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5 points by matttheatheist 9 years ago | 9 comments

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

What do you think? Comments appreciated!

www.enrad.io

matttheatheist 9 years ago |

Just lowered the price to $29 USD.

nostrademons 9 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.

matttheatheist 9 years ago | |

I'd love to give them away for free. I'll see what I can do about the price though.

shadowfax92 9 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?

matttheatheist 9 years ago | |

It picks up transmissions from 87.5 to 107.9 MHz.

anilgulecha 9 years ago |

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

matttheatheist 9 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 9 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 9 years ago |

Clickable: www.enrad.io