- I'm aware that other BB10 generation devices have FM radio capability. Haven't seen any definitive details on whether or not the Classic will have FM radio capability. In the US, AT&T and Verizon are the carriers I'd consider/go with if the Classic has FM radio hardware. I know that the Z30 is available now on Verizon, and apparently FM radio capability is there.
Note, I found several recent CB posts about this topic, but am not allowed to post the links until I hit the magical 10.08-23-14 11:40 AMLike 0 - It's basically a Q10 with some internal upgrades. I believe we should see the FM radio in the classic but then again BlackBerry 10 devices were slated to launch with 1 GB of RAM. Bottom line is things change, and heck the PlayBook has an FM radio but it's not accessible. So let's wait and see what happens.
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?Posted without the aid of AutoCorrect with my physical keyboard via CB1008-23-14 05:03 PMLike 0 - No. BlackBerry Classic - Full phone specifications
Few smart phones will/do have FM.
There's money in selling you music & data plans.Trees likes this.08-23-14 08:28 PMLike 1 - Appreciate everyone weighing in. I'm hoping that the radio hardware/software does appear. Not a deal breaker, but would help reduce impact on data plan usage. Besides reduced data usage, the other benefit I'd hope to gain is access to channels that are not available, or are blacked out on the various streaming apps. Never fails for games that I want to listen to, fall into either of those categories.08-23-14 09:14 PMLike 0
- No. BlackBerry Classic - Full phone specifications
Few smart phones will/do have FM.
There's money in selling you music & data plans.08-23-14 10:58 PMLike 0 -
I've thought about the Z30, but not sure at this point if I want to go for a ~ 10 month old device, and to a degree the Z30 would negate my desire for dedicated function/toolbelt keys and physical keyboard.08-24-14 09:28 AMLike 0 -
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- In one of the gyms I use, FM transmitters are the only way to pick up sound from the big screen TVs. I miss out on that not having an FM capable device. Again, not a big deal, but would be a nice feature to have.
I've thought about the Z30, but not sure at this point if I want to go for a ~ 10 month old device, and to a degree the Z30 would negate my desire for dedicated function/toolbelt keys and physical keyboard.09-01-14 09:10 PMLike 0 - I'm all for streaming if theres a way it won't count against the data plan. The #1 reason I don't use streaming is the hit on the data plan.
Understood about the design prioritization and tradeoffs that are made during product planning and development.
There is a use case for FM radio in many parts of the world where data plans are expensive and limited in bandwidth allowances.
Whether BlackBerry decides that the Q20 is good platform to provide FM compared to the other devices remains to be seen.09-05-14 06:34 PMLike 0 - I'm aware that other BB10 generation devices have FM radio capability. Haven't seen any definitive details on whether or not the Classic will have FM radio capability. In the US, AT&T and Verizon are the carriers I'd consider/go with if the Classic has FM radio hardware. I know that the Z30 is available now on Verizon, and apparently FM radio capability is there.
Note, I found several recent CB posts about this topic, but am not allowed to post the links until I hit the magical 10.
Posted using my BlackBerry Z30.09-05-14 06:36 PMLike 0 - Yes, the Z30 was on my consideration list for this fall, but unfortunately looks like its gone from Verizon.
I'm actually not in a rush to make a change, just starting to research and evaluate my options given the recently launched and upcoming devices for this fall from Apple, BlackBerry, and Samsung.
Having spent years with the Tour (9630), Storm 1, Storm 2, and Bold (9930); I'm comfortable going back to a BB device with a physical keyboard - if it has the tool belt and decent specs that will last for a few years. I think email and messaging capabilities will be great from what I've read about BB10.
FM radio would be a bonus and a compelling differentiator in my view.Last edited by Dog5000; 09-06-14 at 09:17 AM.
09-05-14 06:50 PMLike 0 - I hope they drop FM radio. If they want to go the route of streaming, they should promote Spotify or similar service. Would be a great idea to see BBRY move into music and offer streaming from their cloud into the handset, even better if they find a way to do it w/out hitting your data plan (much like bbm and email, back in the day, didn't hit your data plan). Streaming is the future of mobile tech as we put more high-res videos and high-quality FLAC audio content on phones, storage isn't keeping up, and even if it did there's added weight and size dimensions to be dealt with.
They should drop FM radio. Focus on developing tools that are valuable to a broad set of users. Save the space and weight inside the device from the FM antenna. Focus on building what matters - a great music app, a great video player, and ways (via cloud) to stream content to our devices without destroying our mobile phone bill. That's what Amazon attempted (and didn't) do with it's newest phone, when they didn't make Amazon streaming free and unincluded in the data portion of your bill. The street was disappointed with that, and for apple to focus on cramming an FM radio in there would add very little value and take engineers eyes off of more important tasks like updating OS 10, making a better brower, making a better media player, computer to phone sync features, wireless syncing, NFC, wireless charging, etc etc. In the list of things a company should be worried about, FM radio is so low it shouldn't be included. Users who JUST MUST have FM radio can already stream it for free off the websites of (most) major radio stations.
?Posted without the aid of AutoCorrect with my physical keyboard via CB1009-05-14 09:29 PMLike 0 - I hope they drop FM radio. If they want to go the route of streaming, they should promote Spotify or similar service. Would be a great idea to see BBRY move into music and offer streaming from their cloud into the handset, even better if they find a way to do it w/out hitting your data plan (much like bbm and email, back in the day, didn't hit your data plan). Streaming is the future of mobile tech as we put more high-res videos and high-quality FLAC audio content on phones, storage isn't keeping up, and even if it did there's added weight and size dimensions to be dealt with.
They should drop FM radio. Focus on developing tools that are valuable to a broad set of users. Save the space and weight inside the device from the FM antenna. Focus on building what matters - a great music app, a great video player, and ways (via cloud) to stream content to our devices without destroying our mobile phone bill. That's what Amazon attempted (and didn't) do with it's newest phone, when they didn't make Amazon streaming free and unincluded in the data portion of your bill. The street was disappointed with that, and for apple to focus on cramming an FM radio in there would add very little value and take engineers eyes off of more important tasks like updating OS 10, making a better brower, making a better media player, computer to phone sync features, wireless syncing, NFC, wireless charging, etc etc. In the list of things a company should be worried about, FM radio is so low it shouldn't be included. Users who JUST MUST have FM radio can already stream it for free off the websites of (most) major radio stations.
Regardless, I really like the FM radio on my BB Q5. Works great and doesn't use data and needs no network connection. In other words.... free. I don't see how dropping a free option is a good thing. One more attribute BB has that some other manufacturers do not.
BTW, the antennae is your headphones so it adds no weight to the device.09-05-14 09:50 PMLike 0 -
Posted via CB1009-05-14 10:43 PMLike 0 - I'm not speaking to a trade off in features. FM radio, to me, shouldn't be about adding features just because 5% of users think it's "cool" or "will make their data usage lower". The question isn't one of trading off one feature for another, it's about making a device that has a specific goal in mind (a high end productivity device for business oriented users, I hope) and only building features that promote that goal.
Sure an FM radio is cool. But if you're sitting in a strategy meeting at BBRY and can only make the phone do 100 things, then you list what's important, rank all the ideas, and do what's most important in the top 100. My sole point is that FM radio isn't in the top 500 most important things I can think of that blackberry could be building into this phone. Cool? Yes. Worth devoting time and resources away from something else, like improving memory allocation, upgrading pixel density in the display, upgrading the backlight, they build quality, the featureset of bbm, running android apps more smoothly in qnx, etc are - to me - all more important.
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