Your Phone Has an FM Chip. So Why Can't You Listen to the Radio? | WIRED - 0 views
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Luciano Ferrer on 10 Aug 17"Every smartphone in the world has an FM tuner built in. But here in the US, just one-third of them actually works, even though the Federal Emergency Management Agency says radio can save lives in an emergency. "We know that if Internet networks or cell phone networks go down, FM still works so long as you have a battery to turn the device on," says agency spokesman Rafael Lemaitre."