Hello guys recently i was going through the specs of nokia n78 and apparently it has a fm transmitter!!

Now imagine how wonderful it would be if this feature would be included in the next internet tablet. Especially since many of us will use the gps and the sound from the external speakers is quite inaudible while driving
it would be great if we could use our fm stereo in the car to listen to the gps prompts and also our podcasts/audio/ video wirelessly through
the car speakers.

I think this is a very important feature which will make the internet tablets far more useful with just a little input.

Please make this thread bigger by replying so that who ever is concerned with the development of the tablets take notice and include this feature in the future.

And this is a special request to texrat and mara to please notify of the concerned officials regardign the fm transmitter.

Thanks

In general, fm transmitters don't work that well in cars. Unless it would provide some sort of direct, non-wireless, non fm type transmitter.

An increasing number of car stereos has a builtin bluetooth receiver with AD2P profile. e.g. Sony MEX BT 2500.

All Nokia has to do is to officially add the AD2P profile with one of the next firmware upgrades.

So no need to add an FM transmitter to the next IT which would just increase the power consumption and the price tag.

Well i have been using an DYNEX fm transmitter since 2 years and it has been working pretty good. I brought it for 40$ in best buy. Generally the problem with fm transmitters is that you got to select the best frequency without interference.

Here is a website where you can find open fm frequencies in your city according to zip code. If you use the free ones the disturbance is quite less. I agree the quality is not stellar but it reduces so much wires in the car.

For example i have two extra wires when i use an external fm transmitter ... one to power the transmitter and the other is the audio wire which goes from my n800 to the transmitter. If an fm transmitter is included in the n900 itslef... then it reduces two wires.

In my opinion it is a lot comfortable.

I agree that is a good idea. But the problem is that until atleast 1 year we are not going to see A2dp in almost all cars. Whereas fm radios have been present in all cars and will be present in all cars in the future.

FM transmitters work quite well in a car if you find an unused frequency. But in city areas the whole FM band is usually polluted with stations and dozens of mirror-frequencies of stations. Unmounting the external antenna may help.

- you're correct about the crowded band conditions, but i would suspect a poorly engineered receiver for the 'mirror-frequencies' problem...

- can anyone chime in on how well bluetooth works for audio transmission/reception?

(have never used or heard BT speakers or headphones)

I did test the AD2P hack described here in the forum with a bluetooth headset and the audio quality is great.
Only disadvantage is, that it's a pain in the *** to set this up and also the 50% CPU usage is not so nice. Hopefully Nokia will add official and better integrated support for AD2P in the future.

I'm planning to buy a new car stereo (Sony MEX BT 5000) in the not so far future. I'll give some feedback here, how the audio quality is when connecting my N800 via bluetooth to the MEX BT 5000.

That's true. Products like Scosche's UBR add A2DP support to existing in-dash units at a fairly low price though.