http://mobile.engadget.com/2008/02/02/qchat-enabled-lg-for-sprint-in-the-wild/ Engadget Mobile Comments for QChat-enabled LG for Sprint in the wild http://mobile.engadget.com/media/feedlogo.gif http://mobile.engadget.com en-us Copyright 2009 Weblogs, Inc. The contents of this feed are available for non-commercial use only. Blogsmith http://www.blogsmith.com/http://mobile.engadget.com/2008/02/02/qchat-enabled-lg-for-sprint-in-the-wild/http://mobile.engadget.com/2008/02/02/qchat-enabled-lg-for-sprint-in-the-wild/Feb 22nd 2008 12:22AMhttp://mobile.engadget.com/2008/02/02/qchat-enabled-lg-for-sprint-in-the-wild/http://mobile.engadget.com/2008/02/02/qchat-enabled-lg-for-sprint-in-the-wild/
I have no doubt they can screw up the architecture of Qchat as badly as they did with DirectConnect, er, PTT, um, WalkieTalkie. (And I say this as someone who sat in a conference room in Tampa in 1996 with a district and regional manager from Nextel, told them they needed to implement what they would later call Cross-fleet and Nationwide, and was told "nah; they'll never do that. Our customers aren't telling us they need that.".

I did; my client did. Look; there it was.

For Qchat, they need easy iDen interop, a PC/Internet desktop client -- even if they bill it as a separate line of service -- and the ability to cluster said desktops into a dispatch group, with manual release of the operator-radio association from the operator side.

Extra bonus points for using open protocols on the Internet interface.

That won't be what we get, though.]]>Feb 22nd 2008 2:43PM