For me it’s the notification light you used to find on older phones, was particularly good to know if your phone was charged without picking it up

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    11 months ago

    Mostly because they needed a wired headset to act as the FM antenna since it needs a decent length to capture FM compared to the much higher UHF and GHz frequencies that the mobile network uses.

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        11 months ago

        Imagine blowing out your phone speakers because you put your phone on the charger while listening to the radio.

        Typically speaking, it’s a bad idea to use power sources as an antenna. Because power pushes a lot more amps than something like a radio signal.