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PTT
Applications
PTT
Push To Talk (PTT) feature allows
you to contact your family,
friends, and co-workers instantly.
Note
: Push To Talk requires a service subscription
with your service provider.
Contact Types
PTT contacts and groups are separate from the
phone’s native contact list. The following defines the
difference between personal contacts and groups
and corporate contacts and groups for PTT:
•
Personal Contacts
: Contacts can be imported
from the phone’s native contact list or manually
entered. Some phones may not have this ability if
the corporate administrator has restricted manual
contact entry.
•
Personal Groups
: Groups can be created from
the PTT contact list. Some phones may not have
this ability if the corporate administrator has
restricted manual group creation.
•
Administrator Contacts and Groups
: A corporate
administrator can add PTT contacts and groups
directly into the corporation’s phones. Contacts
and groups added by a corporation cannot be
deleted or changed.
Note
: Corporate administrators can disallow certain
functions, such as adding or deleting contacts and
groups, and you may not be able preform certain
functions for a corporate group.
Initializing Push to Talk Service
1. Press the
PTT Hotkey
.
– or –
From a Home screen, press
Menu
>
PTT
.
The message
Do you want to login to PTT?
displays.
2. Press
Yes
or the
Centre
key to initialize PTT.
– or –
Press
No
to exit.
3. To initialize or change the display name, press
Options
>
Settings
>
Display Name
and enter
your PTT name (up to 30 characters) in the
Enter Name
field. Press
Save
or the
Centre
key.
4. A series of pop-ups display on the screen,
informing you that initialization has begun.
Initialization can take several minutes.
5. When initialization is complete, the PTT Home
screen is displayed and PTT is ready for use.
The
PTT Available
icon displays on the
screen.
Note
: Throughout the rest of this section, the
instructions usually begin with pressing the PTT
Hotkey to launch PTT. However, the PTT Hotkey can
be reassigned to a different app. If so, PTT can be
launched by going to
Menu
>
PTT
.
