[wayneholbrook]

Is it possible to recieve am / fm radio from your blackberry? I see alot of phones like samsung that now have this feature on there phones. Is there any 3rd party applications that offer this on the BB'S????

[absoluteevel]

No, but you could stream the audio from the internet.

The radio in the BlackBerry would have to support those frequencies, and as far as I know they do not.

[rivviepop]

Originally Posted by wayneholbrook

Is it possible to recieve am / fm radio from your blackberry? I see alot of phones like samsung that now have this feature on there phones. Is there any 3rd party applications that offer this on the BB'S????

You need an actual FM receiver which is (in phone parlance) a chip on the mainboard - these phones have actual FM receivers engineered right into the industrial design of the handset, many of them using the headphone cord as their antennae instead of having one inside (which is smart, technically). A Nokia with FM, for instance, refuses to even run if the headset isn't plugged in because it's the antennae.

The best you're going to do is find an app which will stream AM/FM radio from their server to you over EDGE/WiFi (think like XM Radio or Sirius) much like you listen to Internet radio from Shoutcast servers.

[Helmdawg]

Has anyone been able to stream XM or sirius to their curve? if so, how?

Thanks

[absoluteevel]

XM has an agreement with AT&T to stream to their pearls, so I would assume it would also function with the Curve since the underlying software is the same.

Being on T-Mobile, I have not had success. I did download the app, but it got upset because I was not on an AT&T IP.

[dwc]

Please make a new thread if you ever find any streaming audio apps for the tmob 83xx. This would be huge.