OK, actually not really going to talk about the music part of the phone since I’m still comfortable with my iriver H10.

One of the new features for N78 is the FM Transmitter. Was wondering why this particular feature in a phone. Nevertheless tried it out, not bad, I can receive the signal clearly on my other phones compared to one transmitter I purchased few years back. I tried changing to another frequency, one that’s presently in used.

One can still receive the signals though the radio station’s signal is stronger. You need to be near to the receiver before the signal can be overridden.

Ok, maybe I’ve found a way to use it - to disrupt listeners of radio stations.
btw loudspeaker will not be able to turn on when transmitter was activated. The transmitter is good for sharing music but bad if the owner and friends are not responsible enough. Imagine previously it was only one person blasting songs on the loudspeaker, now everyone in the group just need to tune in to the frequency and turn on their loudspeaker.
On the other hand, if they just listen via earphone, that will be great!

Nokia’s Internet Radio application was already available for N95-8gb to download, but was too lazy to install. Since it is in N78, I sure did some testing on it. One thing to note was that using the Internet Radio sure sucked the juice out of the phone real fast. Wow, after playing for less than 30 min, the battery indicator just went down and down.

Station directory you can search by genre, language, country and also the Top stations.

One way to preserve the battery yet wanted to use the Internet Radio might be using lower settings.

I tried the internet radio in the afternoon on different days. Buffering was real fast on the first try. Subsequent tries find myself kept getting time out message. Most likely it’s the internet problem.

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