AviSprint Enters PTT

Sprint enters the Push -To-Talk market with 2 new phones form Sanyo. Of course, Sprint has their own name for it - PCS ReadyLink. According to Avi Greengart form Jupiter Research:

"Sprint announced this week that they're launching a Push To Talk service (Reuters). I had a chance to play with the phones last week in an ideal environment (Sprint's campus in Kansas City), so I reserve judgement on real world performance. But if what I experienced holds true, Sprint has a real winner here.....

Nextel offers a variety of handsets, most of which are clunky, and only a few have color or consumer-friendly Java and ringtone capabilities. This works well for some business users - the phones are pretty much indestructable - but not consumers, who prize size above all else"