Evo teardown reveals... FM Transmitter?

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A recent teardown by ifixit reveals Evo running Broadcom BCM4329 radio chipset. According to broadcom's official promo page, BCM4329 contains "FM radio receiver and transmitter" capability.

HTC Evo - 1Ghz, 4.3" LCD, WiMax, WiFi a/b/g/n, FM Rx+Tx... I think I'm starting to melt just thinking how much I will enjoy this lil device once I get it on June 4th

Originally Posted by frifox

A recent teardown by ifixit reveals Evo running Broadcom BCM4329 radio chipset. According to broadcom's official promo page, BCM4329 contains "FM radio receiver and transmitter" capability.

HTC Evo - 1Ghz, 4.3" LCD, WiMax, WiFi a/b/g/n, FM Rx+Tx... I think I'm starting to melt just thinking how much I will enjoy this lil device once I get it on June 4th

i bet you 50 bucks that there will not be any transmitting feature installed.. and i bet you that it will take several months before it will get hacked

Re: Evo teardown reveals... FM Transmitter?

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There is no transmitting feature. You can only listen to the radio with headphones on.

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Well, that much I do know... already been down that road with touch pro's "hardware accelerated graphics". HTC is well known not to utilize chip's full potential, let it be due to licensing or whatever reason there is.

After quick search on google, it seems that N1/Desire/iPodTouch3G/iPad all contain BCM4329, and seeing all the good devs coming over to Evo territory I'm having my fingers crossed that someone unlocks/writes a driver+app for that FM transmitter before this christmas
EDIT: ... given that the FM transmitter part of the chip is actually wired to the board

I've been dealing with various radios on linux with x86/x64 hardware for past 5 years, so I'll give Evo a stab and see what I can do with it

And just what will you be transmitting if you could?

i use a bluetooth speakerphone in my car to transmit to my car stereo... it'd be nice to take the speakerphone out of the picture. stream pandora/last.fm to the clock radio i have at work.

as posted above, I'd love to stream music to external speakers such as car's audio which doesnt have no aux/blutooth capability.

Has there been any progress on the FM transmitter part? where can I get more info? or is it just a dead topic without much glory

Would be great to be able to stream audio to the car!! I may be buying wrong cars, but none of them come with stock radios that have aux inputs or such. FM transmitting was availble on TAPE DECKS at one time to 'stream' audio to the car.

How can we have forgotten this ability for our newest devices??

BCM4329 is an 802.11 chipset... and originally a B/G only one if I remember right. FM just means frequency modulated. Would be a 2.4ghz FM transmitter chip. Cant think of any microwave transmitters that are AM really anyhow. So, nowhere even close to the right frequency range. Most likely the wifi chip.

Namopereht

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