Chat Instantly - Florida <=> South CA <=> Boston NOW!
 

FYI
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The 3 markets listed above are active as far as Nationwide Direct Connect from Nextel in concerned!!!

So, teams from Boston or South California could to PTT (Push-to-talk a.k.a Walkie-Talkie) teams here in Florida RIGHT NOW if they knew each others "Private ID". Other markets will be up over the next couple weeks/months.

(Now, if we could only improve coverage inside Reliant Stadium.....yet another reason to go back to Disney World!!)



Communication amongst FIRST Teams will never be the same.
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(No disrespect to CD but) Imagine not having to wait for a post by so-and-so. Instead "key him up" on your iDEN Nextel handset and chat or find the answer to a problem.

There are 100's of other great use-case scenarios.



Improve your own teams communication!
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This year staff at Dillard HS had Nextel, and the Motorolans were able to communicate instantly and much more effectively than in all year's previous combined....imho.



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Any idea when the full Nationwide Direct Connect is coming online? I know it's soon, but is there any announced roll-out plan?

Yeah :D So I could actually finally use my Direct Connect with more than 2 people maybe?

direct connect...?

someone want to fill me in?

Haven't you heard the Nextel commercials? It's the "digital two-way radio feature." It lets you connect to any other Nextel subscriber in your area (for now) if you know their Private ID (sortof like an account number). You can then talk to them with the push of a button, just like if you were using a two-way radio. It's a really neat feature. Pretty soon, you'll be able to use it with any Nextel subscriber anywhere in the country.

I was going to get a nextel but i wanted to wait for the nation wide system, also theres not many people in my area with them I hope that once its nation wide i can talk to some of my friends from teams across the country with out the high prices.

Are there any other cell phone providers that will have this feature available too???.... such as... Motorola or Verizon..?

oh, i have an LG phone, on a verizon plan. nation wide, nights and weekends free.

i find it perfectly fine, and just as useful. jim "fotoplasma" gold knows that, as me, meli w., and jeff wetzel called him from the annapolis regional at like, 6 or 7 in the morning PST, because we needed a phone number, that was on a website, and we had no other way to get it :p. needless to say, after a bit of convincing, jim got the phone number, and we got more gears :p.

now, to get someone to get a nextel phone....

I believe Nextel is the only US provider that offers Direct Connect. It's a proprietary feature of the iDEN network.

Nextel is the only service provider with the direct connect feature. That is why they can have such high plans and stillg et away with it. Dont get me wrong i think nextel is one of the best providers. They get good reception, they have the internet,speaker phone(i know some other companeys have it but not alot), and what boost them about the competiton is def the direct connect. How i pay foir my nextel, is my dad writes it off as a business expense so it brings the montly payments down alot. So if you are thingking about getting them for like yoru team or something and cant get them donated then try to write off as a business expense

Nextel should have a special "rate" for people in FIRST Robotics! It would be cool as heck. They can say they support FIRST robotics, while we save money!!

That would be a great compaign for them...

that would be so cool

That would be cool, i dont know how we pull it off. But motorla could also help and get us teh i 95 so we dont have to pay the $300 price tag :)

i know a few years ago they made FIRST faceplates for thier phones and all the FIRST people had them

Heck, we're one of the big Motorola teams and WE can't even get the phones. My nokia always goes with me to motorola. Hey! If I got an iDen for the same price as my nokia, I'd DEFINETLY go with the iDen...but you can't beat free ;)



Oh, and yes, we're the faceplate people and we're still making them. Usually we don't have many of them, but if you've got an iDen phone, come by the sigmaC@T Team next year and see if we've got any for ya. They're pretty cool actually.

:)
 

Jim you're off the team until you switch.... ;)

The team hasn't all rx'd free phones b/c we haven't won the chairman's.... That offer from years ago is still valid!! (Re)Tell your classmates!

The faceplates were for the i50sx model.

Yes, nextel is only nation-wide direct-connect provider. There is a company called Boost that sells same stuff under different name.

KA-108 :cool:

nextel's site used to have an interactive map that said which cities would be up in which month. they seem to have changed maps to just a static view of the entire nation....

during game 3 of cup finals they had a nation-wide commercial and didn't mention anything about certain cities up or not up....

I have a schedule that lists the order of several large cities (mostly east coast), but not sure if that's public info yet...

What's interesting is the handsets have had the capability for 5+ years now... :ahh:

KA-108 :cool:

June 16
 

Just found this:

http://biz.yahoo.com/bw/030602/25553_1.html


June 16.



KA-108 :cool:

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Hmm.... I never knew about that offer.

::Thinks to self "Must assemble team of GOOD english students..."::

English students, in TECH? Your best bet was Mark, but hes gone now. Yeah, not to mention you're stuck with '04, '05 and '06. Yeah, good luck finding those english students.

Oh.. :(



...Wait! We have the Tarravelans!

Again, math kids. Think about what you're saying here.... lol Actually, you're probably the best bet for next year, scary huh?

Re: :)
 

I cant help but cringe at this statement. Please dont take this the wrong way. This seems like a pretty twisted idea, it never made sense to me how teams PURPOSELY do things SPECIFICLY to help them win a chairmans award. It kind of dirties the whole idea. But i know that if we got free phones that would probably help motivate us, but the chairmans award isn't something that you should do things for just to win it.

Bah. Enough of that.

I dont really care for the 'direct conenct' idea, my dad has one of those nextels, and i dont see how it is any more useful then just calling the person and talking to them, now i have to push a button before i talk. Why not just call em and talk normaly?

Re: Re: :)
 

It sounds like it's just a challenge or incentive. There's nothing wrong with that. Sure, you should be doing the Chairman's Award for its own sake, but if you're not already treating it that way, you probably won't win anyways. What's the harm in trying to have a little fun with it?

English and taravella doesn't mix Jim. Just at look at who is on our team. The only one that could be of any help would be little Bouhenguel (sp?).

BTW I sure no one from Taravella knew of that offer as well. We don't even find out about exrta mtgs. to 7th period.

Re: Re: :)
 

Relax, It's not like that.

Cost savings. Most conversatoins are very short. Dont get me wrong, Nextelians use the phone too.

KA-108