topic Re: Hardware limitation or blocked FM APP? in X Series

No Fm radio?

Bhonder — Mon, 22 Feb 2016 22:35:40 GMT

FM radio Is not listed.
It only on Xa phone.

Re: No Fm radio?

_alexdon_ — Mon, 22 Feb 2016 22:39:31 GMT

According to GSM arena, X has it too:

http://www.gsmarena.com/sony_xperia_x-7948.php

It's only XP that doesn't have. Not sure for now as everyone has different specs. Perhaps sony mobile website should be trusted the most.

Re: No Fm radio?

piotrom_87 — Tue, 23 Feb 2016 18:48:02 GMT

Let's wait for official response from Sony Support Team and hope both phones will have FM Radio module.

Re: No Fm radio?

Rickard — Wed, 24 Feb 2016 08:50:08 GMT

The white paper for Xperia XA and Xperia X says that they have a FM-radio but it's not mentioned in the white paper for Xperia Performance. I'll see if i can get more information about it.

Re: No Fm radio?

Rickard — Thu, 25 Feb 2016 08:30:14 GMT

I got the information confirmed and Xperia Performance does not have a FM-radio.

Re: No Fm radio?

RobertoDS — Thu, 25 Feb 2016 10:15:51 GMT

Wow nice choose from Sony

And this XP should replace Z5 ?

I think in Sony, everyone is out of mind

Except Rickard 😛

Re: No Fm radio?

Lord_viridis — Thu, 25 Feb 2016 12:48:45 GMT

Tbh I haven't used an fm radio on my phone in years, most stations are available to stream live now.

Re: No Fm radio?

Bhonder — Thu, 25 Feb 2016 15:19:33 GMT

Yes but stream punch against data plan. FM don't.

Plus, in case of emergency, if you have no Internet, you can always rely on radio for the news.

Re: No Fm radio?

aad14 — Thu, 25 Feb 2016 16:40:05 GMT

I'm glad I found out, I just wanted to pre-order the X Performance but no FM = no buy. There's absolutely no reason to remove it, because the SD820 supports it (the G5 does have FM). Then why have they removed it? At least you can give your users a choice if they want to delete it or not. I guess I have to look somewhere else for a new phone...

Re: No Fm radio?

Bhonder — Fri, 26 Feb 2016 00:20:44 GMT

Xiaomi MI5 128gb. Just introduced few days ago.

Has radio too and seems amazing and relatively cheap.
It has optical stabilization and a lot of features.

Re: No Fm radio?

RobertoDS — Fri, 26 Feb 2016 11:40:40 GMT

Bad bad move to remove something always present in our Xperia Z

RadioFM is something really good when u're on a beach, and u've a bad connession or u want just listen your prefered frequences without impacting on our little plan data !!!

BAD BAD BAD MOVE

Re: No Fm radio?

aad14 — Fri, 26 Feb 2016 15:46:39 GMT

Rickard, did they also tell you why they removed the FM-radio? And will there be a chance that they will add it again (as it's most likely software related because other SD820 phones do have it)? Anyways, I hope they won't do this again with future Xperia's, because it will hurt their sales I believe.

Re: No Fm radio?

Bhonder — Fri, 26 Feb 2016 22:24:05 GMT

So long and thanks for all the fish...

Without FM radio, for me and my wife, the next one will be definitively an Apple device. Sony has some years to correct their path, by the way, because our terminals are quite new.

It is an odd move, by the way. Many people bought this phone for Fm Radio. After all, Sony is a multimedia company: video, music and radio should be the core business. If they ditch the radio, they throw away one of the few distinguishing things from other android phones.

Oddly, in many countries, nextRadio is becoming an high selling application while we had FM right from the start.

Re: No Fm radio?

RobertoDS — Fri, 04 Mar 2016 15:41:30 GMT

It seems as they're copying Samsung's strategy :

On midrangephone u can find FM RADIO

On toprange u can't !!!

Clear as the sun ...

BAD BAD MOVE.

Re: No Fm radio?

Bhonder — Fri, 04 Mar 2016 19:59:42 GMT

Which brings to the point where we ask why we should invest 800 € in a Sony rather than to a Galaxy s7 or an iphone that have the same limitations of this device but with a lot of other more things.

Speaking of which, have you seen the camera section of the new S7 or the side bar links of the edge? Practically all the things Sony took away from his devices and a lot of better other stuff. The moving panorama is amazing.

Re: No Fm radio?

Hei133 — Sat, 12 Mar 2016 15:12:26 GMT

X performance is smaller in screen and battery yet thicker and heavier than Z5. Cannot understand why fm radio was removed when Z5 could have it.

Was waiting for a new Xperia phone to replace my Z2 this year. Now I feel not so keen to wait for X performance since it does not even have fm. Maybe I'll get cheaper Z5 with full feature set now that it is receiving Marshmallow Or maybe even Galaxy S7.

Re: No Fm radio?

Lordtato — Mon, 14 Mar 2016 01:51:19 GMT

No radio, no sell.

I use the fm radio every day.

I don't like the streaming services. I've already have all the mp3 I want.

There isn't much improve between z5 and x performance.

Re: No Fm radio?

aad14 — Sun, 20 Mar 2016 15:18:45 GMT

Can we get an answer why they removed it and if it will be future policy?

Re: No Fm radio?

ratacit — Thu, 07 Apr 2016 12:01:23 GMT

You'll never get that answer...

Lack of radio might push me to Samsung S7 even though I do really like the shutter button on the Sony

Re: No Fm radio?

hedrox87 — Wed, 04 May 2016 06:53:29 GMT

4K recording also not metioned, did they dropped it also? I would understand that move in out-dated Z2 when there wasn't any cheap 4K TV but now in 2016 where almost 3 of 10 bought TV's are 4K? Not quite understandable move for a "future" device. And agreed with above FM lack is a kick for data plan even if I have 10 Gigs per month with Z2 I'm left with only 2 gigs in the end of the month so normal meiling, Fb, twitt and whatsApp my Z2 consumes 8 gigs a month... now let's add FM streaming from web... Don't like it. Seriously thinking bout Z5 but camera blur issue drives me crazy. Maybe Z3+ would be a better choice afterall or might be just the last proper sony without defects.