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		detaro on Feb 19, 2017 \| parent \| context \| favorite \| on: FCC chief wants smartphones’ hidden FM radios turn... Normally they use the headphone cable as an antenna (which leads to contortions if you want to listen using bluetooth, since with most phones the software assumes "oh, headphones plugged in, audio to headphones it is")

nxc18 on Feb 19, 2017 [–]

Windows Phone did a good job with this; the music app let you choose to override the default and play through the output device of your choice.

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