I don't know much about Nextel, but I don't see a single reason why Sprint is holding onto Nextel this badly. Is Nextel that good of an investment? Are there enough Nextel consumers for Sprint to continue its support for it? As far as I know, people want more tech'y phones that have slide out QWERTY keypads, touchscreens and such but not some rugged push-to-talk cell phones that are so 5 years ago.
In my opinion, if you haven't figured it out yet, I think they should just behead Nextel and focus on getting some of Verizon's market share and therefore go on with the future of WiMAX. If anyone else thinks that Nextel should say, please reply.
not everyone wants qwerty pads, or smartphones most folks want/need a phone that makes good calls and decent battery life thats why most phones are in one of three tiers, basic, mid-level, and hi-end phones I will admit that while in the past, sprint had the best phone selections, they have fallen woefully behind the game in that regard, but then they don't mercilessly feature-lock their phones and force a specific interface structure like verizon does
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I don't know much about Nextel, but I don't see a single reason why Sprint is holding onto Nextel this badly. Is Nextel that good of an investment? Are there enough Nextel consumers for Sprint to continue its support for it? As far as I know, people want more tech'y phones that have slide out QWERTY keypads, touchscreens and such but not some rugged push-to-talk cell phones that are so 5 years ago.
In my opinion, if you haven't figured it out yet, I think they should just behead Nextel and focus on getting some of Verizon's market share and therefore go on with the future of WiMAX. If anyone else thinks that Nextel should say, please reply.
not everyone wants qwerty pads, or smartphones
most folks want/need a phone that makes good calls and decent battery life
thats why most phones are in one of three tiers, basic, mid-level, and hi-end phones
I will admit that while in the past, sprint had the best phone selections, they have fallen woefully behind the game in that regard, but then they don't mercilessly feature-lock their phones and force a specific interface structure like verizon does