"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.