Can an unlocked HTC with PTT be used with Nextel service?

Basically, I just wanna know if you can use an service unlocked HTC TyTn II
(that has a PTT button) with the Nextel service and still be able to use
Nextel's Direct Connect (walkie-talkie) service? I have one and I just got a
new job and they gave me a Nextel, but the phone is the cheapest one they
make. I just don't want to get my TyTn II unlocked just to find out I can't
use it with Nextel's Direct Connect feature. Has anyone out there tried it
before?

At 14 May 2008 15:13:11 +0000 panaphobic wrote:
> Basically, I just wanna know if you can use an service unlocked HTC TyTn
II
> (that has a PTT button) with the Nextel service and still be able to use
> Nextel's Direct Connect (walkie-talkie) service? I have one and I just
got a
> new job and they gave me a Nextel, but the phone is the cheapest one they
> make. I just don't want to get my TyTn II unlocked just to find out I
can't
> use it with Nextel's Direct Connect feature. Has anyone out there tried it
> before?


Regardless of whether anyone has tried, it won't work. Your Tytn II is GSM
and Nextel is iDen. Completely incompatible technologies.

It'd be like trying to pick up an AM radio station with an FM radio! ;-)

"Evan Platt" <evan@theobvious.espphotography.com> wrote in message
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> On Wed, 14 May 2008 16:20:51 -0600, Todd Allcock
> <elecconnec@AmericaOnLine.com> wrote:
>
>>It'd be like trying to pick up an AM radio station with an FM radio! ;-)
>
> Bad analogy.
>
> It would work, just not well. I have a scanner that I can select the
> mode on. I can put in a frequency that's AM and select FM mode. :-D
>
> It'll sound bad, but it'll work.
> --
> To reply via e-mail, remove The Obvious from my e-mail address.

"Evan Platt" <evan@theobvious.espphotography.com> wrote in message
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> On Wed, 14 May 2008 16:20:51 -0600, Todd Allcock
> <elecconnec@AmericaOnLine.com> wrote:
>
>>It'd be like trying to pick up an AM radio station with an FM radio! ;-)
>
> Bad analogy.
>
> It would work, just not well. I have a scanner that I can select the
> mode on. I can put in a frequency that's AM and select FM mode. :-D


Yeah, I almost said "FM-only" radio- I have a scanner that's manually
selectable between AM and FM modes regardless of frequency as well!

I actually expected the requisite wise-guy follow up to my post to point out
most FM radios are AM/FM so they also tune AM stations. Kudos to your
example, however!

> It'll sound bad, but it'll work.

Just to be clear to the OP- you're talking about the scanner sounding bad,
not his GSM phone, which certainly WON'T work at all on an iDen network.