Both handsets prepare customers for the eventual shutting down of iDEN by offering push-to-talk-to-yourself technology.
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The company will offer the push-to-talk feature that made Nextel popular on CDMA-based phones instead.
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The device will have access to Enhanced Push-to-Talk functionality upon launch of the service.
Enter the Kyocera Torque, the latest Sprint smartphone featuring the network's CDMA-based Push-to-Talk service.
Like all iDen phones it has Push-to-Talk, Java, and aGPS. sadly, like other iDen phones, it lacks Bluetooth or IR.
Sprint Direct Connect Now marks another major milestone for the Sprint push-to-talk franchise.
ENGADGET: Where you at? Sprint Direct Connect Now brings push-to-talk to select Android devices
Extending this longstanding agreement reflects both companies' commitment to iDEN technology as a best-in-class platform for push-to-talk (PTT) services.
It also adds Push-to-Talk, which just about every carrier on Earth will be pushing this Fall if they aren't already.
First and foremost, the latest revision corrects an error that'd kept the speakerphone active after a push-to-talk conversation had ended.
The service first offered broadband data capabilities, familiar push-to-talk features, rugged and reliable handsets, and a broadening push-to-talk coverage map.
ENGADGET: Where you at? Sprint Direct Connect Now brings push-to-talk to select Android devices
All of these systems, whether trunked or conventional, are push-to-talk, meaning that only one user can speak or listen at one time.
The Sprint Direct Connect launch in October 2011 ushered in the next generation of PTT service from the company that pioneered push-to-talk.
ENGADGET: Where you at? Sprint Direct Connect Now brings push-to-talk to select Android devices
"Sprint Direct Connect Now expands access to next-generation push-to-talk functionality, " said Michael Wallace, senior vice president and general manager of Qualcomm Internet Services.
ENGADGET: Where you at? Sprint Direct Connect Now brings push-to-talk to select Android devices
About thirty years ago, Motorola hooked up with Nextel to bring national two-way push-to-talk service to businesses and government through a public infrastructure network.
Much of the growth can be credited to Nextel's push-to-talk service, the walkie-talkie-like function that allows users to page and call friends instantly with a single button.
For Nextel push-to-talk subs, the writing's been on the wall for some time now, what with that legacy service destined to sunset on June 30th, 2013.
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For Nextel, the benefit of EV-DO is that handsets already exist, and it is possible to implement push-to-talk functionality, on a par with Nextel's existing service, on an EV-DO network.
As prior reports suggested, the carrier is reporting that push-to-talk services will continue to carry the treasured "Nextel Direct Connect" branding that has largely represented enterprise PTT service in the US for ages (14 years, to be exact).
ENGADGET: Sprint to preserve Nextel Direct Connect branding for PTT
If that takes you back just a bit, then perhaps you're ready for "push-to-talk, " which appears to be the craze of the moment among wireless service providers eager to attract business users and increase the amount of airtime they use each month.
The merged company--to be called Sprint Nextel --promises to mesh the best elements of each company, including Nextel's (nasdaq: NXTL - news - people ) push-to-talk technology and strong corporate customer base, and Sprint's (nyse: FON - news - people ) high-speed data network.
For years push-to talk has been a function available from Nextel (nasdaq: NXTL - news - people ), the wireless-service provider best known for catering to businesses where instant communication is useful.
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