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Sprint’s recently successful test of the first PTT (Push-To-Talk) connection between an iDEN and CDMA phone was leading up to this. Today Sprint announced that the PTT technology will be dubbed Nextel Direct Connect, regardless of whether the phone s used on the Nextel or Sprint network.
The Nextel Direct Connect feature will be a cross-network feature, allowing instant PTT communication between Sprint’s CDMA and Nextel’s iDEN phones. Sprint also announced new Nextel Direct Connect-enabled phones for the Sprint CDMA network. They aren’t the CDMA/iDEN hybrid phones that work on either network, but they’ll be able to communicate with Nextel phones through the Nextel Direct Connect feature.
Sprint press release.
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Will Park
Will hails from The City of Angels - Los Angeles, California. He spends his time playing with his numerous gadgets and looking forward to seeing what future holds for mobile technology. An avid promoter of a fully "digital" life, he promotes the widespread adoption of truly mobile, paper-less living. He dreams of the day when he can go completely digital. No more snail mail, paper receipts, bound books, notepads/spiral notebooks, credit cards, hard currency. He's a digital warrior - fighting for the converged life. He is an idealist and a realist - he has a perfect view of what the world should be but knows that the world is not perfect. Can we ever hope to see Will's dream become reality? We'll see...
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