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A comment on FCC asks Apple to activate the iPhone’s hidden FM radio to aid public safety.

Re:FCC asks Apple to activate the iPhone’s hidden FM radio t... by gumby on Thursday September 28, 2017 @05:15PM (#15360791)
What is wrong with Ajit Pai? Has he no engineering background at all? It's like complaining that not all the bolt holes in my car have bolts in them because the same chassis was intended for different models.

This headline could just as well be, "FCC asks Apple to use some un-connected transistors". There's more to a radio than the heterodyne or nowadays receiver module. Antenna design, amplifiers, etc...

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Re:FCC asks Apple to activate the iPhone’s hidden FM radio t... by donarb on Thursday September 28, 2017 @07:16PM (#15361567)
Like everything in this government, they recite news stories without verification. Pai refers to a Sun-Sentinel editorial that stated that all iPhones possess a software switch that could enable immediate use of the FM radio. From the editorial, "But Apple refuses to flip the switch that would let the iPhone work like an FM radio."

http://www.sun-sentinel.com/opinion/editorials/fl-op-editori...

Apple has stated there is no such switch in older phones and newer phones do not possess those chips.

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