Sprint customers who subscribe to the Nextel Direct Connect side of the spectrum now have a new feature to look forward to called Push-to-X. This technology brings more to the little tone and button pair we all have become familiar with adding capabilities such as Push-to-Send voice messages to any email address dubbed as NextMail(SM), and Push-to-Send pictures or contact information with Direct Send(SM).
One of the most touted advancements is NextMail which will allow customers that use Nextel Direct Connect a way to send instant voice messages to any email address. It is as simple as selecting a recipient from their address book, pushing the Direct Connect button while speaking to record a message and with the release of the button, the message is sent instantly to the recipient’s email as a link where they can listen and respond back to the sender via text. It will be available for $7.50 a month once it is launched later this year along with a new line of Nextel Direct Connect-capable phones with Sprint Mobile Broadband data capabilities.
Push-to-Picture allows users to send and view pictures while talking simultaneously allowing those to review photos in real time. Sprint is offering this as an industry first at $0.25 a picture. Push-to-Send Contact Information works in a similar fashion where the user would select any individual in their address book and be able to send desired information via the Direct Connect button. This is going to be offered at no additional costs to current subscribers in the near future with feature compatible phones.
With all the new features that are going to be tacked onto the Direct Connect Button, we can expect Sprint to introduce many more features such as push-to-text, push-to-locate, push-to-information and other technologies that will take advantage of “one-touch communications.”
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“Push-to-Send Contact Information works in a similar fashion where the user would select any individual in their address book and be able to send desired information via the Direct Connect button. This is going to be offered at no additional costs to current subscribers in the near future with feature compatible phones.”
I’m pretty sure my ic902 already had this feature?
“It will be available for $7.50 a month once it is launched later this year along with a new line of Nextel Direct Connect-capable phones with Sprint Mobile Broadband data capabilities.”
You mean like the ic902?
“It will be available for $7.50 a month once it is launched later this year along with a new line of Nextel Direct Connect-capable phones with Sprint Mobile Broadband data capabilities.â€
You mean like the ic902?
Actually the ic902 has been out there for a while now and is in the line of “powersource” phones which use the sprint and nextel networks. Great phone though. The new phones that will be coming out will be Nextel only devices for the iDen network like the i570 and i335 plus a bunch more coming soon.
Also coming, Sprint only phones which utilize the CDMA network will soon have the same capabilities of the nextel phones with Push-To-X…this means users will be able to utilize Palm, Blackberry and other Sprint devices to get business done more quickly and easily using Direct Connect.
““It will be available for $7.50 a month once it is launched later this year along with a new line of Nextel Direct Connect-capable phones with Sprint Mobile Broadband data capabilities.—
“Actually the ic902 has been out there for a while now and is in the line of “powersource†phones which use the sprint and nextel networks. Great phone though. The new phones that will be coming out will be Nextel only devices for the iDen network like the i570 and i335 plus a bunch more coming soon.”
How are iDEN-only phones going to have Sprint Mobile Broadband aka EV-DO?
And yes, I know about Q-Chat phones. So far every Q-Chat phone posted here has looked fugly, so I went with the ic902 for now.
“Push to X” will be a standard feature of the DirectConnect service going forward. There is no differentiation between QChat enabled phones and iDEN regarding DirectConnect services. Of course, you are correct Dustin that these features have been recent staples of Nextel DirectConnect service, but they will now be extended to the entire lineup of QChat devices in order to make DirectConnect transparent to the user, whether on iDEN or QChat.
Push-to-X has been around for at least a couple years. When the merger happened and we went through training on iDEN, it was the “new” thing. They never really promoted it, though. It got lost in the shuffle of things