At the BES Expo in New Dehi, India, the Digital Radio Mondiale Consortium demonstrated DRM Digital FM reception on a mobile phone.
According to DRM, no proprietary receiver technology was needed, so long as the phone includes an off-the-shelf analog FM tuner chipset. Such chipsets typically require the use of wired headphones, which double as an antenna. A photo released by DRM showed the phone using a StarWaves-branded app. StarWaves introduced in 2021 a DRM SoftRadio app; however, that app requires an external dongle or tuner.
Ahead of the Feb. 15–18, 2024, exhibition, StarWaves had announced plans to show “an exciting novel mobile solution” at the DRM Consortium’s technology showcase.
