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The NPR One radio app costs me an extra $20 dollars a month due to high data usage. And NPR gets none of that cash. If my phone had user facing FM tuning I coul
by frozenport 10y ago
The NPR One radio app costs me an extra $20 dollars a month due to high data usage. And NPR gets none of that cash. If my phone had user facing FM tuning I could probably contribute directly to content creators.
I wonder if shutting down FM and replacing it with much more expensive mobile data is a conspiracy by cellular carriers?
- rtpg 10y agoAre you sure your phone doesn't have an FM radio? A lot of phones have it built-in (just need to have headphones plugged in for the antenna), but don't advertise it much.
- frozenport 10y agoBut without a custom rom it isn't exposed. This is part of the conspiracy by my mobile carrier to make me buy their hella expensive data plan.
- khedoros1 10y agoThe radio in mine is (in an HTC One A9). I almost never have headphones with me though, so it's not usually of any practical use to me.
- jtl999 10y agoPeople don't even reverse engineer baseband/FM radio chips in phones under the mentality that "it cannot be done." and other stigmas such as NDA's. Sickens me to no end.
- EamonnMR 10y agoThat's the one thing I miss on my old Xiaomi - it came with a ROM that enabled FM and even had a nice app for it.
- ac29 10y ago>The NPR One radio app costs me an extra $20 dollars a month due to high data usage. And NPR gets none of that cash. Subscribe to the NPR shows you like via a podcasting app (which will pre-download via wifi), and donate the $20/month to NPR.
- scholia 10y agoYou could buy a cheap Nokia or an MP3 player with built in FM radio for less than $20....