Push To Talk

Anyone use the Cingular PTT? Thoughts???

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hmm, dont know but i strongly suggest visiting the cingular PTT forum at their website if you want more info, u can also find PTT buddies there

Everything you probably wanted to know and more about Cingular PTT is right here.

P.S. Quit Pimpin' so Hard!!!

Huh?

dude, just click the link . . .

Here is a link for the cingular website typing in "ptt" in the search feature: http://search.cingular.com/search?si...=lang_en&q=ptt

That's cool and all well & good, but of course they're going to say their service(s) are all great...I just wanted to get some honest feedback from some of the people on here. A girl I work with was using it today and it seemed pretty loud, she was all the way on the other side of the room.

Of course, since it's not one of the main selling points, Cingular, just like Verizon only offers two phones with that feature...

Thanks for the links everyone, I'll check it out...

I looked into a little bit and I think I did see that you can convert PTT into a 'regular' call...is that true and can you do that with Nextel? This part of it is more curiousity than anything with me; while it is cool to be able to do it, direct connect is unlimited and transferring to normal voice would cut into your peak minutes. But I guess if you don't realize it, it's just a way for them to make more money, unless you got some serious rollover accumulated.

Originally Posted by dude222

That's cool and all well & good, but of course they're going to say their service(s) are all great...I just wanted to get some honest feedback from some of the people on here.

Ah gotcha. Yeah, i'm interested in to the feature oo. It will be interresting to see how the phone selection and service itself changes and hopefully improves/increase throughout the next several months

Originally Posted by Gibralter

Ah gotcha. Yeah, i'm interested in to the feature oo. It will be interresting to see how the phone selection and service itself changes and hopefully improves/increase throughout the next several months

Yeah, it will. It seems more of a novelty for other companies, besides Nextel, of course; especially since it was mainly created for that very reason. It seems as though everyone else is trying it, to see how it does; almost like if it does, it does, if it don't, it don't. I remember when VZW came out with it, they seemed ready to really push the Push-To-Talk (no pun intended) and what kept them from going forward with it was the fact that right after that, they came up with the whole In Network thing, free everything to anyone else with Verizon; including calls, any kind of texting, etc. Fact is too, the guy who mainly developed PTT for Nextel, was also working for VZW to develop theirs.

The thing thats frustrating, even though from a business standpoint you gotta do what you 'think' is going to make money for the company, is that a company will come up with something that consumers genuinely like, and then four months later, poof, gone! One thing that comes to mind is phones themselves, I wish companies could or would be more interactive and actually poll consumers as to what they like. I've gone on several sites to look at the company in general and been disappointed at the phone selection. Unfortunately, you should be picking a company for it's service first, and then grab a phone, but too many times, it isn't done that way. It has to be largely proprietary as to why they don't make more phones, do they even?, that come in every version (cdma, tdma, gms, iden). Then you pick your service based on coverage in your part of the country, or world, and you have the phone you want, and the service you 'think' you want. There would probably be less churn if that were the case. Do I really have to go on EBay to try and find a phone I knew my cell phone company used to feature? Well what are you going to if trends determine the life expantancy of a given handset?