In recent years, we have seen how most manufacturers have eliminated, rather deactivated the FM chip from their devices. Television, like radio, do not go through their best moment due to the different streaming video and music services that we have at our fingertips and that they also prevent us from suffering the, on occasions, very long advertising breaks.
Some manufacturers such as Samsung and Apple have a reason other than to have a streaming music service. Samsung for a little over a year, no longer has it, so in theory currently you have no reason not to enable the FM chip of your devices, something that will begin to do in the terminals that are sold in both the United States and Canada.
The FM chip is integrated in all mobile devices available on the market since it is integrated into the mobile and wireless communication chip, making it an excellent tool to be able to be informed at all times when natural catastrophes occur in which mobile communications have stopped working. A few months ago the FCC urged Apple to enable the FM chip of all its devices so that in these types of events, people could have access to a means of communication and be informed, something that Apple does not plan for now because « collide »with its streaming music service.
As I have commented above, Samsung will proceed to activate this FM chip in all the terminals that it distributes in the United States and Canada, but according to him, it is because he wants to offer the NextRadio service through his devices, something that is perfect for him to also comply with the request that the FCC kindly made to all manufacturers a few months ago, after the last hurricane that hit the South of the country.
The ability to enjoying the radio on our smartphone only offers us advantagesConsumption being three times less than that offered by a streaming music service, it allows us to listen to local stations to be informed of what is happening near us, it hardly consumes data from our rate ... and of course it is the best way to be informed at all times when a natural catastrophe happens around us that cuts off all mobile communications, and therefore, the Internet.