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Alltel just announced the launch of its location based service, WHERE. The location based finder application helps Alltel customers find all the “detailed and customized information” their hearts could desire, “including maps and directions for thousands of locations, directly to Alltel phones.” Subscribers can expect to find “gas stations, shops, restaurants, hotels, parks, golf courses, ATMs, hospitals and schools,” as well as “up-to-date information on local events and allows customers to customize the application by providing local weather, news, traffic conditions, directions, ski reports and more.”
The WHERE software can be downloaded from Alltel’s Axcess Shop for$2.99 a month. The new location based service will launch on five phones for now.
Way to go, Alltel. This is just the type of service that consumers are looking for (at least it’s the kind we are looking for). The $2.99 price point is just right for this type of service. Although, if it sucks as much as other location based services, $2.99 is about $2.98 too much.
[Via: Yahoo]
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Will hails from The City of Angels - Los Angeles, California. He spends his time playing with his numerous gadgets and looking forward to seeing what future holds for mobile technology. An avid promoter of a fully "digital" life, he promotes the widespread adoption of truly mobile, paper-less living. He dreams of the day when he can go completely digital. No more snail mail, paper receipts, bound books, notepads/spiral notebooks, credit cards, hard currency. He's a digital warrior - fighting for the converged life. He is an idealist and a realist - he has a perfect view of what the world should be but knows that the world is not perfect. Can we ever hope to see Will's dream become reality? We'll see...
