News Turning mobiles into walkie-talkies

From the Beeb:

New "push-to-talk" services that turn mobile phones into walkie-talkies with unlimited range could soon make text messaging obsolete.

The services let users choose a recipient from an instant messenger-style "buddy list" on their phone screen, press a key and start talking.

The message, which can be up to 30 seconds long, comes out through the recipient's mobile's loudspeaker almost instantaneously.

Push-to-talk has proved immensely popular in the United States, and Nextel, the mobile phone operator which dominates the US push-to-talk market, has 12 million customers for its service.

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Sounds good - I've seen the Nextel system in the states and it looked pretty cool. It'll be good for us old duffers who really can't get on with texting, even with predicitive input!

 

Hey I know somebody who has that.

Its really usefull

 

Sweet!!! Sounds really useful...