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Does the iPad have FM Radio inbuilt?
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While FM reception and voice control are "possible" neither has been implemented. You can run a search on voice control for the iPad and there are jailbreak options out there. As for FM, there are a number of radio applications out there (as well as police/fire scanners) but as for now, at least, they require wifi or 3G.
If there was no microphone on the iPad then the people I've called on Skype wouldn't have responded when I spoke.
So, Apple may add in the ios4 (iPad) update, a radio app.
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Why would they pay to put an FM radio thing in it but then never use it.
Also I have a Lg viewty phone, with Bluetooth (a2dp) can I copy files from my iPad to my phone (Bluetooth 2.1 + EDR technology).
It's a Broadcom chip that enables Bluetooth and FM, so it's not just floating out there with nothing to do. As far as Bluetooth file transfer goes, that's also a "not yet."
Same reason Apple used a CPU that has Java acceleration, but never allowed Java. Many chips come with extra features that companies often don't use.
Oh really? It tells you that the iPad has a microphone, but doesn't tell you about voice control, it also doesn't tell you about the FM radio even though ifixit confirmed that it does.
You really expect apple to put anything worthwhile on the the iPad. They can't even let us have flash even though 99% of people want it. Remember if apple says you don't need it you don't need it.
Maybe the phone would have done better if they had gone back to the old school where phones had a pull out 6" antenna. My 1st cell phone had one.
Their solution to a lack of antennae would be to recommend plugging in headphones. But enabling the FM radio would possibly reduce iTunes store sales. The iPod Nano has an enabled radio, but it has no direct connection to the store. I read that even the 3G iPhone has a disabled (or non-enabled) FM facility.
I am using wunder radio. It has 99% of my local stations and even the stations I used to listen to in the UK.
This is an argument that I don't really understand and I've read it around many places. The iPod Nano does allow tagging of songs to be downloaded later on in the iTunes Store. If anything, an FM radio would increase song sales because more songs are getting exposed than what's just on your iPod and people would probably want to listen to that song repeatedly.
It doesn't have an FM radio builtin but with free Apps like "HiDef Radio" you have so many more station options why would you want a builtin one?
Um, no.
It has a mic, that is correct. However the iPad does not support FM radio, regardless of what the chips inside are potentially capable of and regardless of what ifixit says. It also does not support Apple's voice control à la iPhone 3GS/4. 3rd party solutions are a) hardly worth it and b) not well integrated like the iPhone's voice control.
So, the spec sheet is correct.
+ mic
- voice control
- FM radio