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Re:Eric Engstrom, co-creator of DirectX, has died by amscanne on Tuesday December 15, 2020 @01:17AM (#25427550)
Not sure about the US, but Canada had such a mixed cellular & push-to-talk network in the 90s called MIKE, and it was quite popular in some industries (e.g. trades). I don’t think it was actually a walk-in-talkie, but the user experience was identical.
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Re:Eric Engstrom, co-creator of DirectX, has died by Exmoor on Tuesday December 15, 2020 @01:41AM (#25427671)
In the USA it was Nextel.
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Re:Eric Engstrom, co-creator of DirectX, has died by pfarrell on Tuesday December 15, 2020 @03:45AM (#25428303)
Exactly. Those phones were very popular on construction job sites. Have a buddy who used to sell them. He talked me into getting one that supported J2ME. It really wasn’t much, but, in 2002/3, was the aha moment that showed where programmable phones would go.
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