walkie talkie

mech_supernova

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• Mar 23, 2008

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I searched and couldent find anything in this fourm or anywere else. I dont know how PTT or walkie talkie's work but I was thinking they work vary similar and I could be way off on this but I was wondering is there any way to use the PTT part of the phone as a simple short range walkie talkie that will communicate with simple stand alone walkie talkies? I saw a wifi program but I am prettysure walkie talkie's dont communicate via wifi.

 

ChumleyEX

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• Mar 23, 2008

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hmm that would be kinda cool. Wanna go out in the back yard and play commando?

 

mech_supernova

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• Mar 23, 2008

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ChumleyEX said:

hmm that would be kinda cool. Wanna go out in the back yard and play commando?

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lol something like that, it would be useful to me at work when me and the guys I work for are on different floors.

 

gthing

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• Mar 23, 2008

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I'm going to say no. AFAIK, PTT works more like a regular phone call than an actual walkie-talkie. I don't think the phone has any other kind of radio inside of it.

 

ChumleyEX

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• Mar 23, 2008

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ah man, why the buzz kill. We're not friends anymore!

 

mech_supernova

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• Mar 24, 2008

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gthing said:

I'm going to say no. AFAIK, PTT works more like a regular phone call than an actual walkie-talkie. I don't think the phone has any other kind of radio inside of it.

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yea thats kinda what I was thinking

 

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pyro9219

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• Mar 24, 2008

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Several Instant messaging applications (Agile Mobile and Palringo(free), for example) offer a walkie talky like functionality, as long as you are on a data plan or WiFi you can use it.

Palringo even goes a step further with having "Groups" so that you can use the voice chat with a group of people all at the same time.

 

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ChInEsE ChIcKeN

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• Mar 28, 2008

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yea that was what i was about to say

 

shorty66

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• Mar 28, 2008

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you wont be able to use normal walki talki frequenzies. The normal frequenzies are PMR wich is in the ~446mhz band. our phone work in 850/900/1800/1900 mhz. way off.
Perhaps theres some way to make a new firmware for the radiochips wich would support them, but i doubt that its possible.

As you wont be able to communicate with normal radios, there wont be much sense for you to use that as work.