FM radio app for n3650????

[quote="julio_opao"]😃 hi to all! just wondering if there's a program like FM radio application for n3650? do we have it already???[/quote]

Can you please Search the forum in future? This question comes up nearly every week!

There is never going to be software to allow the 3650 to listen to FM radio because there is no hardware to do so.

The best you can get is streaming radio via RealPlayer and programs like that.

I think it was a joke about FM.In future dont post such threads.

No I don't think it was a joke. One of the old Ericsson's had a radio built in which was quite good (I think an old Nokia also had one). I think Nokia really missed out by not having radio capability built in to the 3650 as well as not going with stereo setup on the hardware so we could listen to decent sounding MP3s.

You are right,but it will be very expensive for NOKIA to create new platform(series 70 or othres),coz N3650 is based on the Nokias 7650 platform(series 60),and stereo sound has phones from a new platform(series 40),there is POPPORT.

And i am looking forward on Nokia for creating new SMARTPHONE,on a new platform,like Nokia 7760,.. 😊

You lost me. What is Popport?

And once again,bunch of bollocks.Series 60 is not the limitation for the
"FM radio" , its the "hardware" which is not there.Like most of you know,Series 60 is an UI - "User Interface" .The Siemens SX1 which runs on Symbian and Series 60 has an FM radio.

Good old Jimmy, will answer any old question, you can get radio on the 3650 if you really are desperate, and not in the uK, you can stream it using realOne.

Will

Coming to J-F's defense, since noone else will, I don't think he or anyone else said anything wrong about limitations for radio. It was correctly pointed out very early on in the thread that the hardware was the limitation. I think J-F was merely using Series 60 as a catchall phrase to represent the hardware that the 3650 phone is comprised of. Two questions: would it have been that much more expensive to build a radio capability or stereo capability into the phone? As GhostDog correctly points out other phones have this capability. Second question, has anyone tried streaming radio using RealOne and what is the quality?

I didnt try,but the quality will be NOT good.

[quote="peter"]You lost me. What is Popport?[/quote]PopPort is the bottom connector on some Nokia models such as 5100, 6800, 7250.

[quote="peter"]One of the old Ericsson's had a radio built in which was quite good (I think an old Nokia also had one). I think Nokia really missed out by not having radio capability built in to the 3650[/quote]A bunch of Nokia models have a built-in FM Radio. At least these: 3300, 5100, 5510 (the first one from Nokia with the feature), 6510, 6800, 7250, 8310, N-Gage (Series 60 based; announced, but not available yet).

POPPORT is great thing,unlucky 3650/7650 not havint it. :cry:

Interesting that the N-Gage will have built in radio when released. Also interesting that other Nokia's and other brands have had built-in radio as well as stereo sound ability but the 7650 and 3650 do not. Given all of the chatter on this forum about radio and stereo for the 3650, or lack thereof, doesn't this mean that Nokia may have geatly missed the mark in identifying its market or user for the 7650 or 3650. Business user vs. Youth user or Hard-core gamer vs. technophile or hard-core slacker vs. technophobe. Maybe an idea for a new thread? Did Nokia focus on the wrong user group?

If you ask me, Nokia missed the mark big time on the 3650. Give it an MMC card slot with (for now) up to 128MB storage, but no MP3 player, and mono output only. There's a lot of overlap in target user markets and I think Nokia just blew it this time.

While the 3650 is supposed to be a "Youth Phone" there are a lot of apps that this demographic would want i.e. FM Radio, MP3 player as well as stereo sound (for playing MP3s). The 3650 is also not a business user phone (although tere a lot of capabilities a business user would want (good contact database, email, MMS etc.). Has anyone put together a list of what apps or capabilities are missing from the 3650? I have seen a list of the 10 apps that we can not live without but not a list of apps and capabilities that are missing. Does anyone care to start their list?

Well, it's obvious that there is no harware based radio, but I have read about software FM radios on Slashdot in the past. Basically it works like this, rather than have specific FM hardware you actually use general purpose hardware and have the software emulate the FM hardware so that it can receive FM radio. Now, I don't recall them even mentioning its use with cellphones whatsoever. Not once. But, it's interesting to think about. If the 3650 is powerful enough to decode MP3's and other types of audio/video streams without needing a hardware decoder (believe me, hardware decoders do exist, that's what Nokia's optional attachable MP3 player is if I am not mistaken) then if somebody was able to write an app that could function as a tuner, using the telephone's built in antenna to tune into frequencies it would be quite an ingenius feat.

Unfortunately that would require modifying the hardware. The antenna is not tuneable. It functions on three preset frequencies, which are several times higher then the radio frequencies. Radio - roughly 85 to 105 Mhz. Cell phone - 900, 1800 , and 1900 Mhz. Now even the current Nok phones that have radio built in like 7210, 7250, 5100, etc. require an external antenna in the form of the wire leading to the headphones, the radio does no function without them.

What's with all of your RF knowledge? Are you ex-KGB?

Hehe I could tell you but then I would have to kill you.

if nokia put in the fm radio funtion... i dont think it would be so cheap in the first place

I think it would,the hardware is really cheap,and there are loads of open source app that can be ported to Symbian in order to control the hardware.

Not implementing a FM radio or BT audio in the 7650 is just one more case of Nokia's smart marketing,they wouldn't want make a perfect device now,would they.

Leave out a feature here,feature there,and you'll have good sales in every device class 😉

you're right about that GhostDog!!! Nokia is just playing around with us...

One thing I want to say about radio. You know how many times I used it on my 7210 in the half year that I had it? Twice. Both times were during the first 2 days when I was experimenting with the phone. So maybe they just did some market research and found out that not many people use it. Now my g/f uses the 7210 and she does use the radio function but that's because her car radio broke down a couple days ago and it's not fixed yet.

Well why do you have to have the headset connected to the phone to use the radio through the loudspeaker? Thats so stupid, people would use the radio much more if it worked through the loudspeaker without anything connected to the phone..

But,when i have got Nokia 7210,i made such,when iwas home.The quality is bad,but there some advantages,for example if you want to share music wuth other people.

I think that is due to hardware limitations. The wire for the headphones is used as the radio antenna. I sometimes use the radio of my 7250 (my second phone) with the Nokia music stand/charger in the office. Now that is a cool piece of equipment that they have. That thing also has a long wire coming out of it for the antenna.

:-? even if nokia had put hardware in the 3650 for an FM radio and saying you did actualy use it... how long would your battery last then? what with frodo, mp3s, videos, other games.... youd have to carry around a spare battery just to last the day...

BATTERY is not a problem,the problem is in that 3650 hasnt got FM,and Stereo output.2Kirill:yes its really usefull to use NOKIA MUSIC STAND.