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		striking on Feb 19, 2017 \| parent \| context \| favorite \| on: FCC chief wants smartphones’ hidden FM radios turn... The FM receiver is very nearly always built into every phone processor. And support circuitry like that is trivial. Plus, FM receivers are much less power consuming than radio over data. My next phone will have an FM receiver.

duskwuff on Feb 20, 2017 [–]

The FM receiver is not "built into every phone processor". It is sometimes built into a separate radio chip. One such chip is the Broadcom BCM94343WWCD1: http://www.mouser.com/new/broadcom/broadcom-bcm94343wwcd1-mo...

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