Sprint To Re-Vamp with iDen & Smarter Devices

Sprint Nextel is commited to their investment in the iDEN network. In effort to attract new customers and secure the loyalty of current subscribers, new phones and more features will be revealed this year.First will be the anticipated push-to-talk system for Sprint's CDMA (Code Division Multiple Access) customers. It will work on new handsets and between all existing iDEN devices. Two of the latest phones are cited in this article.

Sprint Sticks with iDEN, Push-to-Talk Customers By: Stephen Lawson, IDG News Service PCWorld.com Feb. 2, 2008

Sprint Nextel will pour more money into the iDEN network it inherited from Nextel, coming out with new handsets and adding features to its popular push-to-talk system.The struggling mobile operator, whose subscriber base is third-largest in the U.S. but declining, has been operating two networks since the merger of Sprint and Nextel Communications in 2005. The new company then said it would cap off investment in iDEN after the end of 2007. But even though Sprint is losing subscribers faster on iDEN than on its CDMA (Code Division Multiple Access) network and average revenue per iDEN user is falling, the company last year said it would keep investing in the network until at least 2012....Direct Connect isn't standing still. The more immediate change, coming early this year, will be the introduction of a long-awaited push-to-talk system for Sprint's CDMA customers. It will work on a set of new CDMA handsets, and people will be able to use it between those new phones and all existing iDEN devices, she said.
Building on the combination of Direct Connect and Sprint Mobile Broadband services, Sprint is planning new features such as "push-to-x," which will let people send text messages, images and other data through a simpler process than current messaging systems, said spokeswoman Stephanie Greenwood....While restating its commitment to iDEN on Wednesday, Sprint highlighted two handsets recently introduced for the network. The Motorola i570, introduced this month, is designed for tough environments and offers voice-activated dialing and one-touch shortcuts to phone features. The Motorola i335, introduced last November, is built to military specifications for dust, shock and vibration. http://news.yahoo.com/s/pcworld/20080202/tc_pcworld/142123;_ylt=AowxZKaqUyZpBtBRpS0pRwes0NUE

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