Well of course Motorola will lose the exclusive as iDEN is dead for public use in a couple years and is being replaced by Q-Chat which works on Sprints CDMA EV-DO Rev A network and has been made to be compatible with Direct Connect on iDEN but it is not a Motorola technology so any manufacturer can incorporate it into their devices.
iDEN is at it's end of life as far as technology goes. It's one great feature - Direct Connect - can be done better on new EV-DO Rev A technology.
I would imagine as time passes they will drop the 'Nextel' part entirely and just call it Direct Connect
NOT true! Sprint has promised thats The IDEN Network will be around until at least 2012! The only reason they are trying to migrate customers off is because of capacity reasons and it grew too fast! The EVDO network can handle MORE capacity for cheaper. Makes sense to me! After 2012 they will sell the IDEN network to the government.
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Well of course Motorola will lose the exclusive as iDEN is dead for public use in a couple years and is being replaced by Q-Chat which works on Sprints CDMA EV-DO Rev A network and has been made to be compatible with Direct Connect on iDEN but it is not a Motorola technology so any manufacturer can incorporate it into their devices.
iDEN is at it's end of life as far as technology goes. It's one great feature - Direct Connect - can be done better on new EV-DO Rev A technology.
I would imagine as time passes they will drop the 'Nextel' part entirely and just call it Direct Connect
NOT true! Sprint has promised thats The IDEN Network will be around until at least 2012! The only reason they are trying to migrate customers off is because of capacity reasons and it grew too fast! The EVDO network can handle MORE capacity for cheaper. Makes sense to me! After 2012 they will sell the IDEN network to the government.