13 December 2005
Cingular Launches Push-to-Talk
Posted by Ryan Sarver under: Business; Mobile; Technology .
Cingular today launched their new Push-to-Talk service with some unique features.
Some of the great new features include Presence Management, which they call availability, Convert to Cellular and Voice Messaging. Its great to see them integrating services like presence into the application and it should allow for some great new applications to come. The more a phone, and thus the applications, can know about the environment that it is currently in, the better tuned the features can be to that setting.
Currently it looks like they are only releasing it with one phone, the LG F7200, but have plans to release a Bluetooth-capable, clamshell phone — the Samsung D357 — capable of the new functionality in the near future.
