly all smartphones sold today in the US, including the iPhone, have an FM chip inside their LTE modems. However, carriers and phone makers keep it switched off, probably for business reasons. Ajit ...