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Re:Show HN: 1 Project. 1 Engineer. 1 Year by matttheatheist on Wednesday October 19, 2016 @12:21AM (#12741049)
Just lowered the price to $29 USD.
Re:Show HN: 1 Project. 1 Engineer. 1 Year by nostrademons on Thursday October 06, 2016 @04:05AM (#12650898)
Price point is way too high. I can buy a portable radio from Target for $10.

If it were just an app (no hardware) with a price point in the $5-10 range, I'd find it useful. Not sure whether that's even possible though. The existence of cheap competitors sets a ceiling on what you can charge for it.

Re:Show HN: 1 Project. 1 Engineer. 1 Year by matttheatheist on Thursday October 06, 2016 @03:57PM (#12655569)
I'd love to give them away for free. I'll see what I can do about the price though.
Re:Show HN: 1 Project. 1 Engineer. 1 Year by shadowfax92 on Thursday October 06, 2016 @04:28AM (#12650977)
Love the concept! But, with things like Spotify/App Music/Sound Cloud and many more streaming services, I think a very small population of users actually use radio.

[Suggestion] Can this have some application in Medical or SOS or listening to police scanner?

Re:Show HN: 1 Project. 1 Engineer. 1 Year by matttheatheist on Thursday October 06, 2016 @02:06PM (#12654633)
It picks up transmissions from 87.5 to 107.9 MHz.
Re:Show HN: 1 Project. 1 Engineer. 1 Year by anilgulecha on Thursday October 06, 2016 @03:36AM (#12650813)
This brings FM for phones without it? Don't most phones already have built in FM?
Re:Show HN: 1 Project. 1 Engineer. 1 Year by matttheatheist on Thursday October 06, 2016 @03:39AM (#12650824)
Exactly. Phones without FM capabilities can now listen to FM radio. It even works in "airplane mode", since you're not actually streaming anything from a server.

And by the way, most phones have the FM chip purposely disabled... forcing you to stream data from the internet.

But with this device, anybody can get FM radio.

Re:Show HN: 1 Project. 1 Engineer. 1 Year by anilgulecha on Thursday October 06, 2016 @04:09AM (#12650909)
Got it. This could be a US thing.. Asian phones almost all have this feature.

Also, your competition is probably a simple 10$ FM radio on aliexpress/amazon.

Re:Show HN: 1 Project. 1 Engineer. 1 Year by brudgers on Thursday October 06, 2016 @01:16PM (#12654190)
Clickable: www.enrad.io