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5 points by matttheatheist 10 years ago · 10 comments · 1 min read


This project took me 1 year to complete, all by my lonesome self.

What do you think? Comments appreciated!

www.enrad.io

matttheatheistOP 9 years ago

Just lowered the price to $29 USD.

nostrademons 10 years ago

Price point is way too high. I can buy a portable radio from Target for $10.

If it were just an app (no hardware) with a price point in the $5-10 range, I'd find it useful. Not sure whether that's even possible though. The existence of cheap competitors sets a ceiling on what you can charge for it.

shadowfax92 10 years ago

Love the concept! But, with things like Spotify/App Music/Sound Cloud and many more streaming services, I think a very small population of users actually use radio.

[Suggestion] Can this have some application in Medical or SOS or listening to police scanner?

anilgulecha 10 years ago

This brings FM for phones without it? Don't most phones already have built in FM?

  • matttheatheistOP 10 years ago

    Exactly. Phones without FM capabilities can now listen to FM radio. It even works in "airplane mode", since you're not actually streaming anything from a server.

    And by the way, most phones have the FM chip purposely disabled... forcing you to stream data from the internet.

    But with this device, anybody can get FM radio.

    • anilgulecha 10 years ago

      Got it. This could be a US thing.. Asian phones almost all have this feature.

      Also, your competition is probably a simple 10$ FM radio on aliexpress/amazon.

brudgers 10 years ago

Clickable: www.enrad.io

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