Review: Kyocera Brigadier for Verizon Wireless
...but what about the PTT button?
Great review, thank you. The many photos allow one to really get a feel for what the phone looks like & how its built.
Because the Brigadier looks a lot like the Kyocera Torque from Sprint, I'm wondering if the Verizon version has the same wimpy PTT button that the Torque has. Any info on that will be appreciated.
The old Motorola PTT phones had excellent PTT buttons, honed from many years of feedback from two-way radio customers over several decades, and also by Nextel users over the last ten years of iDEN's life. But Kyocera's PTT buttons on all of their Sprint phones are incredibly wimpy, so easy to push that one can not use the One Touch DC functionality because the wimpy Torque PTT button causes untold numbers of unintended PTT ch...
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Because the Brigadier looks a lot like the Kyocera Torque from Sprint, I'm wondering if the Verizon version has the same wimpy PTT button that the Torque has. Any info on that will be appreciated.
The old Motorola PTT phones had excellent PTT buttons, honed from many years of feedback from two-way radio customers over several decades, and also by Nextel users over the last ten years of iDEN's life. But Kyocera's PTT buttons on all of their Sprint phones are incredibly wimpy, so easy to push that one can not use the One Touch DC functionality because the wimpy Torque PTT button causes untold numbers of unintended PTT ch...
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This doesn't have a PTT button, though I suppose you could set the programmable button to do it.
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enine said:
This doesn't have a PTT button, though I suppose you could set the programmable button to do it.
That programmable button is actually designed as a PTT button, here's an excerpt from the article:
"There's also a massive user-assignable action key. Kyocera told us that the Brigadier will receive PTT in a future update..."
If it was just a regular user-assignable button, it would be much smaller like all other buttons on the exterior. But it's huge so it can be easily found & pressed while wearing gloves, and it's placed exactly where the PTT buttons have been on most other PTT phones for the past 15 years.
As with all PTT phones, if a user does not subscribe to PTT on their line, the ...
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