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Re:Turkey EARTHQUAKE – please keep 28.540 clear for communic... by shultays on Tuesday February 07, 2023 @03:10AM (#34690081)
My bet is countries having all kind of taxes, stamp fees etc when it comes to adding such features and phone makers not wanting to pay the fee. Or maybe it is a patent fee. Your device can support FM or can play radio? You need to pay 20 cents per device!
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Re:Turkey EARTHQUAKE – please keep 28.540 clear for communic... by seydor on Tuesday February 07, 2023 @03:16AM (#34690116)
No, it's just that apple disabled it first and many others blindly followed. My samsung s10 still has FM radio (and phone jack). It's also energy efficient
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Re:Turkey EARTHQUAKE – please keep 28.540 clear for communic... by xen2xen1 on Tuesday February 07, 2023 @09:09AM (#34692895)
Many phones had FM, but if you look the models for Verizon had FM disabled. The international versions had FM, AT&T had FM, Verizon didn't. They are also much more likely to lock their bootloader, and other anti-consumer things.
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