Word on the street is that Verizon has released Push to Talk for BlackBerry devices. The 170KB application can be downloaded from the Verizon App Center, however, you must call Verizon customer service to activate Push to Talk on your plan and there is a $5.00 per month charge for the service.
With Verizon Push to Talk you can:
- Make quick exchanges.
Push one button to contact team members or clients. - Place group calls.
Hold conversations with as many as 50 total participants. - Check team member status with Presence.
See who is available for a Push to Talk call. - Manage contacts for the entire company online.
Add, delete and assign contacts, create groups and more. - Use one number, one device.
Make and receive voice calls without needing a second device or phone number. - Enjoy coast-to-coast coverage.
Connect on our nationwide broadband network, and get expanded coverage across the United States within the National Enhanced Services Rate and Coverage Area.
If anyone decides to give the service a go, we would love to hear your initial impressions. Just leave us a note in the comments.
Another nice feature on an already great “communication” device like the BB. This is certainly something that can come in handy for me personally with my group.
I would certainly love to have this, it’s the only thing I miss from the days of my Nextel 7100i BlackBerry.
That said, as it’s only available for the Tour and some smattering of feature phones, that isn’t going to help me. It needs to be out for ALL Blackberry such as Tour, and Storm, and Storm2, and Curve2. I can see not supporting it on the older 8130/8330/8703e/8830 since they weren’t EV-DO Rev A, but they need to get it going on ALL Rev A devices from ALL manufacturers if they want their PTT to succeed where ATT’s GSM and Sprint’s EV-DO attempts have failed so miserably so far.