Today everyone listens to music through their mobile phone thanks to applications as popular as Spotify. we also consume podcast of all kinds through platforms such as ivoox. However, listening to the radio has not gone out of style and many people do it every day. That is something that many smartphone manufacturers seem to have forgotten, as they have removed this option from their devices. Then, What to do to listen to radio without Internet?
Well, the solution seems obvious: if the new smartphone models do not include a radio application, there is no choice but to resort to external applications. The bad thing is that most of them consume our mobile data.
Luckily, there are other alternatives, although not many, really. Currently the number of applications that allow us to have radio without internet has been drastically reduced. At least in the official app download portals, such as Google Play. This has its explanation: the market is moving in the direction of imposing the model of streaming content on demand.
Still, it is not impossible to find solutions. Some will serve us for any type of mobile; others, however, will only work with certain brands. We explain them below, maybe one of them will help you:
nextradio
The first of our proposals to listen to radio without Internet from our mobile phones is nextradio. It is a very popular option used by many people around the world, an application through which we will have thousands of channels from different countries and in different languages available to us. And they are data consumption or the need to connect to a WiFi network.
All we have to do, apart from downloading and installing it on our mobile (you will find the link below) is make sure our smartphone is compatible.
Nextradio is a highly valued app in general, although there are many users who have complained about some shortcomings such as the need to tune in stations manually, since there is no automatic option. Other common observations refer to the fact that the application does not receive stations in certain regions of the world.
Radio without Internet for mobiles of a certain brand
Beyond Nextradio, users of certain brands of mobile phones will have other additional options to listen to radio without internet. Unfortunately, not many offer this possibility. We are going to mention three manufacturers in particular: Huawei, Samsung and Xiaomi.
Huawei
This company has some compatible models to listen to the radio without having to be connected to the Internet. If our mobile is a Huawei, what we must do is check if it is compatible to install the Huawei FM Radio APK. In general, the headphone jack will serve as an antenna to receive the radio signal.
When installing this app on our Huawei mobile we must not forget activate the "Unknown sources" function, which allows the system to install APK files from unofficial websites. This function is activated from the Settings menu, within the security section.
Link: Huawei FM Radio
Samsung
Although it is true that the new models of telephones of Samsung have dispensed with the Radio FM app, this It is still present in some of its Galaxy terminals. Specifically, we are going to find it in the M20, A10, A20e, A30, A40, A50, A70 and A80 models.
In these "old" terminals the Radio FM app is installed and activated. This makes things much easier, since there is no need to download or install any application, as we have seen in the case of Huawei.
But there is still more good news for Samsung users: last November, the South Korean brand announced its alliance with NextRadio, which includes a commitment to unlock the FM radio chip of all the models in your catalog They still have this component. This means that listening to radio without internet with a smartphone of this brand will be within everyone's reach.
Xiaomi
Finally, if your mobile phone is a Xiaomi, you will also be able to enjoy the possibility of listening to different radio stations without having to be connected to the Internet.
Most of the models of this brand already come with this built-in function. But even for those models that, for whatever reason, or have it, there is the possibility of activating it, without having to download any application.
For activate FM Radio option on Xiaomi manually We have to go to the telephone call dialer and write the following code there:
* # * # * # * # 6484
Once this is done, click on the call button that will open an options menu on the screen. What we have to select is number 18 (FM), which will trigger this functionality.