Liquid & radio Fm ?

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Somewhere in inetrnet some say that there is the hardware for FM radio and requires only an application to make it work? Fact or fantasy?

Originally Posted by nemocool

Somewhere in inetrnet some say that there is the hardware for FM radio and requires only an application to make it work? Fact or fantasy?

The Snapdragon chip has FM in it.
But the Liquid doesn't have FM, dunno if it's disabled or took out (hardware)

So what I read is not a fantasy, I hope someone develops a utility that allows us to use it!

I think its the bluetooth chip that have FM receiver, not the CPU.

Check this out:
http://forum.xda-developers.com/showthread.php?t=608340

If Bluetooth chip is same then Liquid should have radio and since F1 has radio and F1 and Liquid hardware are pretty much the same, I think there is big possibility Liquid to have radio, which is disabled.

Also I have seen in a dump from HTC Espresso a radio application.

Look at this:
http://www.broadcom.com/products/Blu...utions/BCM4325

I wonder then why FM radio is disabled and the bluetooth is 2.0 instead of 2.1??

Originally Posted by nemocool

I wonder then why FM radio is disabled and the bluetooth is 2.0 instead of 2.1??

bluetooth might be because android just started supporting bt 2.1 in eclair (who knows if updating the radio will make it work in 2.1 instead of 2.0)... fm radio who knows...

Originally Posted by [[ Cold ]]

bluetooth might be because android just started supporting bt 2.1 in eclair (who knows if updating the radio will make it work in 2.1 instead of 2.0)... fm radio who knows...

It occurs to me that we are experiencing growth Andorid day to day, who knows if in a not too distant future we will also see an application that runs the FM receiver

Exactly, giving the limited resources Acer has to making Android phones (probably just ramping up), they decided to skip on developing software drivers for the FM radio since they figured most people will use 3G streaming. but I like FM radio since it uses way less power and for those who don't have a data plan to burn through. Hopefully someone is able to write software drivers for the FM radio.