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Why was this not a thing during the GB's heyday? Lack of hardware that small / advanced? Or simply no market fit? I mean this was during the walkman / portable
by Cthulhu_ 2y ago
Why was this not a thing during the GB's heyday? Lack of hardware that small / advanced? Or simply no market fit? I mean this was during the walkman / portable CD player era, I recall having a small portable radio around then as well.
No gameboy though, those things were expensive! Relatively anyway, like 4x our birthday budgets.
- Grazester 2y agoI would have totally bought this in the 90's.
- buildbot 2y agoWhat was the smallest consumer FM radio back then? I think it would have been quite the engineering challenge, given that the author notes it has very fine pitch SMD components and a QFN package too. According to https://www.utacgroup.com/wp-content/uploads/2019/09/UTAC_QFN_Data_Sheet_RevB_Nov_2015-1.pdf https://www.utacgroup.com/wp-content/uploads/2019/09/UTAC_QF..., QFN came about in 1998, 9 years after the gameboy! Though a gameboy was pretty heavily integrated for the time too, so maybe they could have done it.
- oidar 2y agoWhy don't modern smart phones have FM tuners is the real question.
- mikewarot 2y agoMy cheap-ass Motorola G Power (2021) has an FM tuner in it... but it uses the earphone cord as an antenna... and thus barely works. It's my understanding that most smartphones have both a GPS receiver and FM radio embedded in them.