Sunday, January 31, 2010

FM Radio for the N800

The Nokia N800, introduced in January 2007, was the first internet tablet from Nokia that featured a FM tuner chip (without RDS unfortunately).

And now the popular FM Radio application from the N900 is coming to the N800 real soon! I'm currently working on N800 support in the application so that both devices will be sharing a common code-base.

See FM Radio on the N800 in action:

7 comments:

MaGaO said...

Is it a radio tuner or a radio emitter? I certainly would be interested in a radio emitter, so I could use it to play music in my car :)

Martin Grimme said...

It's a radio tuner. The N800 has no FM transmitter.

Jonathan Pritchard said...

Does that mean the N900 does have RDS?

Martin Grimme said...

Yes, the N900 has RDS. Both, transmitter and receiver support RDS on the N900.

Anonymous said...

So good to see the N800 isn't completely forgotten by developers. ;)

Thank you!

Unknown said...

is there any possible to back up my station list?

since I am moving in two city often. I want to switch my fm station profile or list. I could do it in xterm console, that's not a big deal. But I can't find any files was used by this application.

Thanks,

Gene

Ofir said...

Hello,
Great development so far. I really need to know: Is there a way to force the radio to always play in stereo? When I tune to a station with clear reception I hear stereo OK. Right after I tune to a frequency with poor reception, I can hear it stereo for just a flash of a second then it goes back to mono. I want it to play in stereo all the time, no matter how bad is the reception and not for a flash of second. I have no problem to hear an extra wide-static noise - a reasonable price for me. In Qt mobile there is an X-terminal method ctrl+D should force stereo. Can the FM radio application be optimize in a similar way?