RE: yet another fantasy idea: nextel-like walkie talkie feature?

2006-12-15 Thread David Schlesinger
Push-to-talk, at least the version currently marketed by Sprint/Nextel on cellphones, is based on Motorola's proprietary iDEN network; I don't know that there's a great deal of information available on using iDEN, plus it'd require a dedicated additional network stack beyond GSM...

Re: yet another fantasy idea: nextel-like walkie talkie feature?

2006-12-13 Thread Mikko Rauhala
ke, 2006-12-13 kello 10:26 -0800, [EMAIL PROTECTED] kirjoitti: I suppose everyone is familiar with the Nextel feature that behaves a bit like a walkie-talkie. In summary, you can contact anyone within certian groups in a half-duplex (meaning only one talks at a time) push-to-talk like

Re: yet another fantasy idea: nextel-like walkie talkie feature?

2006-12-13 Thread Mikko Rauhala
ke, 2006-12-13 kello 20:16 +, Ole Tange kirjoitti: I am wondering why you want push-to-talk when you can have VoIP using SIP or just a normal GSM conversation? Can you elaborate on why? Full-fledged VOIP over GPRS is iffy due to quality of service issues that don't hamper the playback of