I think we can all agree that technology is cool as shit, but let’s be real here. You weren’t cool as shit unless you had a Nextel. Which model/models did you guys have? Team i580
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The one with the instant walkie talkie mode? Yah that was cool
LG envy user here! Loved that thing.
Also had an original motorola droid!
Bonus points if you still have it. Actually that’s a sign I need to throw some s*it away. Nokia was all the rage
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Dont throw that away. You can use that as an insert for a bullet proof vest
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Damn…never had one but always wanted one. Ended up getting a Blackberry instead lol
I think you had to be on a certain carrier like Sprint to have the PTT feature that Nextel supported.
Nokias were all the rage before and kept getting smaller and smaller (Zoolander anyone?). Also the Motorola Razors were hot.
I had a Samsung flip phone for years. Think it’s still my profile avatar for other forums.
I think the nextel was only on sprint at the time.
It was the perfect ‘walkie talkie’ for any kind of contractors, no range issues, and Push to Talk was within a few seconds. Of course PTT caused other issues due to it’s instant on ability.
I wonder why it got discontinued
Because it ran on the IDEN network (which was amazing) and big brother couldn’t listen in
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Cingular isn’t Defunct, it’s called AT&T, now the Bandwidth it uses is defunct.
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From the many baby bells, back to mama bell… meh…
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Blackberry will always have my 
BBM for the win
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Nextel was its own network until merging with Sprint in the mid 2000s. They shut off the Nextel network and moved everyone to Sprint a few years later.
I worked somewhere that probably had a few thousand Nextel devices. When they shut down we switched to radios that were not even close to being comparable.
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Got my first phone in 1997-98. Was only allowed to use it for emergencies. I remember only getting like 10 mins free a month then it was something crazy like $1/min.
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Before it was a mobile phone it was a car phone in the 90s. Speaking of coolness and $1 a minute calls.
I still remember when free nights and weekends was introduced. What a game changer.
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My father had one installed in his ‘85 LeSabre. Was so cool but we hardly ever used it due to how expensive each call was lol.