[Galaxy S III General] btemtd:
MAJOR EDIT TO THIS POST AS NEW KNOWLEDGE HAS COME THROUGH. (BUT YOU MAY KILL THIS THREAD AND GO INTO THE I9305 forum and go into the I9305 Tear down thread)

The I9305 may or may not have hardware capability for FM radio, But the firmware software doesn't have it installed. The funny thing about this is even the Optus Customer service and technical support are not aware of this, they do beleive they are supposed to have the FM radio.

MOBICITY sells it and there specs show FM radio and I even asked there customer service again and made them triple check and they confirm it has it and I seen a youtube video of the White version but this is from UK and its definitely having the FM radio app. So Maybe some developers can get involved or maybe not, If there is a 3rd party app around that will work in place of the Fm radio app then if it can be posted it would be great thanks. EDIT: Mobicity Now changed and said Because they are coming from Hong Kong there wont be FM radio Installed as per hong Kong Laws. Specs have now been changed on there site a i told them it was false advertising lool

Edit: Apparent Proof that FM radio is in some I9305 >>> http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=VGICeramJxc Look @1:14 4th column 3rd row you see FM radio app- I also messaged the guy and he confirmed it working, Edit: User Said he heard static, Then after more people interrigated him, he seemed to have changed his waysss and said he thought static meant Silence :eek: I then questioned him aswell but I basically called B S . In electrical terms static means Hissing/white noise/ Scramble. etcc...... He then questioned me as to why he had it pre-installed on his I9305 ... Apparent I9305??? Is it even a I9305 in the video Or a changed Build.Prop to show different Model number I9305. Can be done in 10 seconds. Cause why would samsung put the Radio FM app in it and its not working. NOT 1 Confirmed I9305 has the FM radio app. Except for that guy. Hmmm..u get my point now.. Anyway After he questioned as to y he had radio I told him to question where he bought it anyways that is the last i heard of him.

More Edit : We have a 9305 Hardware teardown thread, and as we are not hardware minded we cannot confirm 100% yet. Although we do know we have the a broadcom Chipset with the capabilities of FM radio, but the problem there is it is not linked up. So really then we do have the hardware but its not plugged in. Just like the I9300 has The broadcom one which is not hooked up and the Silicon labs which is hooked up, Now i dont think we could locate the silicon labs chipset on the i9305 board from a few pictures show.

SO far there is no 100% proof of this radio so untill then , I say it does not have FM radio. Unless some that knows chips and fm chips please go into the teardown thread and advise us so we may solve this query

As I said I have only seen 1 with the FM radio that you-tube link above shows it and I also emailed the user and he confirmed it working but then after more thorough interrogating the user changed the meanings of his words loll. Anyway Kill this thread. Come into the I9305 arena and go into the (I9305 Teardown thread) if you want to discuss this topic