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what features would you look for when choosing between flip phones? (lemm.ee)

submitted 4 months ago by [email protected] to c/[email protected]

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like I lived through the brick to flip phone to smartphone era, but I can't remember what features I was looking at on these flip phones when I was deciding which one to buy. do you guys remember?

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[–] [email protected] 18 points 4 months ago (2 children)

I liked the ones that had fm receivers in them and if you plugged in a pair of headphones they would act as the antenna and you could listen to local Radio stations.

[–] [email protected] 6 points 4 months ago (1 children)

forgot about that. I think that's how my Walkman worked as well

[–] [email protected] 6 points 4 months ago

It was.

Source: Had one myself.

[–] [email protected] 4 points 4 months ago* (last edited 4 months ago) (2 children)

I honestly miss that in modern handheld devices. A lot of radio stations aren't even available as Internet radio, and if they are, there's often no common search database (except iHeartRadio, except fuck iHeartRadio) so you have to manually input the stream URL, and a lot of them make it a pain in the ass to even find the stream URL on their site.

In short: fuck Internet radio. FM's where it's at.

Edit: Sorry, I should have specified: I'm in the US, specifically the Midwest.

[–] [email protected] 3 points 4 months ago* (last edited 4 months ago) (1 children)

I don't know its source for stations, but Transistor has direkt links for many German radio stations and probably other regions too.

I still vastly prefer FM, DAB or Satellite radio, but when those aren't available Transistor is a nice alternative.

[–] [email protected] 1 points 4 months ago (1 children)

Sorry, I should have specified: I'm speaking from the perspective of a Midwestern American.

[–] [email protected] 2 points 4 months ago (1 children)

It seems to also have american stations, I'd recommend you still give it a try.

[–] [email protected] 2 points 4 months ago (1 children)

Okay, so I installed it through F-Droid and tried to find this station

but it couldn't find it even when I included the callsign.

Am I doing something wrong?

[–] [email protected] 2 points 4 months ago (1 children)

Nope, you're doing everything right. Unfortunately it seems like that station actually just isn't available in whatever catalog Transistor uses.

[–] [email protected] 1 points 4 months ago* (last edited 4 months ago)

Balllllllllllllllllls...

...That being said, this is exactly what I was talking about.

[–] [email protected] 1 points 4 months ago

You can also try https://f-droid.org/packages/net.programmierecke.radiodroid2/

Seems like it's no longer maintained, but it works fine, has search, sleep timer.

It uses data from https://www.radio-browser.info/

It's all FOSS