My NEXT radio acquisition. Yeah, I bought a Motorola APX NEXT again. 

Dude you must be very successful in your career to be able to afford all these radios..I’m jealous.Love your videos!!

You have an 8k antenna on your NEXT - NEXT antennas don't have GPS since its baked into the radio.

Id love to have one as a paramedic just for the amount of channel switching I do on a regular day. ViQi would be very helpful for those critical patients where I gotta keep my hands free to swap to a channel to communicate with Helicopters/ER

I like the map display screen where you can see where all your colleagues are.

So, I'm a paramedic in an extremely rural area and my county is apparently requiring all agencies to swap to our 800mhz phase II system, and I guess my agency is buying the next. I'm not sure how I feel about it. Our current analog VHF system is pretty terrible, our portables are almost unusable in most places, and we completely lose comms if we enter a building, so it's obviously a massive upgrade over that, but I'd honestly rather an apx 8000. I think the next is just too complicated, and honestly it's probably too fragile. I give it a few weeks before someone smashes the screen on the front. I'm also concerned about how much more expensive the next is. Someone will definitely lose one, and get reamed for that, an 8000 is expensive enough. I AM excited for viqi and the smartconnect feature though. Apparently since the next has LTE capabilities, combined with motorola smartconnect we should have radio reception basically anywhere with theoretically infinite range, since we often end up outside our county taking patients to the nearest trauma/burn center. That'll be massive for us, so I'm overall very excited. I just hope these things are as rugged as the 8000s.

hope I get a chance to play w/a NEXT one day. never even saw one yet

The only thing the APX NEXT buys one is Smart Connect, and it has to be added to one's Radio Central account and agency account to work on SC. It's just an APX8000 with a 4 year old Android phone with a locked down fork of Android on it. Not worth the hassle as a private user, an APX8K is a much better investment for private use.

You should make a video that showcases any special features of this radio that might be useful to amateur radio operators (if there are any). I love Motorola public safety radios, but I have a hard time justifying the expense when I will only be able to use a fraction of the features. Not to mention the fact that DMR is much more prevalent than P25 in my area.

Sick radio, I seen a chinese dude on e-Bay selling some of these units. The only bad thing is you rely on motorola to run that unit, not you.

My duty radio is an APX7000. I got to demo two APX NEXTs for the Eclipse back in April. My big complaints were it was slow to boot (since all of my Zone select functions are in the menu for my programming), I'm torn on SmartConnect because where I could use it...I have 7/800 MHz coverage (VHF Trunking for me). The extra width doesn't fit my hand as well. I don't really care much about SmartMapping or ViQi (Vicky), using Radio Central (I'm trying to migrate 2300+ radios to RM and they won't support Radio Central) either. That being said, I think the writing is on the wall...a new APX8000 versus the NEXT is a $200 price difference when you compare them optioned for the features that the APX8000 can support. The N70 just isn't worth it as it's only really $700 less than a single band NEXT (which is just about the price of adding an extra band to a NEXT). I'll end up buying a next at some point...but I'm not in a massive hurry to.

🇦🇺 Australia 🇦🇺 is watching 👀 Awesome videos..

I haven't heard anyone talk about the NEXT and NAS. I know it works but I couldn't find a way to make it where you can't access all the talk groups/channels in the radio, it's pretty much like a mobile when it comes to NAS. I removed the channel menu in the CPS but it doesn't remove it from the radio, giving access to all zones and channels.

I bet your probably right about the 8000 being more futureproof, though on a side note did you get past the programming issues you had with your last one? if so, how does it compare to the normal APX CPS (if i remember correctly the NEXT uses some web based thing right?)

Great video. I know the NEXT cannot make or receive phone calls. Have you tried installing a VoIP application, and could you use a Bluetooth headset to make calls that way? Just curious if you would consider trying that. My daily carry is an 8000HXE.

For me .. I haven't touched the Next.. But I feel like, for first responders there's a lot of features that aren't needed. And more features most of the time, means much more to go wrong. I've got APX4000's in service at the moment, and there's some people who struggle with them. I could only imagine those people with the next.

I wonder how you would rate the new Comjot CJ1 that should be out from qn outfit 😅n La. I think is where they are it is similar to the APX Next and Motorola Ion and you will be able to get it at Gagaparts once they get final approval from the feds if you feel the need I would really like tour opinion on that radio if tou could give it

Hooooo weeee that’s an expensive radio. But it’s really really nice

Will you do a video on just alone the vp8000 from kenwood please

Does the APX NEXT have Bluetooth built in to connect to a Bluetooth mic?

Where did you acquire one of these?

14,000 radio 😂.... nope .... Won't ever spend that on a radio

how much was it and are you sell any lol