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SONY Ericsson has now announced that they will be releasing Push-To-Talk handsets, much like Motorola's V60p and SprintPCS's ReadyLink phones, etc.

For the WAP'ers:

SonyEricsson to launch Push to Talk handsets
Sonim and Sony Ericsson are to collaborate to integrate Push-to-Talk capability in SonyEricsson phones, based on the Push to talk over Cellular (PoC) standard, ensuring the interoperability required to create substantial subscriber adoption.


"We're very excited to collaborate with Sony Ericsson to develop the new generation interoperable, standard-based PTT mobile phones," said John Burns, CEO and President for Sonim Technologies. "Sony Ericsson is in an excellent position to take advantage of the rich functionality included in Sonim's mobile phone software, providing attractive and user-friendly handsets for the rapidly growing PoC-market."

Sonim and Sony Ericsson are contributing members of the worldwide consortium that submitted the PoC specification to the Open Mobile Alliance (OMA) on 15 August 2003. Sony Ericsson leverages Sonim's expertise in Push-to-Talk and the time-to-market advantage of Sonim's client software in order to produce PoC compliant handsets that target a large mobile telephony market worldwide. The relationship will also provide the parties with a platform to further collaborate on product roadmaps for future generation PoC-based applications such as Direct Messaging and IP Conferencing.

"We support the OMA PoC standardization work, and in order to realize a standards based PTT application we will be integrating Sonim's PTT solution in our products. It provides reduced time to market owing to the proven technology and because its compatibility and interoperability with the mobile infrastructure," said Jan Wareby, Executive Vice President and Head of Sales and Marketing at Sony Ericsson. "We are pleased to continue our work with Sonim to create the best, feature-rich PTT experience for operators throughout the world."

The PoC specification defined and supported by industry leaders such as Ericsson and Siemens is the standard for carrier-grade Push-to-Talk solutions. The specification aims to provide consumers and business users a seamless Push-to-Talk experience, and the ability to enjoy the service with any enabled handset anywhere around the world. The Sonim PoC Client also enables mobile operators to accelerate their PTT deployment plans with the security of complete interoperability.


From Cellular News, Friday 27th February 2004

Ethan
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Posted: 2004-02-28 21:21:39
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of course they are

were never a big presence in the US to begin with, and the market is new to them... with it's PTT
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Posted: 2004-02-28 21:59:16
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I've heard about this push-to-talk concepts and stuff even when Sony and Ericsson were apart... Ericsson was planning to make a walkie-talkie over the GSM operators... I don't know why it took them so long to do this...

PS: If you want proof, I'm sorry that I won't be bothered to look at it now... Maybe later...
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Posted: 2004-02-28 22:14:36
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This has nothing to do with SE. Speaking for the US the hold up was due to the carriers not having the network in place. Cingular and AT&T wireless are the only 2 (or 1 really) wireless carrier that doesn't have PTT yet. SE doesn't have a contract with Verizon as far as I know and Nextel does their own thing with phones, so there's no reason for them to make PTT phones until the carriers that use their equipment supply this service.

This situation could be totally different in international markets though.


!snap
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Posted: 2004-02-28 22:23:27
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PTT is not big anywhere other than the USA.

It doesn't exist here and afaik the networks over here would not support it anyway.
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Posted: 2004-02-28 23:37:00
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PTT isn't even a feature I'm interested in. I don't want or need the ability to connect to others like that, and I really don't like the speaker aspect to Nextel's service. It's really annoying hearing everyone with Nextel service shouting at their phones everywhere I go. Maybe my opinion will change when the feature becomes available to me, but I doubt it.


!snap
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Posted: 2004-02-29 00:04:10
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remeber the ericsson R250spro? you know that big shockproof orange one. well that had a sort or walky talky function, but it was also network related
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Posted: 2004-02-29 00:51:33
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PTT was free talk time nationwide i believe, so there are definite advatages to it
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Posted: 2004-02-29 00:56:53
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we are getting PTT in australia next mnth with the launch of the 5140....

telstra and optus (our service providers) are the first in the world to trial PTT over GSM ...
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Posted: 2004-02-29 01:40:35
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http://www.cellular.co.za/pho[....]sson/archive/eric_r250_pro.htm

Look at the features, push to talk button. But it WAS network related, so I do not know how many used it.

Looks like Ericsson was first, by a few years......

-Knut
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Posted: 2004-02-29 12:01:24
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