

While Samsung may be right in believing that flagship customers tend to be focused on digital content, the fact is, if you take something away from people after they become used to it (in other Galaxy flagships), they are far more likely to complain, than if they never enjoyed the feature in the first place. The flagship model of our products are focused on customers who use digital content, which use modern formats and channels of information consumption. Our studies show a trend shift of interest to digital broadcasting, specifically - focus on listening to music content in social networks or on the channel YouTube.

Samsung's Facebook page in Russia has made the following announcement on the subject, which was picked up by GSM Arena via. There have been complaints since the omission was confirmed after Galaxy S4 was officially unveiled but Samsung was mum on the subject - until now. In that sense, Samsung customers are used to enjoying the feature.

While Apple has never shipped an iPhone with built-in FM radio - despite receiving its share of criticism - Samsung's first three flagship devices, and indeed, most other phones, come with FM radio. The omission of FM was indeed a strange one from Samsung. While the phone boasts high-end specs like a 5-inch full-HD screen with 441 pixels per inch, a 1.6GHz Exynos octa-core processor in some regions and a 1.9GHz Qualcomm Snapdragon quad-core processor in others, and 2GB of RAM, it received criticism in some quarters for missing out on a rather basic feature: FM radio. NextRadio is a broadcaster-backed app that works with smartphones containing active FM chips (including devices from HTC, Motorola, and LG), letting users listen to local radio stations.Samsung Galaxy S4 was unveiled by the company on 14 March. There are no hardware changes, as FM receivers are already present in most smartphones, but not all smartphone makers activate them. Are you looking for a powerful radio app for android? TuneIn radio application comes with up to 100,000 radio stations.
