Starting from today and continuing on into next week, I’ll be giving you some information about one feature a day of the Touch Diamond that you know little about or you probably want to find out more about that particular feature.
Today, I’ll be starting with the FM Radio (not to be random or anything…:D). Let’s start out by giving a physical description. The FM Radio antenna isn’t actually in the Touch Diamond, it’s in the headphones. Unfortunately, this means that you must plug in your headphones into your Diamond to listen to the radio. Never fear, by touching the headphone icon on the FM Radio program shown below, you can toggle between using the device speakers and the headphones, but you still will have the headphones dangling out of the ExtUSB port.
Once you open the actual software, you find a nice very clean interface that goes with the rest of TouchFLO 3D. At the top, the text toggles between radio frequency and the radio station name, giving you the name of the song playing below. In the center, you have nav buttons to search for other networks above or below the current frequency automatically or manually. You can also choose for mono/stereo audio, speaker/headphone output and mute/unmute volume here. At the bottom, there are six slots available for presets.
When you first plugin the headphones, the Diamond will automatically scan the area for signals and designate the six presets to the first clear channels it can find. The sound quality is very loud and crisp, with the two headphones giving you the sensation of a miniature home theater system in your ears.
It’s a pretty amazing experience, though it’s even better with the music player in TouchFLO 3D. Look for that feature next time.
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