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Nextel's iDEN network offered a then unique push-to-talk "walkie-talkie" feature in addition to direct-dialed voice calls. Nextel was one of the first providers in the United States to offer a national digital cellular coverage footprint. Prior to merging with Sprint Corporation in 2005, Nextel Communications, Inc. was a publicly traded company.
The phone has been criticized for its lack of Bluetooth, long delay to release, the lack of Motorola's MotoTalk-branded Off-Network Walkie-Talkie and its use of Windows Mobile 2003 over Windows Mobile 5.0 as well as not being upgradeable to that version.
The off network feature on the iDEN phones work for up to a six-mile radius and will communicate with all other iDEN phones in the area on the same channel and code access number. The off network walkie talkie feature has a total of 10 channels on newer phones and within those 10 channels, the phones can handle 15 separate group codes.
PowerSource phones used the Sprint network for interconnect (regular voice phone calls) and the Nextel network for walkie-talkie calls. They did this through the implementation of two radios in each unit—a 1900 MHz CDMA radio for Sprint and an 800 MHz iDEN radio for Nextel.
This Motorola phone that doubled as a weapon (hence the name “brick phone”) was the first official cellphone to succeed the beeper. Released in 1983, it came with a hefty price tag of nearly ...
The phone came out in 1999. It is a clamshell phone. The phone featured the direct connect feature (Two way radio). On Nextel, it offered Nextel Net and other Nextel features. The i1000 plus is a digital phone. The phone, on the battery pack section and with the flip closed measures about 1 inch in thickness. [1]