In the fierce battle among wireless phone companies, Nextel Communications Inc. has had one unique advantage: its walkie-talkie phones. The dual-use phones are especially popular with construction ...

WASHINGTON – Cingular Wireless on Monday will launch a push-to-talk cell phone service, becoming the latest company to challenge Nextel’s walkie-talkie technology. To date, no national carrier has ...

KIRKLAND, Wash. & PLANTATION, Fla. – Nextel Partners, Inc. (Nasdaq:NXTP) and Motorola, Inc. (NYSE:MOT) today announced availability of the first wireless handset with MP3 playing capabilities and ...

Six months ago, an application that allows cell phones to morph into walkie-talkies was heralded as the next big thing in wireless telephony. Suddenly the blue-collar feature was hip and everyone had ...

Nextel Communications Inc. is the scrawny kid who grew up to become a scrappy fighter. "A couple of years ago, I think people said, 'These guys don't have a chance. They have a funky technology, a ...

Nextel is now owned by Sprint, which is pulling the plug on June 30. But a Bay Area start-up is hoping to scoop up some of Nextel's customers. Nextel was the first phone to act like a walkie-talkie, ...

LAS VEGAS – Sprint PCS launched a new service in the U.S. Monday that lets customers talk on their phones as if they were walkie-talkies, taking on established leader Nextel Communications Inc. in the ...

July 8, 2006 Mobile phones have always been more resistant to abuse than they look, but a phone can never be too rugged for our liking and if you work in construction or a host of other industries ...

Developed by Motorola, the technology turns cell phones into walkie-talkies by connecting to other phones without dialing and within just a few seconds. The cell phone network gear used for the ...

Sprint PCS launched its version of push-to-talk Monday that lets customers use their wireless phones as if they were walkie-talkies. Sprint PCS’ Ready Link service is the third of its kind to hit the ...