[joelang1699]

Just noticed theres no internet radio either, bumber man!

[radical24]

that is correct, hopefully it will become avaliable soon for us it is sad that other n series have it and a flagship is missing it, what in the world is that all about. 

[ercanmetin]

It comes with a fm radio what is it 1950's technology?
Nokia, how can you ship N97 without the Nokia Internet Radio Pre installed I have no idea!
hmm, wait a second I think I know.. The device don't have enough memory on C: to have it installed? )))
and probably not enough RAM to run it! pipets

[ecosix]

YES, we want internet radio and not just FM !! please !!

[tobbykhan]

yeah this is a draw back of not having an internet radio. hopefully the version 11 thats currently under progress on my n97 will have the internet radio!

lets keep our fingers crossed!

[easy1355]

Don't moan...... moan to them.. yes Nokia! Cos your right, it's rediculous that this Flagship has shipped without it!! what the hell was Nokia thinking.......

[audiobear]

could not agree more.  This seems to be a lamentable omission.  What was Nokia thinking of when it issued it's flagship phone that does less than the other N series phones?

[easy1355]

Currently onto Nokia (phone never answer) line.... going to try to find out what is going on... or at least a date for it's release... I have been holding for 15 minutes!!

I would have thought that Internet radio would have been a minimum, in-fact I was wondering how it would be improved on the N97..

JUST GOT THROUGH--- same ole same ole 'we will be getting it, but when we don't know' 

Not good enough Nokia!

[joelang1699]

I agree this is rather bad, but the FM transmitter is a nice addition. Not that its a replacement for Net radio in anyway!

AND where is the Home Media function for sharing over WIFI?

Has anyone found that!

[mmostafaei]

yes i totally agree that not having internet radio for an internet phone is more like a joke lol but i managed somehow to make it work with Real Player built in the N97, well at least till they hopefully realize they should release an internet radio version for N97

what i did was this :

1) Opened an ORB account at http://www.orb.com/

2) Downloaded it / installed it and run it on my PC and shared all my music that i might want to listen to with my nokia N97

3) Went to http://mycast.orb.com/orb/html/index.html from my PC and on top clicked on OPEN APPLICATION / AUDIO

4) Under Internet Radio, I added my favourite channels ( Like DI ocal Trance and URL:  

http://scfire-mtc-aa02.stream.aol.com:80/stream/1065 )

5) From N97 i went to http://mycast.orb.com/orb/html/index.html and logged in and went to radio stations i added.

6) Clicked on the radio station i wanted to hear and Real Player starts playing t after

This method works as long as your PC is on and it is running ORB

[ecosix]

Hi ALL, I just logged in to store.ovi.com and the first thing I notice was Nokia internet radio APP. but when I when to download it, it dissaper!! has any MOD know anything about this new app?

I looked the whole store and it was GONE !!

so, I hope it show up soon. !! WE NEED and WANT internet radio.

[hape_n95]

Hei, the internet radio exists in Ovi, but not for N97. After you have logget to Ovi, only the programs that are available for N97 are shown.Have you the same experience?

[joelang1699]

Yeah, thats what happened to me last night!

[easy1355]

OK peeps,

the only real alternative until Nokia get their act into gear....

http://download11.getjar.com/downloads/web/pub/59237/VRadio.jar

It does work, in my opinion a little lacking compared to the Nokia, but to be fair, I have only been using it for the last day, works well in the car, it does drop occasionally, but it's mostly fine...

But, give it a go, let me know if it works for you, or if the link dont...

http://www.getjar.com/products/16507/VirtualRadio (the page I copied the link from...

[easy1355]

Or have a look at these, some of them won't work, and I haven't tried them all.. 

But seem internet radio downloads seem promising.

http://www.getjar.com/software/universal/all/Search/internet+fm+radio+software

[ecosix]

Thanks, I will give it a try now. here is another link that I just found.

virtual radio streaming

[inetradio]

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ercanmetin wrote:

It comes with a fm radio what is it 1950's technology?
Nokia, how can you ship N97 without the Nokia Internet Radio Pre installed I have no idea!
hmm, wait a second I think I know.. The device don't have enough memory on C: to have it installed? )))
and probably not enough RAM to run it! pipets

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I think that they don't want any free music from the internet radio rival their music shop. Or maybe they had a little backstage talk with the major cell phone carriers. I bet they had the internet radio not in their equation for flat rate data plans. What other reasons could they have for even stripping the real player from nearly all features that support streaming media like inet radio? 
What ever reasons the might have had, they failed in their effort to keep the N97 internet radio free:
http://www.vesihiisi.org/symbian/
(A S60 5th port of the open source version of the Nokia internet radio)
Looks a little old school but works perfectly well.
Problem solved!

[geivin]

For me it looks like Nokia is ignoring it's costumers. In these times, this is a big mistake! After getting my N97, and 5800 for my wife, and kids (3) I'll find out that these phones lack 1. Internet phone (SIP), 2. Internet Radio, 3. Wlan browser (SMB). The sound quality of the N97, are quest able. For me this only means that I need to find an another phone suppler. I have read some blogs on the net. Where they talk about Nokia deleting services because Orange, and 3 are demanding it. The past history of computers, and gadgets teaches us that ignoring the customers was the biggest mistake a company did, before it was sold, or went out of business. I hope Nokia examines its sales figures, and see what they are about to do. I ignored the N96, because it did not offer any more functionality than N95. In fact it offered less. If Nokia don't update these functionalities and more on the new N97, I will guaranty you that this is the last Nokia phone I'll ever will buy. And as a computer specialist, I will share my stories with all those that ask me about my experiences with the N97 phone.

[vinitbipinjain]

I agree with you. Nokia has gone extra mile avoiding their customers.

I am really upset with nokia for the first time. And I am not going to buy another nokia in my life. I have also updated my blogs and other people about not taking Nokia mobiles.

They have cheated users.

[easy1355]

You are completely right, I never thought I would be able to say anything bad about Nokia, but they have really let us down, N97 is like having the best looking partner, but they are so stupid they are just embarrasing.

Memory problems - Always filling up - even with the solutions which NONE of us should even know how to do.

NO INTERNET radio - This should be standard, instead I had to buy it.... and even now, I can't use it at the same time as my maps or navigation in the car whilst driving! the CPU can't take it. 

The camera doesn't even seem as good as the N95... 

It keeps forgetting the Email I have set up, thought it was me, but clearly not given even the briefest look at the forums. the Widgets (what there is available with the pile of useless rubbish availble) downloaded from OVI keep crashing, and I no-longer trust the Facebook application

The touchscreen interface in some places requires a double click! WHY NOKIA!

For as many years as I can remember, myself and my partner have insisted on Nokia, not anymore.