Sprint to preserve Nextel Direct Connect branding for PTT {Engadget Mobile}

Oct 1st 2007 1:49PM Hybrid phones are the future! Using CDMA for voice and iDEN for Nextel PTT ... everyone that used a full Nextel iDen knows coverage is ify at times, especially when you travel the nation. That said, the PTT seems to work even in weak areas unlike the voice ... as a major solution Spring is offering CDMA Voice / iDEN PTT phones and they are great! Take the ic502, a military spec for rugged performance with CDMA and iDen.... it's killer!

Americans should always try to support Motorola over foreign firms as their patriotic duty. I do not hope to see overseas firms making iDen phones .. if they did they would be surely flimsy crap. Everyone that uses Nextel and now the Hybrid Sprint/Nextel knows that the equipment is extremely superior over the regular consumers cellular only phones.... Nextels are made tough!