talkies

My wife and I bring walkie-talkies on cruise ships, but an SMS is more discreet than a chirp and speakerphone.

Most people work outside offices, and they rely on outdated tools like SMS trees and walkie-talkies.

I guess the main difference is that walkie-talkies don't connect to your phone, or share text or GPS data.

I bought some walkie talkies, and the cashier insisted that I provide my name and address to make the purchase.

You can buy decent walkie talkies for £20, I'm not what paying £100 is getting me.

And the technology (like walkie talkies) had existed for decades before...

This is like saying cell phones are a rip off because you could use a $40 pair of walkie talkies without a monthly fee instead.

Here's a video of some captured gear.[3] From the video and descriptions, it looks like they're using walkie talkies with repeaters, like a police radio system.

People said the same thing about talkies and color film.

Walkie-talkies and other independent devices can help keep crowds coordinated.

Was with a advanced DoD company who was using this app to push the boundaries in the field for communications without walkie talkies or sat phones.

I never played with CB other than low power walkie talkies from radio shack.

There were similar outcries at the advents of colour movies and "talkies".

Delivering a short textual message, not in real-time but "instantly", with redundancy, error correction and retries, serves me better than walkie talkies.

Here in Ukraine this past winter the “designed in California” didn’t last too long during -13C..-18C nights, even with an external battery, so walkie-talkies were helpful at times.

"Look the things on the screen are moving, thus movie!" Or talkies.