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I'm in the UK and I have an iPhone. How do I do this?
by geocar 10y ago
I'm in the UK and I have an iPhone. How do I do this?
- zenexer 10y agoAs the article says, you don't: Apple seems to have an incentive not to enable/support it. Regardless of their reasoning, they're not commenting on the matter.
- OJFord 10y agoiPhone may or may not have one, or may be locked just as it is in the US. I've never owned one. On Android though a majority have a built-in FM radio app, and more available to download on the Play store. You could have a look in the app store (make sure it's not lying about being FM and using your data) but if not maybe it's only possible if you jailbreak, or not at all.
- vertex-four 10y agoAs a fellow Brit, I've never seen a smartphone that does FM - though my feature phone does.
- OJFord 10y agoSee https://play.google.com/store/search?q=fm%20radio&c=apps https://play.google.com/store/search?q=fm%20radio&c=apps
- vertex-four 10y agoAll of those apps are not actually FM radio apps - Android does not have a standard API for accessing FM radio. The apps you linked are actually just misleadingly named Internet radio players that only play from stations that also broadcast over FM. Any phone which has FM radio will only be able to access it through an app distributed with the phone. Apparently Sony-Ericsson have some phones which have such a thing? Samsung might've done in the past, but not with their current flagships.
- pjmlp 10y agoBoth the S3 and S4 do support FM radio. As does the Windows Phone I own.
- vetinari 10y agoSony-Ericsson doesn't make phones since 2012... Sony does, and their models do have the FM tuner.
- mtreis86 10y agoMoto G 2014 has FM, with headphones as an antenna. The new version is supposed to work with it as well.
- zyx321 10y agoThere are a few "true" FM radios hidden in there, but each works only on select devices, and most of them require root access. Just a fun trivia fact ;)
- pbhjpbhj 10y agoInteresting, Brit here too. It's the second or third feature I looked for when buying my current phone (Acer) - camera, good battery, radio. http://www.gsmarena.com/results.php3?nYearMin=2013&chkFMradio=selected&sAvailabilities=1&idTouchscreen=1 http://www.gsmarena.com/results.php3?nYearMin=2013&chkFMradi... shows about 2000 phones made in the last 3 years with FM radio that are available to buy; I selected "touchscreen" to loosely limit to smartphones.