Originally posted by Shaktai
Remember that your Nextel is a Motorola. Knowing Motorola they will continue to be behind the curve on this. Nextel needs an alternative supplier, but hasn't had much luck finding one yet, due to the unique nature of their technology. Supposedly Motorola is supposed to bring out a "blue tooth" compatible phone for Nextel, but no-one is holding their breath.
There was a time where Nextel had two phone suppliers. Motorola and Kyocera. But somewhere between inception and completion, Kyocera backed out. So Nextel still only has the one supplier.
Now, onto the Bluetooth subject. Motorola (or any cell phone manufacturer) builds phones to the specifications that their customers wants. And by customers, I mean the wireless providers, not the end user. If Nextel wanted a Bluetooth enabled iDen phone to sell to their suscribers, then Motorola would build one for them. The fact that there isn't a Bluetooth Nextel phone underscores the belief (wrong or right) of the Nextel folks that their customers don't want Bluetooth phones.
Motorola won't make any advancements to their iDen phones that Nextel (or SouthernLINC) doesn't want. Moto doesn't want to build tons of phones with no buyers. It's not like they can sell them to Verizon or T-Mobile.
Oh well, still pretty cool.
