Comments on: Sprint Preparing to Discontinue QChat in Favor of iDEN Again (Updated)

By: Nate C.

Nate C. — Thu, 31 Dec 2009 05:50:28 +0000

I use a V950 Renegade and my wife has the LG Qchat phone. We have been using them for about 4 months now and the PTT works just as good as it did w/ my IDEN nextel. Occasionally it will blank out in weak signal areas but I would have had no signal on the IDEN network anyway. I think it works great. I use it for work every day. Everyone else in my company has IDEN blackberry nextels now and it interacts perfectly with them. If it’s true that Sprint is dropping Q-chat then it’s a crying shame because it works really really good and I have all the CDMA features and internet!! SAD SAD!

By: Louienyc79

Louienyc79 — Wed, 16 Dec 2009 03:37:47 +0000

The people that run Sprint are all a bunch a Buddah heads who don’t know what they’re doing. They really need to stop that chain smoking and experimenting with drugs and finally seek treatment, especially Hesse. I heard QChat handsets, two Sanyo Pro 700′s and they sounded clearer than iDEN. It’s better technology, let’s get real here. How is Sprint still in business and how is it’s Nextel division still in existence?

By: LM

LM — Tue, 15 Dec 2009 12:15:20 +0000

I want a sleek Sprint phone with tons of features with PTT. the Nextel Opus One iDEN Android Phone might be something to wait on.

By: LM

LM — Tue, 15 Dec 2009 11:11:08 +0000

Love/Hate, I agree before Sprint Nextel had pretty bad voice service when people called me they would ever hear “please wait while the Nextel customer you are trying to reach is located” or 10-20 seconds of dead silence followed by my voice-mail…but what I loved was on 09/11/01 my Nextel still worked in Manhattan when no ones cell phone could get through and when I had to go to New Orleans shortly after hurricane Katrina direct connect worked there too. I’m glad Sprint is keeping the service if not I might leave. I want more CDMA voice/data+Nextel Direct-Connect hybrid phones. These two companies merged years ago why haven’t the feature sets of there phones?

By: JJ

JJ — Fri, 04 Dec 2009 14:00:03 +0000

dlarson
Very true. It is very convinient to be able to push a button and connect instantly. Its also safer than texting. That is why the hybrid phones are so great. They have all the features of ptt and you can text and use data on it like other phones. Nextel PTT is the fastest and also the easiest to use. I had the ptt from verizon and you could never hear when somebody tried to contact you via ptt. Hopefully sprint does the right thing and continues to pursue in making it better.

By: d larson

d larson — Fri, 04 Dec 2009 12:46:21 +0000

What you people DON’T understand is iDEN (Nextel) is not a cellphone. It is a nationwide trunked digital radio system for business, industry and government with “interconnect” into the PSTN (phone landline system). Before Sprint bought it thats what it was sold as. Mostly business had Nextel’s for dispatching workers and crews. It does not have the capacity to carry lot’s of phone traffic and data, but it is the BEST and ONLY robust nationwide trunked two-way radio system. For me it SO MUCH easier to push a button and INSTANTLY be in touch with my wife and associates. Texting is a joke when you think about it. It is a pain to dial a phone, wait for a connect and talk duplex. Just takes too lonk. Beep Beep and my voice is coming out of my wifes speaker! Use it for it’s strong points. If you REALLY need data and to yak yak on a phone for hours, get a Sprint hybrid that does Nextel PTT and Sprint PCS phone. Sprint needs to concentrate on marketing iDEN to business groups again, and not touting it as a cellphone!

By: bottomline

bottomline — Thu, 03 Dec 2009 04:28:53 +0000

Here here jj ! I agree with u completely ! Anyone who says that sprint ruined nextel is an idiot…….. Nextels reception was atrocious ! In fact, the merger helped nextel alot more than it helped sprint !

By: Duker

Duker — Thu, 03 Dec 2009 01:10:53 +0000

Sprint took iden for granted in the beginning of the merger. They have learned from their mistake….

By: Benjamin A

Benjamin A — Wed, 02 Dec 2009 09:13:43 +0000

I would have to say that there are some major roads that are covered by others including Sprint CDMA that Nextel doesn’t. Two major examples are I-70 from Salina KS to Denver (450 Miles) and I-10 from El Paso to San Antonio (550 Miles). If they care so much about iDEN service then at the very least they should catch the coverage up with its CDMA brother.

By: JJ

JJ — Wed, 02 Dec 2009 03:40:39 +0000

44,
How did sprint ruin nextel? Last I checked before hybrid nextel phones came around nextel had horrible coverage. Everytime I called someone on nextel I got the message “please wait while we locate the nextel subscriber you are trying to reach” then I just the voicemail. Now, when I call a nextel customer they actually pick up. Sprint expanded the nextel coverage not make it worse. It was only the merging of iden and cdma that screwed everything up. I know a lot of businesses use nextel ptt but most people use more data then the ptt. So it was very smart of them to mix evdo with nextel. Boost is very good but again they only run 1xx so if you want high speed thats not going to work. If you want ptt then have fun with boost.
Last time I checked more people were using more data than ptt. High speed data is the future. So you can go back to using your ptt while I tether my highspeed evdo phone to my laptop.