FM Radio

[Tehn Yit Chin]

Personally, I would find a FM radio on a phone to be a welcome addition. I
use the radio to not only to listen to music, but also the listen to the
news and other broadcasted information. I must admit that stations on the FM
band are definitely more incline to be your stereotypical Top40 radio
stations.

I guess there is always the option of mokocasting (aka podcasting)

On 8/19/07, Harald Welte <laforge at openmoko.org> wrote:
>
> On Thu, Aug 16, 2007 at 01:45:12PM +0530, Ashok Kumar wrote:
>
> > Any plans of adding it in future?
>
> not really.  It's still somewhat of a strange conception to me why
> peopel would be interested in listening to hours and hours of crappy
> commercials interrupted with one or two (mostly crappy, too) songs in
> between, if they have a choice to listen to their collection of .ogg
> (and patent-encumbered .mp3) files.
>
> Also, I currently don't know what effects this has on things like FCC
> approval.
>
> Furthermore, some countries have some kind of levy-based scheme for
> funding the public broadcasting companies.  This means that they would
> have to pay extra money for a device that has FM radio capabilities.
>
> --
> - Harald Welte <laforge at openmoko.org>
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