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<span style="font-size: 14pt">Apple's iPhone may have radio hidden inside</span></span>
October 15, 2009
Lesley Ciarula Taylor
Rumours are swirling online that Apple is about to wake up a sleeping app that will allow you to tune in FM radio from your iPhone.
The 9to5Mac website reports today that it has a tip that the iPhone radio.app is being developed in-house for the iPhone and iPod touch. The new iPod Nanos already have the ability to listen to FM radio.
What's holding up the release, the site said, is that Apple "is trying to integrate the Mobile iTunes Store purchases into the functionality of the program."
"For instance, if you like a song you are listening to on the radio (and that station supports tagging and you are in the U.S.), you will be able to push a button and see the song (and all of the information around it) in the iTunes Mobile store. With another click, you'll be able to make a purchase."
At least one Apple geek is not thrilled by the news. Charlie Sorrell's Gadget Lab blog at Wired reports: "What great news. Now there will be, along with the stocks application, yet another app that I will never use yet cannot remove from my iPod."
The 9to5Mac site said Apple has done this before: "Apple sometimes chooses to leave hardware features dormant in their products until they feel the time is right." It cited Bluetooth in its iPod and one level of wireless networking in its latest iPhones and iPods.
<span style="font-size: 14pt">Apple's iPhone may have radio hidden inside</span></span>
October 15, 2009
Lesley Ciarula Taylor
Rumours are swirling online that Apple is about to wake up a sleeping app that will allow you to tune in FM radio from your iPhone.
The 9to5Mac website reports today that it has a tip that the iPhone radio.app is being developed in-house for the iPhone and iPod touch. The new iPod Nanos already have the ability to listen to FM radio.
What's holding up the release, the site said, is that Apple "is trying to integrate the Mobile iTunes Store purchases into the functionality of the program."
"For instance, if you like a song you are listening to on the radio (and that station supports tagging and you are in the U.S.), you will be able to push a button and see the song (and all of the information around it) in the iTunes Mobile store. With another click, you'll be able to make a purchase."
At least one Apple geek is not thrilled by the news. Charlie Sorrell's Gadget Lab blog at Wired reports: "What great news. Now there will be, along with the stocks application, yet another app that I will never use yet cannot remove from my iPod."
The 9to5Mac site said Apple has done this before: "Apple sometimes chooses to leave hardware features dormant in their products until they feel the time is right." It cited Bluetooth in its iPod and one level of wireless networking in its latest iPhones and iPods.