Nextel Phones

Push to talk is the new rage among non-Nextel providers, they all want it.

I’m not sure why. This annoying lady came into Starbucks attempting to place an order for a friend who was also on a Nextel phone. These things are really like a walky talky and not a telephone, which means EVERYONE can hear the whole conversation. So instead of just making a phone call, she went back and forth, so we all knew what her friend ordered. At least on cell phones we only hear one side of the conversation, on push-to-talk we hear both.

If we think cell phones are bad these Push-to-talk things are going to be really fricking annoying! Especially once there are a lot of them.

Now we’re going to have to deal with people who are invading the conversation zones with walky talkies, bringing attention to themselves with the “Bleeeeep!” that their phones make on every message and that grab attention.

New technology brings new etiquette so when does the push-to-talk etiquette debate start? Maybe its going to get pushed to the side by the camera phone debate…

Sigh, technology moves too fast.