CrackBerry Asks: Do you use/want FM radio on your BlackBerry?

I think the FM radio is fantastic. I used to own a LG Viewty (dire phone) and loved the radio. I then I updated to the 8520 and lost it. Now I'm on a 9320 and I'm glad to see it back.

I would love to have it on the 9900 but I'm hoping the BB10's have the feature

I think it would be good. I use my phone everyday for work since I'm out side and when I run out of podcasts it would be nice to have this. I would enjoy it (as long as it works not like my droid x where it was a sad excuse) but if it didn't I would complain since its not too relevent anymore. But I do enjoy the morning radio shows and sport on the radio...
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Probably not, If I use any thing, its the music player, then nobex or something like that. I seriously doubt I'd appreciate a radio function, I mean why? I can get local radio stations and more through nobex, etc...

I have a 9900 that doesn't have FM Radio, but if it had it, there are times I would use it. There is one time in particular that I wished I had a built in radio. Durring the Vancouver Olympics the lineups for some of the events & houses were huge. It would have been great if I had had a radio that I could have followed the ongoing events with. I waited 9.5 hours in rain to be able to hold the medals. That was the day canada won a bunch of gold medals. There was 1 guy in the line beside us that had a built in FM transmitter, everyone was crowded around him looking for updates.

having FM is a nice feature to have on the bb but I don't use it but if it was an AM feature... then I could retire my old sony am/fm/weather walkman

I would absolutely use it, my last few dumb phones before getting my first smartphone had FM radio and I did use it every day back then.

The reason this feature became cool, I had my Nokia 808, went to a drive it and watched a movie in the car and had to fix my radio station to listen in. I went out for to smoke and tuned my nokia and got to listen to the movie outside the car using the radio in the phone. its a cool feature that would not hurt to add

The idea of getting FM radio right from your phone is an awesome idea but it's a battery and data hog. I have TuneIn Radio Pro installed on my 9900 and it states that it can use upwards of 100MB of data per hour. I'd only ever use it on Wi-Fi which kinda defeats the purpose of mobile radio.

I get all the local AM/FM stations that I normally listen to on TuneIn but if a native FM feature saved power, I would definitely use it.

It's one of those things that I would probably never use outside the authors present circumstances.

I haven't turned on a radio in years, mainly because there's nothing in my town worth listening to...

I have the 9900 - no built-in FM radio. However, I use the TuneIn radio app almost daily. It uses device data, but that's not an issue for me (8gb/month).

Quite honestly I'm hooked listening to BBC through TuneIn and if I need to listen to anything local I can find it there too. Fortunately I have unlimited data so I can afford the use.

It would be great when I go to live sporting events (like hockey games, nascar races, etc...) to be able to listen to what the announcers are saying without having to bring a small radio along

I'd love to have it included on my 9900. I'm still a radio junkie, for some reason, and I need my fix without using my data plan.

I don't use my radio in my car... So Norbex is enough on my berry.

A good feature to have though.

Like others here, I would love a radio. Use Tune-In a lot.

I use the radio on my current phone at least once or twice a week. I would miss it if it wasn't in my next phone but probably wouldn't skip a phone if it was missing.

I like sports and the mlb at bat is the only app I have found that works properly. I have tried other third party apps like tune in radio, but all stations aren't always available for college football. There are a few local sports networks in my area but are never on iheart radio or tunein. A FM radio would be fantastic, plus it's a 50 year technology, don't think it would be too hard to implement into today's technology

I would love to have an FM feature to listen to NPR shows and newscasts. There have been so many times where I would be listening to a program in my car and then get to my destination only to have to leave my car.

TuneIn Radio is one of the first apps I install on any mobile phone - it offers a huge, worldwide selection for free, it's a great way to learn another language, etc., so I'm not sure how this would be different.

Terrestrial radio utterly useless to me. Haven't listened to it in over 6 years.

My girlfriend has Fm radio and I'd love to have it on my device too! It works really well and came in handy during the hurricane but you can only use it with headphones which sucked during the Hurricane as we all wanted to listen to the updates. I guess maybe the headphones act as a antenna? Idk but speakerphone option would be great.

I use it to listen to music some times when I want something other than my own mp3s.

I love FM to be able to listen to NPR and events in a stadium while we are outside, etc. Plus it is a major safety feature like Adam has discovered. I live in earthquake country and used to be on the local Red Cross Board. Having a radio is really helpful, but I don't carry one. I always have my Berry with me.

I would like to have the FM HD where there are several channels on one freq. The am stations in PHX all rebroadcast on FM HD that would be cool

I was hoping RIM would come out with a BlackBerry that plays eight track tapes.

I would love to have a FM radio on my 9930. In this modern era of smartphones, I think ALL of them should have FM radios.

I'd definitely love to have FM radio on my nex BB, BB10,,,my power is still out from hurricane Sandy and it so happens my battery radios don't work so I have to call upon my lil Nokia...so yes FM radio built into BB10 would b gr8...on a different note, most importantly for me is good battery life,..that's my dealbreaker!

It would definitely be a plus for BB10 and I would use it ALL the time when I'm walking.

Go on RIM. Dare to be different.

I like mawil1013 use Nobex all the time to stream AM and FM stations on both my 9900 as well as my Playbook so not worried about an FM function.

I have a 9360 for about a year now and have used the FM radio maybe twice. To say it's a battery hog is an understatement. If I was using FM a lot I'd be charging/changing batteries every 2 hours! Plus the phone gets very warm when your listening to FM for more than 30 minutes at a time. To me this borders on excessive wear'n tear on your phone which I can do without.

Sometimes I do

Nobex is fine over WiFi. Over cellular, not as good.

Apparently people in Africa wanted it. They wanted to listen to their local radio stations without chewing up bandwidth and RIM listened.

For AM stations you can always go online and get the feed. I like doing that to catch a game without having to keep searching for channels if i'm going somewhere.

Hey folks

This is the 21st century.

In Europe, Australia and many Asian countries, we need digital radio, not analogue radio.

(on behalf of the millions who use DAB, DAB+, or DMB)
www.worlddab.org

I use the free app Nobex Radio on my Playbook. With this great app I no longer have a need for an FM Radio, as this it allows me to listen to literally any FM Radio station on the planet.
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I’d rather be a Black Sheep than an iSheep any day.

If it was there, then I'd use it but I wiuldnt be basing any buying decisions on it.

Internet radio is much better why is FM still relevant? TuneIn Radio app works exceptionally well.

Internet radios such as Tunein are no substitute for a built in FM radio for those on low data plans. Compared to FM radio, internet radio IS a battery hog. Also the quality of the sound is not as good and you have to put up with a lot of buffering if you're in a area where there's a poor 3G signal.
Where internet radio does excel is in the number of stations there are to choose from however I suspect that many people just want to listen to a local or national station rather than one broadcast from Outer Mongolia.
So I vote 'yes' for FM but what would be even better for the BB10 phones is if they could implement DAB radio.

How about FM+HD radio?

I would like to see dab and fm tuner ;)

It boggles my mind why the FM radio is available on the 9360---but not the virtually identical 9370. I cannot tell you how disappointed I was, especially after waiting over six months for 7.1.

Question is, would ATT and verizon try to figure out a way to charge for it. I am actually considering getting an iPod Nano that has FM, just to have a little transistor radio with me for certain news shows. And, we do have one specific great FM music station here.

I spend the majority of my day deep underground, there is no AM/FM signal, but there is WIFI down here, so I use TuneIn (and Nobex previously). So no, an AM/FM Rx wouldn't help me any.

I'm working at a local radio station in my town, and listening to radio is daily routine (though mostly work related, recording&monitoring what announcer said on the air etc). But I use my pc to do that because no carriers here includes any streaming activity in their usual blackberry data plans. Which means if any of us here use radio apps, we are not using our paid data plan,but regular wap connection and that's very expensive (my boss once ended up with an extra $50 charged on his monthly bill, just because he used a radio app for few days). Only two carriers have recently added a special streaming plan but no one use it because it's still too expensive.

We have to do what android user does here (to connect to internet) when we want to use any radio apps. Using wifi.

I would much more like to see a BB10 device with a FM transmitter.

I have a few AM/FM radios in the house. All of them take batteries, three of them run all day and night.

Oh and one is a ShortWave radio, from 1988. :)

I think its nifty, but I don't feel strongly enough about it to say the device should have it or not. It's just cool when it does!
Internet radio is where it's at for me anyway

I voted for an FM radio on this poll (I do not have a device which has one), but to be clear, I'd only want one if its inclusion in the device didn't adversely affect the performance of any of the other radios already in there.

Besides the radio, I think they should also put a FM transmitter.

BB missed the boat years ago and can redeem itself now. EVERY GYM from LA Fitness to Private Country Clubs have multiple TV panels on the wall to watch and LISTEN to while working out. Everybody has a device strapped to their arm for listening purposes. What could be better advertising and FUNCTIONALITY than having the device of choice on your arm to listen to the broadcasts (they have standard channel OVER THE AIR FM transmitters for those of you who do not go to the gym) and show off to everyone else. They are now putting advertisements on leg tattoos for goodness sakes! The extra device (Walkman, Sansa, etc.) can be eliminated and you can also take calls (if so desired) while working out that interrupt the FM OVER THE AIR signal. I have been looking for this for YEARS! Only the curve 9360 or a few android phones have this feature. I DO NOT WANT internet radio. As mentioned in other comments, the OVER THE AIR signal is also useful in emergencies. Why not also incorporate emergency bands like those available on $49 solar/battery/hand crank emergency radios sold on Frontgate and the hardware stores? This feature is a no brainer and should have been available since day one on all smartphones. PLEASE MAKE THIS HAPPEN via APP OR A STANDARD FEATURE. We businesspeople use gym time as productively as possible and this is definitely something that will be used!!! This is something like the BIG MISTAKE Palm made when it did not put a phone in the early devices (1990's) that were almost identical to the current smartphones (yes, they had "pinch to zoom" on the screen for photos way back then). Thank you very much! I hope somebody at BB is listening or they may go the way of Palm because they did not listen even though they were ahead of their time on every device that is currently on the market (including iPhone, Netbooks, iPads, etc.) Are you listening Blackberry? I would love to see a reply from a decision-maker at BB on these forums. The Microsoft moron who removed the "START" button form windows8 was tossed out on his behind because he did not listen to his key customers. Palm had some of the BEST websites for SHARING USER IDEAS for maximizing their devices functionality. PLEASE, BB, LISTEN TO YOUR CUSTOMERS! YOU ARE NOT STEVE JOBS who did a great job of guessing what consumers would like. YOUR CUSTOMERS, BUSINESSPEOPLE WILL BE HAPPY TO TELL YOU IN THESE ONGOING FORUMS! I HOPE YOU HAVE SOME EMPLOYEES OVER 40 years old WHO UNDERSTAND THESE THINGS!!!!! THE YOUNG "KIDS" THINK THEY HAVE COME WITH UP WITH SOMETHING COOL WHEN Compaq offered a fully featured laptop / tablet combo back in 1994 when many of the current tech world employees were still in kindergarten. Every businessperson I have asked for 2 years has said that they would immediately switch back to Blackberry if it had a better screen & browser. Every phone fanatic I know who carries a BB & iPhone says the BB is twice as fast to use and get things done as the iPhone. But, they like some of the features of iPhone and can afford to carry both so they do. Good Luck with BB10. (Again, somebody at BB, please listen to us!)