NEXTEL was great, And for whatever stupid reason ended it, it was instant communication without having to make a phone call, I think “BIG” tech along with phone companies legislated out of existence.
Boost mobile bought out Nextel. I had one in 2004 and the “chirp” worked but not many of my friends had a boost mobile phone. As of today I have no idea if the “chirp” or walkie-talkie feature still exists.
Soooo, you realise 5000km is the distance between New York and London? So I can use these "walkie talkies" across the Atlantic Ocean is what you are saying?
Theres a lot of confusion. This is POC device, meaning push over cellular. It does require a sim card, but it can throw a voice call anywhere you can get a phonecall to. Provided you have someone on the other end whose settings are configured to yours, your talking. But since it uses the cell towers, this really isn't a walkie talkie, more like a cell phone.
Have you never noticed how they never tell you whether you need to be on a repeater whether you have to join a ham radio club to have subject to a repeater, they never tell you whether you going to need Wi-Fi , what they only show you a picture of something but never tell you what service you going to have to use because you know as well as I do that that little box is not going to give you a phone call across the world by itself that little tiny antenna the size of a bobby pin is not going to reach across the world, don't advertise it if you're not going to tell us the whole story of what type of service you got to pay for to hook to towers
This is stupid, no WT can go that far with a network involved or you have a Ham license and use HF radios with the right antennas or 2M or 440 with a network and repeaters involved. False advertising.
They're trash. The connection is through cell phone towers. When the power went out, they didn't work. I bought the Motorola dongle. It's 1000 times better. It uses satellite signal and is free for my first year. It's only 5 bucks a month after that. I travel to desolate areas and the Motorola is flawless
I was a trucker for 30 years and cb work the same way but the distance is 5miles in a straight linen I can see why this radio won't go longer range technology has changed who has a 1960 TV in formats?
