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But mostly it's known for its push-to-talk feature that allows its phones to be used as walkie-talkies. Suddenly, however, everyone wants a piece of the walkie-talkie action.

Nextel also is working on gateways between the QChat push-to-talk service and Nextel’s iDEN network, in order to allow instant calls between iDEN users and CDMA and WCDMA networks worldwide.

Will the push-to-talk wireless craze bring back the old CB-radio lingo of the 1970s? ... Nextel's phones include a feature it calls Direct Connect, which lets users push a button, ...

Nextel owned push-to-talk. It offered slick walkie-talkies that delivered clear and instant voice connections across a work site, across town and across the nation.

Sprint Nextel Corp., based in Overland Park, is busily pitching its new version of push-to-talk service called Direct Connect, which runs on the Sprint network.

Nextel Communications wants its popular walkie-talkie cell phone feature to work when a wireless network isn't available, a move that could give it a leg up on carriers that offer similar so ...

Nextel’s New Group ConnectSM Service Offers Instant Walkie-Talkie Group Conversations Nationwide, and Groups Can Easily Be Created on Handset Nextel Communications Inc. (NASDAQ:NXTL) today announced ...

Nextel Communications is exploring whether to offer a global version of its popular "push to talk" walkie-talkie feature for cell phones, as rivals work on their own U.S.-centric versions.

Nostalgic for that Nextel push-to-talk capability? Sprint brings the feature back through a free app that works with select Android phones, including the Samsung Galaxy S4 and LG G2.

Nextel Communications Inc. isn’t waiting for more mobile operators to roll out would-be competitors to Direct Connect, the pioneering “push-to-talk” service that lets subscribers talk ...

With push to talk, callers need only push a single button to connect to another cell phone.It happens in less than a second, as with walkie-talkies. Because there's no time spent dialing or making ...