Apple soon to activate ‘hidden’ FM radio in iPhone and iPod Touch?
It’s no secret that the iPod Touch is capable of more than Apple lets on – or rather, more than Apple will let the device do.
Last month a ‘teardown’ of the third-gen iPod Touch by iFixit revealed the presence of a Broadcom wireless chip which packs an FM receiver and FM transmitter (along with 5GHz 802.11n Wi-Fi). A refresh of the iPod Nano, released at the same time as the new Touch, added an FM radio along with support for ‘live pause’ and iTunes Tagging.
The former permits the user to pause a live FM broadcast and record the incoming stream onto the Nano’s flash memory for up to 15 minutes. Users can ‘rewind’ the recording and also use fast-forward to catch up to the live broadcast.
