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?

via cnet

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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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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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Alltel is the next carrier in the U.S. to launch an HTC device this year. The HTC Touch Pro is their chosen device and it’s said it will be coming in the near future. We’d like to know what a near future looks like. What are the prices for an Alltel HTC Touch Pro?

The leaked photo above is the only proof which supports such a launch as there’s no official announcement for Alltel. Or Verizon for that matter.

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Verizon Wireless might not be your favorite carrier but it sure is the best when it comes to customer support. J.D. Power and Associates have finished their latest Wireless Customer Care Performance Study and they say Verizon Wireless is top of the class with Alltel, T-Mobile and AT&T left behind.

The most important thing in Verizon’s way of dealing with issues is its ability to solve a problem in a single call. Hold times are higher 34% since 2003 but people seem to be willing to wait more if a solution is right around the corner. The study was based on responses from about 11,000 people.

What say you? How is your carrier’s customer care department doing?

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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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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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The BlackBerry Curve 8330 will be available in Alltel retail stores on May 1. Starting today, the Curve is available online for pre-order at shopalltel.com/curve.

This sleek, titanium-colored smartphone, will keep customers connected to the people and information that matter most, as well as provide them with added flexibility and freedom to manage their busy schedules.

“Customers have asked for a phone that provides functionality and helps them maintain their efficiency and connectivity whether on the road or at home,” said Brian Ullem, vice president of device strategy at Alltel Wireless. “The BlackBerry Curve 8330 fits these needs and gives both our professional and personal customers a broad multi-media experience that complements their active lives.”

The BlackBerry Curve will be available for $229.99 after a $100.00 mail in rebate. This discounted price is available to new customers who sign up for a two-year service agreement and to existing eligible customers on qualifying rate plans. Customers can select one of the Alltel Wireless Smart Choice packs that include national voice minutes, unlimited internet and email, and “My Circle.” Smart Choice Packs begin at $69.99.

For more information about the BlackBerry Curve 8330, please visit www.blackberrycurve.com.

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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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A new mobile-web centric phone has been unveiled by LG in its native Korea market — the LG-LH2300 Touch Web Phone. The LG-LH2300 features a 3-inch wide touchscreen LCD with WVGA resolution. Of course, as the phone is web-centric, you can enjoy full internet-browsing capabilities featuring a jog wheel, an Internet hot key, and a Quick Search icon. The LG-LH2300 Touch Web Phone also features a 3-megapixel camera with auto-focus, microSD memory card slot, Bluetooth 2.0 connectivity, and TDMB. It will sell in Korea for around US$600 to $700 in early April.

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Last January, Alltel advertised the availability of three new cell phones in its line up by the time Q1 ‘08 ends. Among the three phones is the Samsung Muse which, despite its name, is actually quite ordinary. The Samsung Muse is a classic clamshell music phone with a dedicated music control, a 2-megapixel camera, microSD slot, Bluetooth connectivity, GPS, and get this — high-speed EVDO connection. It only costs US$90, so despite it being ordinary, it’s actually not too bad.

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