Sprint Nextel Launches Push-to-Picture Service
Banking on the success of push-to-talk mobile phone services, Sprint Nextel on Monday announced a walkie-talkie service for sharing photographs.
ADVERTISEMENT Nextel Direct Send Picture lets customers send a picture to a person on the other end of a Nextel Walkie-Talkie call, without interrupting the call itself. The picture simultaneously appears on both the user's and recipient's phones during the call, and they can both view and discuss it.
"If you're in business, construction or real estate, you would take a picture of the property that you were trying to sell, and share that information with [recipients] so they can get a picture of what you're talking about," said Beverly Hodges, director of instant communication services at Sprint in Reston, Va.
Direct Send Picture is available immediately on the Motorola i870 phone, and will be included on all future Nextel phones, Hodges said. Software upgrades to enable Direct Send Picture will be available by the end of the year for several Nextel phone models, including the Motorola i850, i760, i560, i355 and i275....
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