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- 07-06-2005, 02:51 PM #1CapnGuest
Anyone know if sprint still plans to put out a phone to work on both nextel
and sprint? Curious since I know a lot of friends and family on nextel.
Capt.
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- 07-06-2005, 03:25 PM #2Bob SmithGuest
Re: sprint/nextel hybrid phone
"Capn" <[email protected]> wrote in message news:[email protected]...
> Anyone know if sprint still plans to put out a phone to work on both
nextel
> and sprint? Curious since I know a lot of friends and family on nextel.
>
> Capt.
Until all the i's are dotted and the t's crossed on the agreement of the
merger, and the merger gets government approval, there won't be any handsets
compatible for both providers.
Estimated time for the merger is end of 4th quarter 2005.
Bob
- 07-06-2005, 03:43 PM #3Steve SobolGuest
Re: sprint/nextel hybrid phone
Bob Smith wrote:
> "Capn" <[email protected]> wrote in message news:[email protected]...
>
>>Anyone know if sprint still plans to put out a phone to work on both
>
> nextel
>
>>and sprint? Curious since I know a lot of friends and family on nextel.
>>
>>Capt.
>
>
> Until all the i's are dotted and the t's crossed on the agreement of the
> merger, and the merger gets government approval, there won't be any handsets
> compatible for both providers.
>
> Estimated time for the merger is end of 4th quarter 2005.
And the smart money is not on a hybrid CDMA/iDEN phone, but on a CDMA phone
(like the ones Sprint sells) that will do PTT with Nextel phones. Nextel is
supposedly going to adopt CDMA.
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- 07-06-2005, 06:00 PM #4brutusGuest
Re: sprint/nextel hybrid phone
"Steve Sobol" <[email protected]> wrote in message
news:[email protected]...
> Bob Smith wrote:
>> "Capn" <[email protected]> wrote in message
>> news:[email protected]...
>>
>>>Anyone know if sprint still plans to put out a phone to work on both
>>
>> nextel
>>
>>>and sprint? Curious since I know a lot of friends and family on nextel.
>>>
>>>Capt.
>>
>>
>> Until all the i's are dotted and the t's crossed on the agreement of the
>> merger, and the merger gets government approval, there won't be any
>> handsets
>> compatible for both providers.
>>
>> Estimated time for the merger is end of 4th quarter 2005.
>
> And the smart money is not on a hybrid CDMA/iDEN phone, but on a CDMA
> phone (like the ones Sprint sells) that will do PTT with Nextel phones.
> Nextel is supposedly going to adopt CDMA.
Moto has indicated that they will build a hybrid phone. They also have a
server that will connect Direct Connect to Sprint PTT.
- 07-06-2005, 06:19 PM #5Steve SobolGuest
Re: sprint/nextel hybrid phone
brutus wrote:
> Moto has indicated that they will build a hybrid phone. They also have a
> server that will connect Direct Connect to Sprint PTT.
That's what I was referring to, the CDMA<->PTT technology. Nextel already
has it. The key will be building a link between Sprint Readylink, Sprint's
current CDMA-based PTT technology, and Nextel's DirectConnect. It would be
wonderful if people could just get a firmware upgrade to their existing
phones. And it would be a huge blow to Verizon's CDMA-based PTT service (IMHO).
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- 07-06-2005, 08:47 PM #6SSGuest
Re: sprint/nextel hybrid phone
"Paul Miner" <[email protected]> wrote in message
news:[email protected]...
> On Wed, 6 Jul 2005 15:51:11 -0500, "Capn" <[email protected]> wrote:
>
> >Anyone know if sprint still plans to put out a phone to work on both
nextel
> >and sprint? Curious since I know a lot of friends and family on nextel.
> >
> >Capt.
>
> "Still"? Was that EVER the plan?
>
> --
Motorola announced plans to develop a CDMA/iDen phone about an hour after
the merger was announced in January. Summer of '06 was the projected
release timeframe.
- 07-06-2005, 08:58 PM #7Mij AdyawGuest
Re: sprint/nextel hybrid phone
Firmware updates should be done "over-the-air". The technology exists and it
is not that difficult. I have designed products that incorporate this
functionality. You essentially need a banked flash memory with twice the
storage requirements to avoid a problem that can occur in the event of a
power loss during download of the firmware. The additional storage
requirement would increase the cost of the phone. I would be willing to pay
so that I do not have to take the phone to a Sprint store and wait over an
hour to get a firmware upgrade. I am sure that the majority of customers
would not pay for this functionality and that is the reason that it is not
available.
"Paul Miner" <[email protected]> wrote in message
news:[email protected]...
> On Wed, 06 Jul 2005 17:19:04 -0700, Steve Sobol <[email protected]>
> wrote:
>
>>brutus wrote:
>>
>>> Moto has indicated that they will build a hybrid phone. They also have
>>> a
>>> server that will connect Direct Connect to Sprint PTT.
>>
>>That's what I was referring to, the CDMA<->PTT technology. Nextel already
>>has it. The key will be building a link between Sprint Readylink, Sprint's
>>current CDMA-based PTT technology, and Nextel's DirectConnect. It would be
>>wonderful if people could just get a firmware upgrade to their existing
>>phones. And it would be a huge blow to Verizon's CDMA-based PTT service
>>(IMHO).
>
> It would be even more wonderful if no firmware upgrades were required
> and the whole upgrade is accomplished within the network and is
> transparent to the customers. Firmware upgrades on such a wide scale
> would be a nightmare, IMO.
>
> --
> Paul Miner
- 07-06-2005, 09:38 PM #8Steve SobolGuest
Re: sprint/nextel hybrid phone
Paul Miner wrote:
> It would be even more wonderful if no firmware upgrades were required
> and the whole upgrade is accomplished within the network and is
> transparent to the customers. Firmware upgrades on such a wide scale
> would be a nightmare, IMO.
I agree. If they can pull that off, it'll be a HUGE win. And maybe it can be
done within the network. I don't really know the technology involved, so I'm
not going to speculate.
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- 07-06-2005, 09:39 PM #9Steve SobolGuest
Re: sprint/nextel hybrid phone
Mij Adyaw wrote:
> Firmware updates should be done "over-the-air". The technology exists and it
> is not that difficult.
That's great, but there are a huge number of phones that don't do OTA
firmware upgrades. The technology does exist but is relatively new to cell
phones.
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- 07-06-2005, 09:46 PM #10Mij AdyawGuest
Re: sprint/nextel hybrid phone
That is correct. It is new to cell phones but has existed in other products
for many years.
"Steve Sobol" <[email protected]> wrote in message
news:[email protected]...
> Mij Adyaw wrote:
>> Firmware updates should be done "over-the-air". The technology exists and
>> it is not that difficult.
>
> That's great, but there are a huge number of phones that don't do OTA
> firmware upgrades. The technology does exist but is relatively new to cell
> phones.
>
> --
> JustThe.net - Steve Sobol / [email protected] / PGP: 0xE3AE35ED
> Coming to you from Southern California's High Desert, where the
> temperatures are as high as the gas prices! / 888.480.4NET (4638)
>
> "Life's like an hourglass glued to the table" --Anna Nalick, "Breathe"
- 07-07-2005, 01:54 PM #11Mij AdyawGuest
Re: sprint/nextel hybrid phone
That is very true. Some of the customers are really scary especially at
Sprint and Cingular Stores.
"Paul Miner" <[email protected]> wrote in message
news:[email protected]...
> On Wed, 6 Jul 2005 20:46:37 -0700, "Mij Adyaw" <[email protected]>
> wrote:
>
>>That is correct. It is new to cell phones but has existed in other
>>products
>>for many years.
>
> Existing in other products for any length of time doesn't really help,
> though. If a subset of the device population can't do OTA, then you're
> SOL for that portion of the population and those customers have no
> choice but to make a store visit, where undoubtedly those with older
> or less capable devices will be told that their device can't be
> upgraded to include this particular functionality. That's why I say
> this really needs to be done within the network, if possible. The less
> Sprint asks of its customers the better.
>
> --
> Paul Miner
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