Nokia's N800 secretly packing an FM radio chip?
By Darren Murph 
posted February 8th 2007 9:23AM
posted February 8th 2007 9:23AM
Alright manufacturers, we're totally down with throwing in a bit of draft-N love or even a free FM radio, but seriously, why not activate the goods (without some controversial fee) before shipping these things out? Nokia's N800 Internet Tablet has withstood its fair share of unboxing and dissecting experiments already, and while we've seen one episode of a less-than-thrilling implementation of FM today, the N800's dirty little secret could have been a nice inclusion. If you're wondering why all those reviews never mentioning tuning into their favorite FM station while plugging away, it's likely because only a curious file dweller would find such a gem, and discover he did. Andrew Barr reportedly unearthed an FM radio chip built right into the N800, and even found a dedicated software folder where the application to run it was held. Nokia would probably suggest that a simple lack of time is the reason behind the half-hearted attempt, but if you're still not a believer that the N800 plays nice with those ho hum, commercial-filled broadcasts you love to hate, click on through for a live demonstration.[Via InternetTabletTalk]
Nokia posted a great FM radio app a day or two ago on maemo.org. You simply plug in a set of headphones or external speakers, and the wiring works as the external FM antenna. Mine picked up stations as far away as 90 miles.
Yeah, I installed the FM radio applications last night. Good reception in my apartment. Pretty nice feature for getting music and news (well, NPR, everything else is shit in around here) without internet or a pre-packed library.
Can anybody please tell me what is the maximum video resolution I can playback for a divx file?
Will this thing play 640*480 Divx video @ 24 fps?
Please let me know
400*240 gives me good, smooth playback at around 1100Kb/sec total (audio and video) at 24fps with MPEG-4 compression with the built-in media player. I wouldn't recommend any other codec at the moment because MPEG-4 gives the best playback. MPlayer doesn't work right for me right now (other people have had better luck, but the N800 version still needs work), but full-resolution (800x480) at 24-30fps may be possible in the future one the hardware video processor is opened up. MPlayer will probably be able to do 640x480-ish at 20-24fps soon.
its not so secretly packing an onboard 3d engine as well, but its unused.
Doesn't anyone listen to AM radio anymore? I do. Local News, Air America.