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Re: Trade in our phones or carry a separate FM Radio?
True, i guess my defintion of modern doesnt equal yours. If it doesnt have a 120hz oled, 1440 plus resoultion, snap dragon 865 plus, and 6gbs of ram it isnt modern to me. I mean minus the lg one all those other phones your talking about would be beat by older phones. My razer phone 2 with a 120hz led screen would beat all those phones minus the lg. So i dont call low end phones with gsrbage cpus worse than snap dragon 835 which is 4 years old a modern phone. The snapdragon 845 in the s9, note 9, and others would demolish all those low end phones. So one modern phone the lg 60 has a fm radio.8Visto2likes0ComentariosRe: Trade in our phones or carry a separate FM Radio?
mr_l84 wrote: itdefbechill wrote: Why not just buy a fm radio, they are dirt cheap. I just bought a lg boom for 100 bucks. You could buy a even cheaper one. Amazon had one for 20 dollars. Why would you want a old garbage phone that is slow, has security leaks, will never be updated, no oled, for a 20 dollar radio. Because I don't want to carry around two devices that could be one. I already have enough stuff in my pockets as it is. Wallet, phone, keys, and now a radio…That's more pocket bulge and another device to keep track of. What will almost certainly happen is that I'd end up going through all the trouble of carrying this device around for in case of emergency and the day I forget to grab it or I lose it or I just get plane sick of carrying it around will be the day I need it. Sure, having a smartphone with all it's nice modern features is, well, nice. But the main reason for having a phone IMO is for safety. I want to be able to call someoneif I have a flat tire, if my kid gets injured and needs an ambulance, or to find out what the weather's like or the road conditions or how's the pandemic going or if there's a terrorist attack going on or if the forest is on fire or if the dam broke or if I was supposed to buy apples or bananas or both. And having an FM radio is a safety feature. Any list of common items to have for emergencies will always include a radio. Imagine if they took away the flashlight ability on smartphones. Would you then carry around a flash light just in case you might need it? So yes, I may carry around an FM radio for now since we got our Pixels not that long ago. But it's kind of a pain. They do take away the flash light on some cheaper phones. If you are traveling doesnt your car already have a radio? It sounds like you are saying you are away from your house, and your car for long periods of time. Most new phones wont even work with a radio because of no head phone jack. I honestly cant find a phone with fm support even the librem 5 a open source phone, with linux and removeable parts doesnt have one. I cant even find some one who made a usb c fm radio adapter. If you are that worried though fm radio isnt very helpful in emerngy anything. You want to get a satilite modem for your car, and house. No ones gonna give you helpful information over fm. In your emergency senerios the person running the station would most likely flee. You also cant communicate with it, you would be better off with a police scanner, and a antenna on your car, that would pick up all local chatter for miles, and give you a better idea of what is going on around you. They also make ones handheld, amd can be switched. I feel your pain though, i hate it when some one takes away a feature on something just because not every one and thier grandmother uses it. Its like the stupid front camera on a phone i dont want it, but since every one loves thier stupid selfies and camera calls i gotta have it. It just is in the way of the screen, and yep thats the oppisite, but if the front camera came unpopular, they would remove it. https://www.google.com/amp/s/www.slashgear.com/does-my-phone-have-fm-radio-inside-09471304/amp/ Thats the list of phones that can use fm radio, and they are all old. Which if you arent using your phone for like high end gaming, none of that matters at all. The Lg 5 is a nice phone. You can get that for 50 bucks. The note 3 is a nice one 2. 50 bucks for that one 2. Might want to stock up on a few since its clear fm radio is gone out of new phones.7Visto2likes0ComentariosRe: Trade in our phones or carry a separate FM Radio?
syaoran wrote: Most phones are capable of receiving FM broadcasts. It is usually the OEM's that don't provide the app or software to receive them. The only OEM I am aware of that purposely blocks devices from making use of the FM signal they receive, are Apple devices. In the Play Store, there are FM Radio apps that don't use data to stream you local radio. Perhaps give one of them a try to see if they get you what you want. Man most phones dont even have head phone jacks, which makes them not fm capable. No modern phone has fm radio. All samsung phone from s10 to ultra 21 dont. The last tablet with a headphone jack was the s6 tablet. The new one plus dont have radios, liberm 5 no radio, google phones no radio as he says he has one, so most phones are not capable of fm recieving. The accurate statement is no modern phone has fm radio.8Visto1like0ComentariosRe: Major network issues on Note 20 ultra with T-mobile network and Cellspot
You realize right the cell spot works off your internet. If you have bad internet, or you live next to a bunch of people with tmobile, and bad internet its not gonna work. That cell spot shares your internet connection with every one, and they can travel quite a distance. When I had mine on the roof it went over a mile. I have a note 10 x2, s 20 ultra, razer phone 2, Sony Xperia, and a s9 and they all work fine. Mind you I have fiber internet and no one lives next to me. Adding in it isnt gonna work right if you have slow internet, and some one is using the internet. If you are maxing your upload or download speed of your isp, it is going to add 300 to 2000ms ping to it, adding in lte is already slow. My ping from my wifi 5ghz is 11ms, my ping from the 4g lte cell spot is over 40ms. My computers ping is 10ms. So if your normal ping of your internet is low end like satlite, bad cable, dsl, or any low end internet like that, then trying to add a cell spot isn't gonna work at all. Especially if other people connect to it, and you won't even know if they are connecting to it or not. Then add in anything some one is doing, say Netflix which if its Mac is like 28 mbps, YouTube can be around 15mbps. One thing you can do is go to settings turn on developer mode, go into those settings and make it so 4glte is always on. Also if you have a actual t mobile signal there what you want is a cell booster not a cell spot. T mobile doesn't give you cell boosters, they give you a thing that leaches your isp and turns it into a 4g lte wifi singal. A 5g cell booster will cost like 560 bucks for the low end one, if you want to cover an entire house you would need a more expensive one. My honest guess would be the note 20 is getting confused by which signal to hook to, so you would have to manually tell it in your settings.3Visto1like0Comentarios