That phone your talking about would be the boulder. In fact there's a demo of it being in a fish tank and the guy reaches in and makes a call. I love it when nextel guys come on here waving the big flag of reliability of nextel PTT service. Not dogging on you personally. I came from Sprint/Nextel and I can't count how many time I would get the dreaded no PTT call sound.
Even with that said atleast we can make PTT calls in 1x area's. Neither nextel or sprints "new" PTT can say that. None of the PTT providers out there are perfect but VZW atleast sits ontop. The only thing VZW needs now is larger PTT phone line up.
The thing that helped make nextel so big was the fact that 1) in areas that they have service it works and works well.
2) The phones are rugged and LOUD very LOUD
3) all subscribers had walkie talkie service, period.
4) bussiness that use it dont have to worry about buying a perticular phone, they all had walkie talkie.
I like the boulder myself, but there is no way the speaker phone, walkie talkie speaker will ever be as loud and clear as a nextel phone.
Verizon needs nextel style phones, rugged, loud as h***, and just plain durable.
Oh and Nextel had huge numbers out of the bag come on man. VZW just released their PTT what 3 months ago. When the Alltel merger goes though
VZW will actually have the largest PTT network in the states. The numbers will come but building a PTT user base takes time.
Oh and Nextel had huge numbers out of the bag come on man. VZW just released their PTT what 3 months ago. When the Alltel merger goes though
VZW will actually have the largest PTT network in the states. The numbers will come but building a PTT user base takes time.
ym
I dont beleive they will surpass nextel unless nextel folds.
Like I posted, Nextel, all phones have push to talk on them so, for that reason only they are going to be the largest.
The only way verizon will surpass nextel is to start offering all users push to talk included in their plan and to give eveyone push to talk handsets.
This would never work though because there are a lot of subscribers with phones they will not want to part with.
1) I would say 80% of the time Nextel worked and this dates back to when came to ATL.
2) Can't agree with you more there.
3) Service isn't always good. Its related to the market your in.
4) Um you do realize Nextel has been under Sprint flag for some time now with handsets that are not Nextel don't you?
5) Sprint came up with up with "Q-Chat" as a bridge
between Nextel and Sprint base. Although it works for the most part why would a company come out with a product to "bridge" users under the same company if it didn't intend to "sell off" the Nextel name. Sprint can now say "oh we have PTT so you don't have to leave if your don't want to". We all know including myself if I was still with Sprint that I would pry for the day Nextel would be spun off and we could go back to being just Nextel with great CS, billing that was actually correct and service that was not looked at as a dieing tech but was time to expand.
6) VZW's PTT has been basically just rebuilt, been out like 3 or 4 months now and your expecting it to be 100% perfect. Nextel has been around ALLOT
longer and its no where close to perfect. You also expecting to have a ton of users right off the bat. Takes time to get there as it did Nextel.
ym
Originally Posted by fireredak
The thing that helped make nextel so big was the fact that 1) in areas that they have service it works and works well.
2) The phones are rugged and LOUD very LOUD
3) all subscribers had walkie talkie service, period.
4) bussiness that use it dont have to worry about buying a perticular phone, they all had walkie talkie.
I like the boulder myself, but there is no way the speaker phone, walkie talkie speaker will ever be as loud and clear as a nextel phone.
Verizon needs nextel style phones, rugged, loud as h***, and just plain durable.
The thing that helped make nextel so big was the fact that 1) in areas that they have service it works and works well.
2) The phones are rugged and LOUD very LOUD
3) all subscribers had walkie talkie service, period.
4) bussiness that use it dont have to worry about buying a perticular phone, they all had walkie talkie.
I like the boulder myself, but there is no way the speaker phone, walkie talkie speaker will ever be as loud and clear as a nextel phone.
Verizon needs nextel style phones, rugged, loud as h***, and just plain durable.
I went by the Verizon store yesterday and tried out the Boulder. It's a really nice phone, however, I agree that Verizon needs to make it louder. On a construction site or any area with a lot of background noise, The beep has to stand out in order to be heard.
I don't know of any phone that can beat the Boulder on water resistance though.
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the 750 is a nice phone i have one and it works good make sure he has the software update on it s/w ver 1 01.30.10p
Our work phones have 1 01.24.11p on them. Can you give me any idea what the new version fixes? Also, can it be downloaded OTA, or do we need to take them into a store to have them flashed?
Our work phones have 1 01.24.11p on them. Can you give me any idea what the new version fixes? Also, can it be downloaded OTA, or do we need to take them into a store to have them flashed?
To follow up on my own post, I called my local store this morning, and the lady I spoke to said she would highly encourage us to get the new firmware loaded, but she seemed to be pretty slammed, so I didn't ask her for specifics on what it did, and I'm not sure whether she would have known anyway. So can anyone enlighten me? Although PTT is good when we're in areas with very strong signal, it gets a bit unstable in weaker areas, especially when the EVDO signal drops to zero or one bar. I've also noticed intermittent connectivity issues, where I know a phone is switched on, yet it's impossible to connect to via PTT, but a standard call will connect just fine. I'm guessing this has something to do with a good data connection being needed for PTT call setup, and if data is unavailable or unreliable at that moment, the call fails. If EVDO is lost, the phone will eventually drop back to 1x, and PTT will work better, albeit with a slower connect time, but the phones seem to take a bit of time before they decide to revert to 1x, so PTT suffers in the meantime. Can we expect to see any improvements in the PTT area with the new firmware?
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