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.
<br><br>I guess there is always the option of mokocasting (aka podcasting)<br><br><div><span class="gmail_quote">On 8/19/07, <b class="gmail_sendername">Harald Welte</b> <<a href="mailto:laforge@openmoko.org">laforge@openmoko.org
</a>> wrote:</span><blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="border-left: 1px solid rgb(204, 204, 204); margin: 0pt 0pt 0pt 0.8ex; padding-left: 1ex;">On Thu, Aug 16, 2007 at 01:45:12PM +0530, Ashok Kumar wrote:<br><br>> Any plans of adding it in future?
<br><br>not really. It's still somewhat of a strange conception to me why<br>peopel would be interested in listening to hours and hours of crappy<br>commercials interrupted with one or two (mostly crappy, too) songs in
<br>between, if they have a choice to listen to their collection of .ogg<br>(and patent-encumbered .mp3) files.<br><br>Also, I currently don't know what effects this has on things like FCC<br>approval.<br><br>Furthermore, some countries have some kind of levy-based scheme for
<br>funding the public broadcasting companies. This means that they would<br>have to pay extra money for a device that has FM radio capabilities.<br><br>--<br>- Harald Welte <<a href="mailto:laforge@openmoko.org">laforge@openmoko.org
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