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Nextel's iDEN network offered a then unique push-to-talk "walkie-talkie" feature in addition to direct-dialed voice calls. Nextel was one of the first providers in the United States to offer a national digital cellular coverage footprint. Prior to merging with Sprint Corporation in 2005, Nextel Communications, Inc. was a publicly traded company.
Typical walkie-talkies resemble a telephone handset, with a speaker built into one end and a microphone in the other (in some devices the speaker also is used as the microphone) and an antenna mounted on the top of the unit. They are held up to the face to talk. A walkie-talkie is a half-duplex communication device. Multiple walkie-talkies use ...
PowerSource phones used the Sprint network for interconnect (regular voice phone calls) and the Nextel network for walkie-talkie calls. They did this through the implementation of two radios in each unit—a 1900 MHz CDMA radio for Sprint and an 800 MHz iDEN radio for Nextel.
The Sony Ericsson Z500a, released in December 2004, [3] was released through Cingular Wireless [3] and Dobson Cellular. [4] The phone has push-to-talk walkie-talkie functionality, but the handset was released before Cingular had rolled out their Push to Talk service.
Canopy – A line-of-sight wireless technology, primarily used by ISPs to provide broadband internet; MotoMESH – A mobile wireless broadband product providing proprietary "Mesh-Enabled Architecture" and standards-based 802.11 network access in both the unlicensed 2.4 GHz band and the licensed 4.9 GHz public-safety band
For millennials, those who grew up in the era right at the turn of the century, the early 2000s is filled with collectible items from a time where the internet was just taking off, cell phones ...
Solo Mobile offered a 10-4 walkie-talkie service during the company's renaissance, from 2005 until mid-2009. This was heavily promoted with the slogan "Cell Phone. Walkie talkie. Spread The Word." Blabble is a Facebook application launched by Solo Mobile in September 2008. A photo tagging application, users could add quotes through speech ...
IN FOCUS: The use of old-fashioned tech to spark a series of deadly explosions across Lebanon and Syria has left many wondering, how safe are any of our devices? Technology expert Jonathan ...