Developed by Motorola, the technology turns cell phones into walkie-talkies by connecting to other phones without dialing and within just a few seconds. The cell phone network gear used for the ...

The Zello Walkie Talkie app is at the top of the iPhone app store, leading some users wondering why a walkie talkie is the most download iPhone app of the week. As it turns out the Zello Walkie Talkie ...

Blog posts on the Zello website ( here and here ) explain how Zello is indeed a push-to-talk messaging app, like a walkie-talkie, that can be used in a natural disaster. It allows people to ...

Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. Walkie-talkies do what most phones cannot: allow you to communicate in areas with no cell service. Not only that but they come ...

Cave drawings, smoke signals, letters, Pony Express, telegrams, phone calls, text messages. From the dawn of civilization, man has experimented with different modes of communication, each with pros ...

July 8, 2006 Mobile phones have always been more resistant to abuse than they look, but a phone can never be too rugged for our liking and if you work in construction or a host of other industries ...

If you love screaming into the phone at your subordinates while they listen mutely, you'll love push to talk -- or PTT as it's known to people who enjoy saying "Over." You can also broadcast to a ...

Admittedly we went a bit crazy with the rugged phones (who wouldn't?), but that was only after seeing CEO Jemes Yang (yes, it's Jemes) scaring us a few times by randomly dropping his own devices. What ...

The four major national cellular carriers in the U.S. plan to offer walkie-talkie-type push-to-talk service, which is currently provided only by Nextel Communications Inc. Sprint PCS Group and Verizon ...

One of the hallmarks of Boost Mobile prepaid phones in the early 2000s was their push-to-talk (PTT), or walkie-talkie, feature, which allowed you to play your voice through another Boost Mobile user's ...