Handhelds/PDAs - Palm vs Zaurus vs others - Opinions? Experiences?

[Ben Scott]

On 3/21/07, Bill McGonigle <bill at bfccomputing.com> wrote:
> ... what NexTel has ...

  Since you bring it up: Nextel uses iDEN (which is incompatible with
everything else, of course).  I think Nextel is the only carrier in
the US to use iDEN.  iDEN was designed by Motorola as a wide-area
trunked radio service, which is why Nextel's PTT works so well, and
why it sucks at everything else.

  To make matters worse, Sprint is switching Nextel over to a hybrid
system, where PTT will use iDEN, and everything else will use Sprint's
CDMA network.  So they've stopped investing in iDEN infrastructure, as
there should be a drastic drop in load in a year or two.  But in the
meantime, there are areas where the Nextel traffic is overloading
existing iDEN infrastructure, leading to service impairment.

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