FM Radio App for iphone 4

I agree, I want an FM app too. When you're at the football for example and you want to listen to what's going on in other games ... well, in big crowds you have no chance of 3G reception never mind wifi. An FM radio app would solve that. It seems silly that I carry a £600 state of the art iPhone 4, but also have to bring a wee cheap radio as well because my phone can't do that simple functionality.

I would gladly pay for such an app.

The jailbreak community hasn't produced an FM radio for iPod Touch, which also technically has FM capability in that Broadcom chip. Just because the chip can do it doesn't mean the rest of the hardware can handle it. there has to be an antenna accessible to the FM portion of the chip, there has to be firmware support for telling the chip to switch on its FM radio, there has to be a way for the audio signal produced by the chip to be routed through the audio processor, there has to be a way to signal the chip to tune specific frequencies...I bet none of that is possible through software alone, even in a jailbreak context.

Although there's an FM radio deep within the silicon of the iPhone 4, there's a possibility there's no antenna running to it or that it's even functional, atop the fact that iOS doesn't have the functionality needed to interface with it.

A lot of radio stations now stream their broadcast live online, this is probably the easiest way to listen to the radio using only the iPhone

EDIT: basically what spblat said only posted slightly later

sinshackj said:

A lot of radio stations now stream their broadcast live online, this is probably the easiest way to listen to the radio using only the iPhone

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Thanks for the explanation guys, makes sense. In the interim however, we are still handicapped by the fact that you can't actually get online when you're sitting in a large crowd. Hence a £5 radio beats the iPhone 4 in that respect (unfortunately)

shotts56 said:

Thanks for the explanation guys, makes sense. In the interim however, we are still handicapped by the fact that you can't actually get online when you're sitting in a large crowd. Hence a £5 radio beats the iPhone 4 in that respect (unfortunately)

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You can't listen to games via streaming. I don't know why but they don't allow it(some kind of regulation?). I tried to listen to a football game while on vacation but instead they had a sports talk show on.

stylez4o1 said:

You can't listen to games via streaming. I don't know why but they don't allow it(some kind of regulation?). I tried to listen to a football game while on vacation but instead they had a sports talk show on.

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the pro leagues have blackout rules so you pay for their specific streaming services (like paying $15 for the mlb at bat iphone app). colleges don't usually have that with some exceptions (i know michigan blocks out streaming on their affiliates so you pay for their service)