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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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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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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If you were in the Phoenix area, you might have had a chance to enjoy Goo Goo Dolls in a free concert at the Scottsdale Civic Center Plaza in Scottsdale, Ariz. on Saturday, December 8, 2007 - courtesy of Alltel Wireless. This was Alltel’s way of thanking Phoenix customers for its growth in the region.

Anyway, if you missed the event like most of us (well, actually all of us) over here at the Whack, feel free to check out photos from the event in the extended entry.

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