The next big thing in cellular telephony ?????????

Walkie Talkie function on GSM cellphone using GPRS data channel independent
of telephony function per se.

Uses Symbian O/S. Nokia say ALL their phones will have this walkie talkie
feature by 2005. Allows instant coms to selected individuals OR group and
(in NZ anyway) costs are per data (time sending) used (assuming GPRS pricing
applies).

 http://www.cellular-news.com/story/10106.shtml

    Also

        http://www.theregister.co.uk/content/68/33956.html


This transatlantic example shows that the heading above is wrong

        http://www.infosyncworld.com/news/n/2941.html

As does this
Fast Chat. US
Mentions Siemens, Samsung and Sendo are producing Symbian handsets.

        http://www.3g.co.uk/PR/May2003/5355.htm

Siemens "PoC"  (Push-to-Talk over cellular)
" ... will be a big hit in 2004".
PoC on entire Siemens range by mid 2004
(not what they say further down)

    http://www.3g.co.uk/PR/Dec2003/6254.htm



        Russell McMahon

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