CEA survey: Americans don't want FM in cell phones

I would love an FM tuner in my cell (phone).

I'd like to get American Top 40 built into my iPhone... of course that's AT40 from 1973. AT40 on demand on an iPhone would sell a lot more iPhones.

I'd like to get HD radio on my iPhone. that would be a value added feature.

I have an FM radio in my DroidX, and I don't much care for it. It doesn't really have any advantage over my Sirius Sat radio app on the phone. FM signal disappears in all the same spots 3G and WiFi do (mostly metro). Worst part is that you have to plug in headphones to listen to the thing because the phone uses the wires as the FM antenna. One has to assume that if they can't fit an FM antenna inside a phone as massive as the X, that all cell phones would have to have some sort of external antenna.

A big problem for european and asian users, are the introduction of digital radio, as DAB/DAB+/DMB.

FM-radio is sort of yesterdays news over here...

As two two people have pointed out, the iPhone 3GS already has a FM receiver built-in. Wifi/Bluetooth functionality is provided by a Broadcom BCM4325 chip. Which is a Wifi 802.11a/b/g, Bluetooth 2.1 + EDR, and FM receiver, all in one chip.

Apple simply hasn't provided a software feature to that uses the FM capabilities of the chip. Why the jailbreak community hasn't done so yet though I don't know. Maybe they're not interested, forgotten about the feature, or it might be very difficult to access the functionality in code with specifications jailbreakers aren't privy to.

More info on the Broadcom chip can be found here: http://www.broadcom.com/products/Bluetooth/Bluetooth-RF-Silicon-and-Software-Solutions/BCM4325

If they can do it without the device costing more, fine, but if it costs me even a dollar, FORGET it. I hate the radio, and seriously, I think it's on the way out. I haven't listened to the radio in YEARS... Reason 1: Advertisements. Hate them in audio form. I don't mind them popping up somewhere on my screen where I can glance at them and spend more time looking if interested, but to monopolize airtime, no. They are mostly garbage anyway, ambulance-chase lawyers and the sort. I wonder when advertisers will start to realize that nobody really listens to radio anymore (yes, my exaggerated opinion). Reason 2: Music on the radio sucks. Seriously, these stations have like a 10-song playlist, which is of-course because they are paid to play certain songs. Some of the new songs are really cool, but after hearing them 20 times a day they get old really quickly. I would rather listed to what I want to listen to with great variety.

The test of any True American: Leaving FM radios in their own separate cases.

Sure, it's okay to have a dictating machine, a movie camera, a music and blah audio streaming device, a magnetometer, an animated whereami map, a compass, a video phone, an art program, a 1950s still camera, a computer game, another computer game, yet another computer game and a note pad in my cell phone, but FM?

WTF would I use that for???

I read here (http://www.wired.com/gadgetlab/2009/10/rumor-apple-to-switch-on-sleeping-fm-radio-in-iphone-ipod-touch/) every iPhone is already equipped with an FM transceiver. It just hasn't been activated in the software.

Funny too how you Americans are so paranoid about what your government thinks of things.

I thought there was already the hardware in the iPhone that could play broadcast radio (the bluetooth chip or something) ?

Why on earth would anybody want noisy non selective FM junk cluttering up their phone!