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| Thread ID: 56499 | 2005-04-06 20:53:00 | Whats the big deal about PTT ? | Strommer (42) | PC World Chat |
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| 342284 | 2005-04-07 03:17:00 | You have to just listen for the persons voice coming through. Clearly it's not going to ever be as good as a regular walkie talkie, apart from size possibly. A walkie talking won't let you talk to someone in Wellington when you're in Invercargill though. |
Jeremy (1197) | ||
| 342285 | 2005-04-07 03:34:00 | I'll have to ask one of our long distance drivers what they think of driving with a dinky little cellphone held to their ear incase the office send through a query about eta..... This is just a gimmick,and when you look at the price of a truck running longhaul (200 grand+ ) then the expense of getting in a long range radio system,or even a plain vanilla dash mounted phone is a pittence. They don't require an open constant line back to base,and the shortwave gives them the ability to natter away to other drivers on the road if they so wish. I can only see this being adopted by those whose lives revolve around their phones, the kids already sending thousands of texts a month. |
Metla (12) | ||
| 342286 | 2005-04-07 03:40:00 | Been using P2T for about a month now, mainly for the novelty of it all and I have found it absolutely fantastic. It wont replace texting or voice calls but it is cheap.It is better than texting because you know whether they have got your message or not and heaps quicker. So much easier to use *ahem* when driving because you dont need to keep the phone to your ear as you use it about steering wheel length away from your face. It can be embarrasing when all of a sudden a voice from your pocket yells "are you there?" but it can be turned off when not required. Not sure if it will be fall by the wayside like other things I try but for the moment it is definitely my favourite toy. | sam m (517) | ||
| 342287 | 2005-04-07 03:46:00 | I doubt Sam Peckinpah would have made "Convoy" if Kris Kristofferson had been battling Ernest Borgnine by chatting to his friends on a Nokia. It just wouldn't have worked somehow. | Biggles (121) | ||
| 342288 | 2005-04-07 11:22:00 | Meh......National trunks? How big is this constuction site? Metla vs The World: chalk another one up for Metla :D "Muhahahaha!" You're on a winning streak... Back on topic: When I update my cellphone, whenever that will be, if it has PTT and PTT is on prepay, then I will probably give it a whirl. As a toy, a novelty, it seems nice. In fact, if I could 'train' my wife to use PTT then it would be a quick way to find her in The Warehouse :) or other shopping adventures. Before she started using her cellphone (includes texting, which I never ever thought she would do) I actually tried having her take one of those small DSE-type walkie talkies - nah, she did not like it, probably because it did not have a cute ring tone. Graham_L wrote: It's possible. That's what drives most "advances". The cell phone suppliers spent enormous amounts buying bandwidth for "third generation", and they are desperate for income. Every so often they come up with another half-arsed idea. ...Yep, this is most likely true. However half-arsed PTT seems, 3G seems more so to me. |
Strommer (42) | ||
| 342289 | 2005-04-07 21:48:00 | Meh......National trunks? How big is this constuction site? I'm not sure they are aimed at construction sites, more at national walkie talkie style coverage. The ambulances in my area all carry two radios, one is used for voice/sigtech traffic, the other is used for the GPS transponder to transmit location information back to Comms. It's been researched that it would be cheaper to replace the second radio with a GPRS cellphone, and send the GPS data over that rather than via RT. In terms of cost of buying into a frequency band yearly, maintaining radios/antennas etc, replacing kit - it is expected that a full rollout of GPRS will recoup it's install costs in less than a year. |
ninja (1671) | ||
| 342290 | 2005-04-08 03:16:00 | It runs nation-wide in the US and there is no cost per call (at least on some plans, I'm not sure that it is free across the board) and it sure is convenient . Many ordinary cellular calls can be made on PTT with a consequent cost saving . Re security & confidentiality, you only broadcast to the phone(s) you nominate so it is as secure as any other cellular call . As for size of construction sites, they can be huge if you look at national works, and even for NZ, companies can have multiple sites on the go and be juggling staff and resources between them . If they don't price it out of the market it will be a very useful service . I await pricing/plan developments before finally ditching my analogue phones . Best of all, you can keep those invasive digital transmissions away from your brain, they are a risk factor I'm not keen to take . Cheers Billy 8-{) |
Billy T (70) | ||
| 342291 | 2005-04-08 03:26:00 | ... keep those invasive digital transmissions away from your brain ... just don't put your finger in your ear. :groan: | Graham L (2) | ||
| 342292 | 2005-04-08 11:53:00 | just don't put your finger in your ear . :groan: No digital transmissions from me Graham, my Mum taught me to wash my hands, and never to associate with dirty women :illogical or even dirtier old men . :eek: Cheers Billy 8-{) :thumbs: |
Billy T (70) | ||
| 342293 | 2005-04-08 20:25:00 | We used them at work 6 months ago as a pre-release trial for telescum(opps,telecom I mean). They were ok, but seemed a bit gimmicky. We also had RT's on us anyhow and the RT's came through a lot clearer and loader. But the phones(nokia) were a lot lighter in the pocket, 100~200 gms compared to about 500~ for the RT's. Although they didnt relly work in our situation, there might be some places out there that these will come in handy. At least telecom is betting so :D . |
Nyuuji (5460) | ||
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