This has to rank on my top 10 list, so let me paint you a picture. You are walking through the grocery store, with the list your wife handed to you, trying to find that very specific kind of noodle that she wants to cook with. As you are contemplating…how can there be so many noodles…a perfectly normal human being walks by. All of the sudden you hear it..
beep beep! Honey! Don’t forget to pick up paper towels! beep beep!
beep! beep! I know…you told me 5 times this morning…I got it! beep! beep!
beep! beep! Ok…just making sure…you forgot last time! beep! beep!
Great! Another person in a public area with a Nextel phone that wants us…their attentive audience…to hear EVERYTHING they say to their gracious talker on the other end of the phone! Why on Earth, do these people insist on making all of their conversations public knowledge?
I can understand the Nextel direct connect when you are in a construction zone, but when you leave the site…leave the direct connect too. Nowadays…cell phone minutes are practically free. When they were 50 cents a minute, direct connect made sense. Now, with free mobile to mobile calling within your network, there is no reason to play with your walkie talkie button.
I don’t know why anyone would want to sign up with the Sprint/Nextel camp anyway. They have the worst phones on the market and their service is terrible. During the year I had a Sprint phone, I used it like a pager unless I was on a major highway near a major city. It was almost like as soon as you got on an off ramp…your service just died. What good is a cell phone if it is basically just an answering machine? It’s ok though…the Sprint Nextel CEO Dan Hesse says they are the best in the commercials…so they must be! They do sponsor Nascar after all…I guess they could only figure out how to get a call to go one way.
And you don’t want to get me started on their customer service…or lack there of…
So to all of you with direct connect, quit making your conversations available to the public. We do not care what you have to say and we would like to be able to concentrate on something else other than your extremely boring phone conversation.
I could not agree more! Also, I used to have to carry one for work and years later I still get that dread feeling when I hear the chirp.
@Sonya
I bet it runs shivers down your spine at this point. You were that girl in the grocery store weren’t you…
ha ha … we’re doing work with cell client and they gave us several phones to test their PTT feature and they do that *beep beep* when you’re on “walkie-talkie” mode … what people don’t understand is that you can turn that feature off