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You can use your phone as an FM/AM radio receiver. Tune to your local station.


Not true for all phones. I know I checked with at least one of my older phones (a Samsung Galaxy) and it could not do radio.

Edit: Checked: My current phone doesn't support radio as well.


Not all, not even most from the listings I looked at a few years ago. Only one of the three old Android phones I have supports it, and it's one without a recognizable brand (the other two are Samsung and LG).


I downvoted you because very few phones have AM and/or FM receivers. I've never owned a phone with one. None of the most popular phones have had them.


Can you do this on an iPhone? The first time I was in a Tesla, my initial thought was why can’t my phone tune into FM Radio.


First step is to plug in headphones to serve as an antenna. Then you're all set.


wow TIL Teslas don’t come standard with a radio, who do they think they are, Lotus? ;-)


I'm not sure it's what he said. Mine has a radio.


wow look at this guy, got the upgraded entertainment package with AM/FM radio!

(I kid, seems to be something that changes with the model year)



I assume you're talking about streaming the station over the Internet


No he or she is not, a radio receiver is not such a high tech after all and I think all of my mobile phones had or have that feature build in, even though I never used it (in some you would have to have earphones plugged in as a antenna)


I haven't had a phone with built in radio, but back in the late 0s I had an ipod with a built in FM radio, and it was the coolest radio I ever had. You could pause and rewind it like a tivo. I assume the radio on a smart phone would be about the same.


Do you live in the American Midwest?


Love performance issues like this, good read.


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