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Re: Don't buy the HD2 or you will be sorry!

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Originally Posted by darnell View Post
And the FM Radio on my HD2 is working great too. Shame Sprint intentionally hobbled the FM Radio on my old Touch Pro.
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Originally Posted by zim2323 View Post
From what I understand this is a limitation of CDMA hardware, NOT that the carrier purposefully hobbled the phone. Did I miss something about this?
Not sure where you might have heard that. Plenty of knowledgable people looked into the matter and none came to that conclusion from what I've read.

You can see things like this in particular:
http://www.nuerom.com/BlogEngine/pos...-FM-Radio.aspx

and

http://forum.ppcgeeks.com/showpost.p...8&postcount=44

Sprint has their own radio service built into the SprintTV app and they don't like competition on devices that have their brand on them.
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