FM radio for iPhone!, FM radio for iPhone!

Nobody said something like "it appears that Apple will" or "I heard that Apple is about to" or anything of the kind so I think that we are safe in regard of "Constructive feedback about product features is welcome as well." rule. Anyways if we were speculating anybody found guilty would already be moderated (this is based on my experience on this forum). Moderators here do a fine job at keeping posters in check.

But sometimes they let one slip through the cracks.

Kidding.

"There have been various smartphones with the same chip that offer FM, and they all are crap."

My Galaxie S3, purchased in Europe has the FM tuner activated and it is NOT crap. Very good reception and good audio quality.

The US version of the S3 does not have the FM radio.

Nope, crap compared to a real, dedicatedl FM radio receiver or internet streamed radio. Even FM in the Nano is garbage. The only use is in gyms that have FM tranmetters carrying TV audio.

I hope 1 dai iPhone will have a built in Radio. hehe

"Nope, crap compared to a real, dedicatedl FM radio receiver or internet streamed radio. Even FM in the Nano is garbage. The only use is in gyms that have FM tranmetters carrying TV audio."

Gosh I'm glad you informed me of this. I live on the Oregon coast with limited FM Radio availability. My town is about 40 miles from the FM broadcast station transmitter. FM reception on the Galaxie S3 is perfectly acceptable. Perhaps in your critical thinking it would be 'crap', depending on how you define crappy FM quality. The signal is full quieting in most locations within my house and inside the local coffee shop in my small town. Listening to music is delightful and by most people's standards, would not be classified as 'crap'.

I travel frequently on business and find myself often out of cellular range for streaming, but still within FM radio range. Often go to Europe where FM radio is still a big deal. That's why I bought the S3 there. BTW, in defense of your arrogant arguments on this thread, the S3 is physically larger than the iphone 5, which makes it much more suitable for RF tweaking in the design.

Oh, last but not least, I realize this is an iphone group. My business phone is the iphone 5, which I like very much. Both phones are great in their own way.

Did you get your Galaxie S3 in Europe? Because the US model supposedly does not have FM capability.

My town is about 40 miles from the FM broadcast station transmitter. FM reception on the Galaxie S3 is perfectly acceptable.

Wow!! Your magical S3 outperforms not only all other known cell phone/mp3 player FM radios, but most dedicated portable radios and even many desktop models.

the S3 is physically larger than the iphone 5, which makes it much more suitable for RF tweaking in the design.

Nonsense. The S3 is still far too small for an internal FM band antenna (FM band wavelength is much longer than cellular, WiFi, Bluetooth frequencies) and requires using the headset cable as an antenna. This makes reception highly dependent on position of the headset cable and precludes using a Bluetooth headset to listen.

This thread is such a hoot! I get my daily laugh from it.

It's a trollphrodisiac.

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"Did you get your Galaxie S3 in Europe? Because the US model supposedly does not have FM capability."

Yes, it was purchased in Europe. The European versions have the internal FM receiver activated. Not so with US models.

"Wow!! Your magical S3 outperforms not only all other known cell phone/mp3 player FM radios, but most dedicated portable radios and even many desktop models."

Do you enjoy being arrogant or is it just your nature? There is nothing 'magic' about any modern FM receiver having the performance I indicated.

"Nonsense. The S3 is still far too small for an internal FM band antenna (FM band wavelength is much longer than cellular, WiFi, Bluetooth frequencies) and requires using the headset cable as an antenna. This makes reception highly dependent on position of the headset cable and precludes using a Bluetooth headset to listen."

And to you I say, 'nonsense'. First of all, I said nothing about an 'internal' FM antenna or BT. I could care less about BT for FM. However, since you mentioned 'internal antenna', I have to wonder how much exposure you have to modern receivers. Aside from 'communications' receivers which I am involved with, there are consumer short wave receivers with internal antennas which give very impressive performance on the HF frequencies which require much longer antennas than the VHF FM receivers. I think you might be capable of doing the math. Or are you?

Finally, hopefully, when will you understand that most of us are quite aware that the liklihood of Apple activating FM reception in the iphone is near 0? It's a marketing decision based on consumer buying preferences in the US. It is also highly driven by service providers wanting to sell data plans. It is NOT driven by limited technology for fitting a functioning FM receiver in the device.

Just curious does the S4 use the headphones to receive FM waves?

Also since iPhone 5 (and most likely future iPhones) will not include FM reception would anyone happen to know if there are gadgets that will actually provide FM support to these devices (not streamed)?

Just curious does the S4 use the headphones to receive FM waves?

He claims to have a European S3, so how could he answer about an S4?

The fact is ALL FM radios, including cell phone types require an external FM antenna, and the only practical was to do that is to use the headset cable.

anyone happen to know if there are gadgets that will actually provide FM support to these devices (not streamed)?

What are the results of your Google/Yahoo/Bing search? You wouldn't have posted here without first searching yourself. Right?