PTT - Any good?

Interceptor

I'm on my second Nokia with PTT (Push to Talk) capability but its not supported by O2. I know they have it in Israel and possibly Norway and Finland - have any of you used it? Is it any good? Are there any plans to introduce it here?

'cptr

Pythia

Never used it and AFAIK, it's not gonna be introduced here.

drdre

its not available here so never tried it out.I donot think it will be out here.

TerrorFirmer

Can someone elaborate on what PTT actually is? Well, I know what it is, but rather....how it works?

drdre

HavoK wrote:

Can someone elaborate on what PTT actually is? Well, I know what it is, but rather....how it works?

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Push_to_talk

or check out
http://www.nokia.com/nokia/0,8764,46740,00.html

hope this helps

TerrorFirmer

Interesting. Thanks drdre.

drdre

HavoK wrote:

Interesting. Thanks drdre.

no problem.because i did the search for you i also read it so i know what it is.i didnot know exactly how it worked before because i never used it.

Sparky

I used it in america last year, its like walkie talkies over a mobile network, but that annoying bleep sound you would have after you talked.
I think its big in the US because they dont use SMS that much.

pgodkin

sorry i started another thread about push to talk before i knew that PTT was used for it,

why aren't they letting us use it here, is it a network problem?
what's the range on it?
of the people that have used it? did u find it useful or was it just another "camera phone" sort of idea?

Philip

BigMoose

Dont forget in America you also have to pay to receive calls on a mobile, so I assume PTT works out cheaper. Personally dont see the market for it here. I know at least one network here is looking at it, but cant see it being released any time soon.