The much awaited initial shipment of QChat enabled phones (that’s Sprint’s long promised Direct Connect replacement) have popped up online at the Sprint site following this April 10 press release announcing availability for Kansas and Colorado subscribers. So far their debut is limited to a help section of the site and apparently all ordering has to be done via Sprint direct sales. Interestingly the Sprint site make no mention of QChat - instead referring to it as Direct Connect as show on the following screen shots. PS - Yes, these phones do connect to old style Nextel’s - check the video demo on the next page for proof.

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