Because everyone wants to look like Dick Tracy or some futuristic dude from the 60s/70s. I think I read somewhere that the Nextel walkie-talkie phone thing was going to try to make a come back. I guess. Then again… Why did they go out of business in the first place? Don’t people remember how annoying it was to always hear walkie-talkie phones going off? This for me is a hard pass.
> On Jan 5, 2019, at 9:17 PM, Sieghard Weitzel <siegh...@live.ca> wrote: > > Yes, and while I tried this walkie-talkie thing once or twice with my wife > it's just a toy and I don't get it. > > > -----Original Message----- > From: viphone@googlegroups.com <viphone@googlegroups.com> On Behalf Of > Cristóbal Muñoz > Sent: Saturday, January 5, 2019 9:02 PM > To: viphone@googlegroups.com > Subject: RE: Activating walkie-talkie ... transmitting speech > > Walkie-talkies? Man, I'm getting some serious Nextel 2007 flashbacks over > here. It's true what they say ... everything old is new again. > > Cristóbal > > -----Original Message----- > From: viphone@googlegroups.com <viphone@googlegroups.com> On Behalf Of > Sieghard Weitzel > Sent: Saturday, January 5, 2019 8:31 PM > To: viphone@googlegroups.com > Subject: RE: Activating walkie-talkie ... transmitting speech > > Did you enable double tap to talk? If not you may have to double tap and hold > and continue to hold while you speak your message. > > -----Original Message----- > From: viphone@googlegroups.com <viphone@googlegroups.com> On Behalf Of Ann > Byrne > Sent: Saturday, January 5, 2019 8:02 PM > To: viphone@googlegroups.com > Subject: RE: Activating walkie-talkie ... transmitting speech > > So it says talk button. When I double tap the talk button, nothing happens. > I can hear the other party's transmissions, but I can't talk back. And, > after all, a person needs backtalk! > At 06:30 PM 1/5/2019, you wrote: >> You have to open Walkie Talkie on the watch then add a contact rom >> there. Double tap on add contact and a list of them will come up. >> >> Jenn >> >> -----Original Message----- >> From: viphone@googlegroups.com <viphone@googlegroups.com> On Behalf Of >> Ann Byrne >> Sent: Saturday, January 5, 2019 4:54 PM >> To: viphone@googlegroups.com >> Subject: RE: Activating walkie-talkie ... contacts >> >> I am missing how to find contacts on the watch. If I go into the phone >> app, my contacts are listed; I presume in messages also. but I don't >> find a a stand-alone contacts entry. When I ask Siri to open contacts >> on the watch he says he doesn't find anything called contacts. 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