[Marcus10110]

I would argue that analog FM radio has a pretty bad user experience, and I completely understand a manufacturer not including it because of that. The audio quality is usually poor, it's location and environment sensitive, and the system for distributing and the RDS text is slow to update, and often incomplete.

[rcthompson]

I generally agree with you that FM radio is not a very good user experience (except during emergencies, when it suddenly becomes incredibly useful). But that doesn't mean I get to tell other people whether they want it or not. Enabling the FM radio tuner chip doesn't have to affect the user experience at all for users who don't want to use it. The carrier doesn't have to include an FM radio app pre-installed. Users who want FM radio can install an app for it.

[dandelany]

Pretty bad user experience was after Hurricane Sandy, when I was holed up in my office (evacuated from my home) with no electricity or Internet, but a fully charged phone that I couldn't use for anything but games, even though valuable information was being broadcast constantly on a frequency that my phone was perfectly capable of receiving.

[mreiland]

Everyone understands the limitations of FM radio, it is absolutely not a user experience issue for phones to enable this.

[ethbro]

I would counter-argue that if there's an FM receiver in your phone, there's no reason you should be listening to analog FM radio. I can't imagine they wouldn't also support modern digital FM signals.