Fwd: FM Radio

D. Vicario opendaniele at gmail.com
Tue Aug 21 11:32:36 CEST 2007


2007/8/19, Harald Welte <laforge at openmoko.org>:
> On Thu, Aug 16, 2007 at 01:45:12PM +0530, Ashok Kumar wrote:
>
> 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>                   http://openmoko.org/
>

I'm not in agreemen with how you say about the FM... So no radio for
Neo? not even in future versions? I am one that think that it's a FM
radio is essential in a modern device, like the camera.

This is not a good news for me... :(




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