I'm not sure what you mean, but I know for certain that text replies to NextMail messages come right into my Nextel phone, ready to read with no "downloading" step as you mention. They consistently hit my phone within 5 or at most 10 seconds after the sender clicks Send/Receive on their PC. SIlilarly, when I release the PTT button, my voice recording is in the person's Outlook inbox within a few seconds.

Maybe regular text messaging is different than NextMail replies, but Nextel's NextMail has no such issue as you describe.

The text messaging that comes with NextMail works great; it is SMS over the iDEN network. It usually only takes 5 esconds for text messages to reach my phone; maximum delay I've ever encountered in the past 2+ years using NextMail is 15 seconds.

Is that the MMS messaging? I didn't see anything referring to NextMail on the Nextel site.

Nextel actually uses both. You can send someone an SMS message if say, you have a computer. You would need to address the message as their cell number @page.nextel.com. Numeric messages can be sent via the voicemail system by pressing #1 during the greeting, then entering your callback number. Anytime I've tried this out, my phone rings almost the second I hang up. Same way with the computer text message. The only bad thing about Nextel SMS is it's totally one way. You cannot directly respond to an SMS message, you have to do two way messaging for this. Newer Nextel phones are set up where you don't have to go through the internet menu in order to send text messages to someone.Now, you can key up their phonebook entry and send one that way, ...
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Sorry, I didn't see your reply until today. The NextMail info can be found by:
From the main Nextel homepage (www.Nextel.com), click on "Service & Features click on "Walkie Talkie", then scroll down and click on NextMail (near the bottom of the page).
Hopefully this link will work for you:
http://www.nextel.com/en/services/walkietalkie/nextm ... »

It's a great feature. I son't know why more people don't use it.

on a serious note. IDEN is not known for great data.

Believe it or not. Personally, I don't text a whole lot anyway because to me it's an enormous waste of time. Unless I'm in a situation where I can't talk on the phone (e.g. a meeting), I'd just rather pick up the phone and call the person. Much quicker and easier. As far as what Nextel is known or not known for, all one has to do to find out is check with complaints filed with the FCC on wireless carriers. Nextel beats Sprint PCS in EVERY SINGLE CATEGORY! Only Verizon (and that's nationwide) beats Nextel, and at that not by much. Sprint PCS has MORE dropped calls, MORE voicemail problems, MORE circuits busy problems, etc. This whole 'Nextel has bad network problems' is a complete load of crap invented by Sprint to justify shutting down the I...
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Believe it or not. Personally, I don't text a whole lot anyway because to me it's an enormous waste of time. Unless I'm in a situation where I can't talk on the phone (e.g. a meeting), I'd just rather pick up the phone and call the person. Much quicker and easier. As far as what Nextel is known or not known for, all one has to do to find out is check with complaints filed with the FCC on wireless carriers. Nextel beats Sprint PCS in EVERY SINGLE CATEGORY! Only Verizon (and that's nationwide) beats Nextel, and at that not by much. Sprint PCS has MORE dropped calls, MORE voicemail problems, MORE circuits busy problems, etc. This whole 'Nextel has bad network problems' is a complete load of crap invented by Spri

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no nextel is not known for data. IDEN is almost slower then dial up so how do you figure. I never said anything about anything else. But I have had sprint for 5 years now and I can count on both hands how many dropped calls or calls that couldn't go through.

I'm talking about applications, not speed. While Sprint and other carriers have focused on music downloads and live t.v., Nextel has focused on GPS and business type applications for their customer base. The reason you don't see high speed internet services on IDEN that you see on CDMA or GSM based networks is not because of limitations to IDEN, but simply a lack of investment into those things from third party entities. A lot of money is being invested into research and development for CDMA based wireless services, and that worldwide. Only Nextel and SouthernLinc use IDEN in the U.S. and both of these companies represent very small segments of the marketplace, so there has been very little interest by anyone to develop much in the way of da...
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