My parents and all their friends used to use PTT with their Nextel phones. It was a super handy feature. I wonder why it fell out of style. Seemed more convenient and less tedious than a phone call for short communications.
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rc__buggy@sh.itjust.works 6 hours agoConstruction workers, for sure. I miss PTT from NEXTEL (Motorola radio built into the phone) that shit was awesome.
rudyharrelson@lemmy.radio 5 hours ago
rc__buggy@sh.itjust.works 5 hours ago
Money, I think. Motorola radio communication isn’t very cheap.
dustyData@lemmy.world 5 hours ago
There are both open source and commercial apps that do PTT over internet. It turns phones into radio, it even has the capability to have central radio operation rooms for companies and such. It’s all automated.
rc__buggy@sh.itjust.works 4 hours ago
I can’t get these people to use Signal instead of SMS.
But nothing internet dependent will turn a phone into a radio. We are in places where even 4G doesn’t reach sometimes and if there was a Motorola repeater onsite it’d be great. I’ve got our company trying it out and the SL300 has been a game changer for our communication on site.