@[email protected] to [email protected]English • 9 months agoPhones should have FM radio againwww.spacebar.newsmessage-square378fedilinkarrow-up11.21Kcross-posted to: [email protected]
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minus-square@[email protected]linkfedilinkEnglish23•9 months agohigh end ones dont even have headphone jacks for starters
minus-squareHildegardelinkfedilinkEnglish1•9 months agoGoogle realized they aren’t good enough at software development to prevent their phones from randomly stopping audio playback when using headphones, so they removed the plug for them in hopes no one would notice.
minus-square@[email protected]linkfedilinkEnglish3•9 months agoThat’s a weird claim. Do you have a source?
minus-square@[email protected]linkfedilinkEnglish2•9 months agoMy source is that I made it the fuck up
minus-square@[email protected]BlinkfedilinkEnglish1•9 months agoHere is an alternative Piped link(s): My source is that I made it the fuck up Piped is a privacy-respecting open-source alternative frontend to YouTube. I’m open-source; check me out at GitHub.
minus-square@[email protected]linkfedilinkEnglish-3•edit-29 months agoThat’s not a big deal. There are many external DACs that work great. And there are many DACs built into phones with headphone jacks that are awful.
minus-square@[email protected]linkfedilinkEnglish7•9 months agoMy old Motorola X4 used the headphone cable for its FM antenna. The radio didn’t work without it.
minus-squareChouxFleurlinkfedilinkEnglish1•9 months agoI can’t think of a phone I’ve owned that hasn’t done this, even as far back as my O2 Ice
high end ones dont even have headphone jacks for starters
Google realized they aren’t good enough at software development to prevent their phones from randomly stopping audio playback when using headphones, so they removed the plug for them in hopes no one would notice.
That’s a weird claim. Do you have a source?
I think it’s a joke
My source is that I made it the fuck up
Here is an alternative Piped link(s):
My source is that I made it the fuck up
Piped is a privacy-respecting open-source alternative frontend to YouTube.
I’m open-source; check me out at GitHub.
That’s not a big deal. There are many external DACs that work great. And there are many DACs built into phones with headphone jacks that are awful.
My old Motorola X4 used the headphone cable for its FM antenna. The radio didn’t work without it.
My current Moto G works the same way.
I can’t think of a phone I’ve owned that hasn’t done this, even as far back as my O2 Ice