So the hot rumor about the forthcoming iPhone 7 is that it will lose something that has so far been taken for granted. I’m talking about the headphone jack. No headphone jack means no place to plug in your earbuds, headphones, or stereo cable. That means the audio will transmit wirelessly, and that most irritating of mobile phone nuisances – the easily tangled and easily ripped-from-your-ear cord – will be a thing of the past. According to one source: …the iPhone 7 will ship

Earlier this week I provided data and an argument to show why the NextRadio campaign to add an FM chip to mobile phones in the U.S. will be fruitless. But I hinted at an international scenario which might make much more sense for a form of this technology. Show me a market where everyone has mobile phones but not radios, and I’ll show you a market made for radios built into mobile phones. So it is in many areas of the world where radios and the plugged-in electricity which dr

Since when did I become the guy who didn’t want FM in mobile phones?  Bring it on, device-makers!  Install those chips! Actually, I don’t care whether or not FM is in mobile phones because I don’t think it makes one bit of difference to radio’s future whether it’s there or not (radio “experiences” need to be part of the mobile device ecosystem, to be sure.  But FM chips?  Feh). Jeff Smulyan thinks otherwise (see his reply to my post here).  I have the greatest respect for Jef

What happens to your world if FM radio chips are installed on mobile phones? Not much, probably.  But here are two unintended consequences to consider. For a full blow-by-blow look at the implications for FM chips in mobile phones, read this. #chip #digitalstrategy #radio #mobilephone #hear20 #cellphone #fm #featured #markramsey #Media #radioindustry #onlineradio #markramseymedia #hear2com