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2009-08-08 , 18:40
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Originally Posted by attila77 View Post
a) a FM receiver uses a (microscopic) fraction of power compared to Pandora over 3G which is almost a full-throttle thing. Oh, and it's $free$.
You're all forgetting RDS. That means you can pull down traffic information from FM sideband for GPS nav (or song information from whatever station you're listening to).

Heck, stick the Rover on a car holder, listen to FM with the car stereo and get the song and station info from the tablet.
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