Sprint to stop selling certain push-to-talk phones
Sprint to stop selling certain push-to-talk phones
By DAVID TWIDDY (AP) – 3 hours ago
KANSAS CITY, Mo. — Sprint Nextel Corp. is giving up on a technology that allows some Sprint-branded phones to use a "push-to-talk" walkie-talkie service similar to what's available on the company's Nextel-branded phones.
Scott Sloat, a spokesman for the nation's third-largest wireless provider, said Sprint will still support customers who have phones with the technology, known as QChat, but will no longer introduce new phones with the feature.
Sprint introduced QChat last year as a potential replacement for the push-to-talk service on its Nextel-branded iDEN network, which is a mainstay among dispatchers, contractors and other business ...
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By DAVID TWIDDY (AP) – 3 hours ago
KANSAS CITY, Mo. — Sprint Nextel Corp. is giving up on a technology that allows some Sprint-branded phones to use a "push-to-talk" walkie-talkie service similar to what's available on the company's Nextel-branded phones.
Scott Sloat, a spokesman for the nation's third-largest wireless provider, said Sprint will still support customers who have phones with the technology, known as QChat, but will no longer introduce new phones with the feature.
Sprint introduced QChat last year as a potential replacement for the push-to-talk service on its Nextel-branded iDEN network, which is a mainstay among dispatchers, contractors and other business ...
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My V950 is pretty nice. I got it in October and the latest hardware and software revisions seem to have fixed most of the issue. My battery (extended) last about 4 days on a charge which was one of the major complaints.
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