Apple’s technical specifications for the iPad include a long list of wireless standards, including Wi-Fi and Bluetooth. Absent from the list is an old technology: FM radio. However, the specification list does not tell the whole story. When the technicians at iFixit took apart the iPad, they saw its wireless chip, which has an FM radio receiver among other functions. Hundreds of FM radio stations offer apps to their listeners, but the apps do not use the iPad’s FM receiver. Writer Bio
