Samsung afield didn’t add the appropriate API to apart devices.
Users with apart Samsung Galaxy S9 accessories in the U.S. should be able to accept to FM radio afterwards the abutting amend to their phone. While we don’t apperceive aback the amend will arrive, we do apperceive that Galaxy S9 accessories with archetypal numbers SM-G960UI and the SM-G965UI will accept the update.
NextRadio, an app that lets users tune into FM stations application their smartphone’s congenital chip, accepted the account to Android Police. While carrier-locked Galaxy S9s are able to use the app to admission the phone’s radio dent already, Samsung afield did not add the appropriate API to apart devices. It said that it initially accepted the botheration with Samsung a brace of canicule afterwards the Galaxy S9’s absolution aback users began to address actuality clumsy to use the NextRadio app.
Earlier in the year, NextRadio partnered with Samsung to accredit the FM dent on its approaching devices. The aggregation had ahead done a agnate accord with LG. Certain accessories from added brands additionally assignment with the service, although not consistently on every network. You can see a abounding account of phones that abutment NextRadio here.
In a apple of alive music and downloadable podcasts, FM radio seems to accept been abandoned by your boilerplate smartphone user. However, abounding smartphones absolutely accept an FM radio receiver — aloof one that isn’t apart on abounding devices. While the adaptable industry says that this is because there isn’t abundant appeal for FM radio on smartphones, others say that there are abounding allowances to be had from FM radio. They point to radio actuality potentially advantageous in a crisis aback cellular networks become blocked and that alert to the radio uses beneath array aback compared to alive application data.
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- Users with apart Samsung Galaxy S9 accessories will anon be able to accept to FM radio.
- Carrier bound accessories are already able to admission the phone’s FM radio chip.
- The appropriate API will be added by Samsung in the phone’s abutting update.
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