We’ve just seen Motorola QA30 yesterday only to find out today that Alltel is going to pick it up and release it as Motorola Hint. And we have some more official specs for you:

• 1x-EVDO connectivity
• 2.5 inch TFT display with 320 x 240 pixels and 65K colors
• Threaded messaging
• Full HTML browser
• Facebook access
• Email, IM
• 3.5mm headset jack (nice!)
• Stereo Bluetooth 2.0
• USB 2.0
• 2MP camera
• MicroSD / MicroSDHC card support, up to 32GB

The Hint will be available from Alltel this Friday, November 28th which the Black Friday by the way. We don’t have details about pricing yet but we’re going to keep you updated.

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The HTC Touch Diamond has arrived for Alltel customers too. In case you don’t want to switch from Alltel to Sprint to get the Diamond, you won’t have to. You will have to sign a two-year agreement with Alltel to get the subsidized price of $249.99 for this HTC hot phone. Windows Mobile 6.1, EV-DO Rev. A, Wi-Fi, GPS, Bluetooth, it’s all there for the taking. HTC Touch Diamond or BlackBerry Storm? What shall it be?

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The Storm is not the only hot thing happening at Verizon. The largest U.S. carrier, counting Alltel subscribers too, has big plans for the following period. During 11/16/08 through 1/31/09 we’re going to see lots of Verizon handsets at discount prices.

LG VX8360 (clamshell with EV-DO, 1.3MP camera, stereo Bluetooth, microSD)

LG XV9600 (basically a Dare with a detachable QWERTY keyboard and a game-pad)

Nokia 2605 Mirage (small clamshell with 1xRTT, VGA Camera, and Bluetooth)

Nokia 7205 Intrigue (small clamshell with 1x/EV-DO, 2MP Camera, Bluetooth)

Samsung Renown (clamshell with CDMA and Quad-band GSM, similar to the Gleam)

Samsung Saga i770

Samsung Omnia

HTC Touch Pro/XV6850

USB760 (super small USB EV-DO Rev A “micro” Modem)

Compass 597 (USB modem with aGPS)

CDM8950/CDM8975 (unknown?)

Depending on what handset you choose you will save from $50 to $70 but you will probably have to sign a new contract. What do you think? Would you get any of these handsets or will you go for the Storm instead?

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Alltel subscribers watch out! There’s a new phone in town. The LG Swift is a new flip phone filled with multimedia features and applications on the go. The phone is available in Alltel retail stores and online and it will cost $49.99 after a $50 mail-in-rebate with a two-year agreement.

The Swift has a new keypad featuring Fastap Press-to-Experience keys which will give you six raised one-touch access Quick Keys with a traditional numeric keypad. The phone is also customized to be used with Alltel Navigation, Alltel Shop, Email, Alarm Clock and Image Library.

Alltel Wireless’ vice president of device strategy Brian Ullem says:

The LG Swift is an innovative phone that helps our customers explore and enjoy Alltel’s most popular data features. The introduction of Fastap Press-to-Experience keys enables us to delivers information and entertainment to our customers faster than ever before.

The Swift has a dual speaker system with stereo sound, Bluetooth, a 1.3 MP camera with multi-shot and video capabilities, one-touch speakerphone and support for memory upgrade. What do you think?

via Press

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Samsung is ready to launch various phones in the near future. The phone maker will work with most U.S. carriers. Here’s what’s Samsungs has planed:

• T-Mobile: Behold T919
• AT&T: SGH-A777 and Eternity A867
• Alltel: SCH-R600 Hue II
• Verizon Wireless: Saga I770, OMNIA I910 and Renown U810.

Like anything you see here? Which one would you pick out? All we need know are some arrival dates and prices.

via phonearena

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Verizon announced its intention to purchase Alltel this summer and now they finally can. The Department of Justice has approved the transaction last week and the FCC has just approved it too. Verizon will pay $5.9 billion and it will assume Alltel’s debt of $22.2 billion. That’s a $28.1 billion deal, but who’s counting?

Besides the money, Verizon will comply with all the requests of the FCC. Verizon will have to maintain any roaming agreements between Alltel and other carriers for at least four years. And that’s about all that the FCC asked for.

The merger will transform Verizon into the number one carrier in the USA. Verizon will total 83.8 million subscribers, including the 13 million Alltel subscribers and thus it will surpass AT&T which currently has 74.8 million subscribers.

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The Department of Justice has just approved Verizon’s purchase of Alltel. That makes Verizon only the largest carrier in the USA right now, leaving AT&T behind. In order for Verizon to be allowed to keep Alltel, the company will have to divest itself from 100 local markets in 22 states to keep things competitively correct.

Following the Department of Justice is the FCC who has to give it’s ok on the purchase. We’ll keep you updated next week. November 4 is the day Verizon will be waiting for.

via Engadget

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Alltel is ready to launch a touchscreen phone. It’s the Samsung Delve or the r800. It has that Omnia or Instinct-like design but it’s a totally new and original phone. It has EV-DO 3G support, stereo Bluetooth, Samsung’s TouchWiz interface, a microSD card slot, a 2-megapixel camera, a 3.5mm headset jack. There’s a virtual QWERTY keyboard, a 500-contact phone book and a full HTML browser to play with.

The touchscreen phone will be available on November 6th for $199 with a service contract and after $100 mail-in rebate.

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Alltel announced today that customers with video-capable phones will be able to access Univision Movil’s video shows, as well as GoTV’s ES Musica music channel.

Univision Movil’s is the leading Spanish-language media company in the USA and now it’s ready to arrive at Alltel Wireless. There are plenty of shows available to watch on your mobile if you’re going to try the program. ES Musica is going to bring you lots of music and videos, including behind-the-scenes coverage.

Is this what you were looking for? Check it out and tell us how it is!

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Alltel has a new LG phone for its customers. The LG Rhythm is a music phone which comes with Digital Signal Processing, a graphic equalizer, an internal FM transmiter and a 3.5 mm stereo headset and a microphone that can toggle from music to calls and back. There’s also an LG mechanical wheel with a center touchscreen, and a dedicated music hot key. The Rhythm comes with a 2 inch QVGA display, a 1.3 megapixel camera with zoom and camcorder, Bluetooth 2.0 capabilities and microSD support for up to 16 GB.

The Rhythm will cost $119.99 after a $50 mail-in-rebate, with a two year contract. Intersted? Go to Alltel starting today!

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Apple shares took a 17% tumble today. Everybody else who’s anybody saw their shares dropping valuable points today. No matter what business we are talking about, its shares took a smaller or bigger plunge following the Nasdaq and Dow Jones.

The $700 billion emergency bailout failed to pass the House today creating one of the worst trading days in Wall Street ever since 9/11. The Dow Jones lost 800 points which is its personal worst ever. (more…)

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If beating dead horses was a competition, Motorola will surely emerge as the runaway winner. Alltell has picked up yet another RAZR variant called the MOTORAZR VE20 which recently passed through the FCC. This clamshell has a 2-megapixel camera with video recording, GPS, a memory slot, and a 3.5mm jack for easy listening to music with any headphones you care to use. The upper part of the flipper has an external display and touch-sensitive buttons providing easy access to recent calls, music, and messages. Alltell has thrown in many of its network-oriented applications including Alltell Search, Aricent Celltop, Alltell Navigation, and City ID. Touted to be the lightest ever RAZR at only 3.17 oz, the VE20 is capable of providing 250 minutes of talktime and 360 hours of standby time.

The MOTORAZR can be preordered starting today at Alltell’s website for $99.99 after a 50 mail-in rebate with retail availability from September 25th.
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If you own an iPhone you must already be aware of the fact that the new firmware 2.1 is going to be ready by Friday. Steve said the software will bring you fewer call drops, a better battery life and an increased speed for iTunes backup. We are also waiting for push support for third party applications and better GPS.
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Alltel Wireless has something new for all photographers out there. As long as you have a camera phone from Alltel, you will be happy to enjoy the new MyShow service. Alltel launched MyShow which is the first user-generated mobile slideshow applications. Is MyShow a Flickr-like app? Most likely it is, but let’s see how we can use it and how much it costs.

MyShow will turn into slideshows your selected pictures. You can add music and personalized text to go along with all those pictures. You can set up MyShow widgets to show your slideshows anywhere on the internet. It’s the perfect application to share your content with your far away friends or family. The service doesn’t come free, but it doesn’t cost that much. MyShow comes for $3.99/month form their Alltel Shop.

MyShow comes to complete Alltel’s photo-oriented products. Alltel already offers Alltel Pic Transfer, which uploads photos from the phone to a PC or social media site; Kodak Mobile Link, which lets you check out personal photos stored online in your Kodak Gallery and Fujifilm Mobile Postcards which lets you send a personal photo greeting through US mail to anyone you want.

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So did you get that unlimited plan from Virgin Mobile? You know, the one we were talking about last week? I’ll take your silence as a No! Good! You can sign up with Alltel and get one of their My Circle plans. Basically you can chose 5, 10 or 20 numbers to talk all you want. That’s unlimited calling with any number from any other American network.
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I thought that Alltel are simply going to wait to get acquired by Verizon Wireless. But they sure aren’t. We’ve just learned a couple of days ago that they are going to expand their EVDO Rev A. network coverage and today we hear their going to offer WiFi service to all those interested.
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Alltel isn’t happy with their current Rev. A network and they have just announced they will be upgrade it in the following months. 18 new markets will be added to their current count in the next 6 months. We’ve seen how AT&T went all full HSPA in all their markets so Alltel’s efforts to expand their high speed network come right in time.
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Verizon Wireless is doing everything to grow more and more while it’s aiming for being the number 1 cell phone carrier in the USA. They have recently bought Alltel out in a $28 billion deal and they will not stop there.

In the upcoming months they will roll out new handsets while upgrading network services where needed. Some of the most expected handsets are the Samsung i770 coming this fall and the Palm Treo 800w expected to be released around the same period. There are various other cell phones which will either be released with Verizon Wireless plans either be upgraded to Windows Mobile 6.1.
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A little birdie up in the sky called the CNBC reports that Verizon is in “in deep in talks to acquire Alltel“. How deep the talks I wouldn’t be able to say, but Alltel is ranked as the 5th American carrier so there’s no surprise Verizon is insisting on this purchase.

There’s no official comments yet which might indicate exactly that deepness of their talks. If this goes through, Verizon Wireless will have to wire no less than $27 billion to Alltel.

via EngadgetVe

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Do you have a gazillion of picture stuck in your cell phone? I know I used to. The CD software which came with my cell phone wouldn’t run on my computer, so the result was that I got a stack of pictures which I can’t transfer at all unless I did through Bluetooth or infrared. Even then it required a bit of my time. Alltel Wireless’s new service called the “PhotoCopter” eliminates the need to worry about image transfer from the cell phone. You simply take pictures and that’s it.

The service was launched in cooperation with Ontela, owner of Photobucket.com. Basically, this Alltel feature is as straightforward as it can get. You take a picture and it appears on the My Pictures folder of your computer. However, you can also choose to upload it to Photobucket, Blogger, Snapfish, and Flickr. For now, the service is limited to Alltel customers using Motorola V3m, V3a, V9m and ROKR handsets for US$2.99 per month.

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