Have that stuff looks like duplicatous audio reproduction technology and what’s in my pocket doesn’t sound nearly as good as that boom box likely does.
Also that thing in the right looks maybe like a radio and there are streaming emulators, but still no actual radios in most of our pockets unfortunately.
Some androids have fm radios and it uses the headphone cable as an antenna.
I had a Motorola that did it and I think my workphone has it too.
I recall my last phone didn’t need the headphones plugged in for the FM to work too bad it was super fragile causing the screen to shatter without getting dropped or touched durability aside I quite liked my old Motorola
That is cool if it worked without them. It’s too bad it’s not more common on phones. There is something cool about receiving radio waves and hearing what’s being said.
But last time I tried it, it was mostly commercials.
And here I am just enjoying a fun little gimmick
Weirdly, I’m pretty sure Qualcomm chips still include an FM tuner. Most manufacturers just decide not to enable it and hook up the antenna.
That would be a bad ass hack to enable on a modern phone.
I still have FM on my phone. Poco X3 Pro
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Great phone for the price imo. I’ve heard that a lot of people have got bootloops though, which is not so great
I have 8/256 version too so it’ll be long lived one for sure, since there’s kernel source code available and xda-developers community on the device is active
I’m running CrDroid on mine. Seems like a pretty good custom ROM with an active community. Really the only thing about custom ROMs that causes issues is Google with the PlayIntegrity stuff, so Wallet doesn’t sometimes work. There’s ways around that but it’s just annoying to have to do that. Oh well.
I had an Nokia, my last “featurephone” before I got my first smartphone, which actually had an FM tuner built-in. It used the headphone wire as an antenna as far as I recall. Quite neat, not that I ever really used it, but it was perfectly serviceable. And a great way of having music on the go in the days before streaming music was widely available.
One of my first smartphones could do that as well. I don’t pay for streaming services and I don’t have infinite data like most people seem to have, so I dearly miss that kind of feature. The corporate overlords have decided that free is bad.
One of my first smartphones, I don’t remember the brand, but it was a Chinese knockoff, even had a TV tuner, with a built-in antenna that retracted into the case. I had to stay in the hospital for a few days and it was great. This was back around 2010.
Pretty sure 3 sets of headphones aren’t in my pocket
They’re in your bum, aren’t they?
Its called a prison pocket so apparently they dont have 3 sets of headphones up their ass. Fucken weirdo.
I know this is a shitpost, but a lot of those things in the picture do the same thing etc: The boombox, the walkman, the CD player
I think the point is that the formats have basically been unified into fully digital formats. Though we still use Bluetooth speakers to replace boomboxes and audio stacks.
They all played music but they didn’t serve the same purpose, thus why I had all three. The CD player was for listening in my room, the boombox could be brought anywhere, and the Walkman was for privately listening on the go.
Actually they removed the FM radio
Not from every phone, when I was looking for a cheap phones, a lot of Chinese brands still had FM radio.
Yeah the cheaper phones usually still have it.
I could think of a lot of things I could use a little pocket guy for. Getting my phone when it falls through the crack between the cushion and the arm in the easy chair, for example.
TIL I have a vcr recorder on my pocket
There’s an app for everything!
Hmm, pocketable mech keeb? 🤔
Pocketable IBM model F keyboard sounds rad for typist (no pun intended).
Not the printer part of the old word processor/electric typewriter (not sure which it is.)
And now we are pining for the old days again.
Speak for yourself. I’m looking to spruce up the future.
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The freedom to carry your DRM free music tapes around with you and easily lend them to your friends is sadly not in my pocket.
☠️ Yo ho, yo ho…
