While I love listening to music, MP3's, etc.. sometimes I enjoy listening to the news and politics radio shows on various AM radio stations.
I'd love to have an AM tuner in my next BlackBerry phone since I'm not always in a car or at home when I want to listen to it. Sometimes while I'm out for a walk I'd like to tune in to a talkshow.
I don't know if there will be a tuner in the new upcoming models (although I do recall hearing something about it in some sort of patent? Someone else might be able to answer that). However, there are plenty of radio apps that you can peruse. The one I use is TuneIn.
BB just released OS 10.2.1 January 28th. The FM tuner works but I'd like to get AM radio now - I like listening to news too. Any word on AM being available? I'm using my data plan to get AM radio through app, not good. Low tech please BB.
AM radio hardware receivers are much much larger than that of an FM radio receiver. It adds a lot of unwanted bulk for a feature that most people would not use.
I actually don't know of any portable devices that have AM radio in them.