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,…
Alltel to offer Voice-to-Text voicemail service – SpinVox
One of the biggest hassles with voicemail is that you have to actually check each one and listen to every single one, even if you don’t want to – this wastes precious wireless minutes and even more previous patience. Of course, if you have an iPhone, the Visual Voicemail feature helps mitigate this annoyance. For…
Huawei EC360 wireless broadband card brings Alltel’s high-speed EVDO to notebooks
Chinese manufacturers aren’t just bringing the mobile phone goods to US shores anymore. With Huawei’s launch of their new EC360 data card, on Alltel’s network, the Chinese contingent is officially in US wireless network data-game. The Huawei EC360 serves up 2.4Mbps of downstream data through Alltel’s EVDO network and is offered for free after rebates…
MOTORAZR 2 debuts with U.S. carriers
Virtually all major carriers in the States — Alltel, AT&T, Sprint, T-Mobile USA, US Cellular, and Verizon Wireless — have already added or are about to add MOTORAZR 2 to their offerings. In order to make sure its flagship device works on all carriers, American handset maker prepared RAZR2 versions for all networks — V9…
Alltel to offer content from MTV Network
So, it’s not just Verizon who is teaming-up with MTV. Alltel also wants a piece of the action, and they’ve announced a deal with the popular network for youth to include mobile video, wap content, games and personalization features from MTV. According to the deal, Alltel customers will soon be able to download video clips…
LG Wave brings A-GPS to Alltel – mid-range phone with assisted GPS
Low- and mid-range handsets are the bread and butter of a wireless carrier’s business, so it’s great to see mainstream phones getting trick features like A-GPS (Assisted Global Positioning Service). Alltel has picked up the LG AX380 as the LG Wave to pull double duty as a GPS phone and music phone. The A-GPS phone…
Alltel launches mywaves mobile video service
Alltel decided to jump-in to the mobile video bandwagon with the introduction of mywaves – a mobile video service that allows customers to browse thousands of “web videos” and watch them from their mobile phone. If you’re willing to add $3.99 on top of your monthly bill, you’ll be able to access both professional programming…
Alltel launches Alltel Hue by Samsung
Good news for Alltel customers who need the new music phone. The carrier just launched the stylish mid-range clamshell Alltel Hue by Samsung, which brings such features as two screens (internal and external), music player, 1.3 MP camera and Bluetooth. Best of all, Samsung’s stylish music-phone supports interchangeable faceplates, giving you an ability to refresh…
Alltel to add Samsung R200, R500 to its offering
Alltel is about to boost its already solid low and mid range offering with two additional Samsung device, SCH-R200 and SCH-R500. The first one, R200 is an entry level candybar, sporting the similar slim body as the popular Samsung Wafer (already available on Alltel). However, unlike Wafer the R200 has less features, and is therefore…
Alltell brings GoTV’s Hip Hop Official, Altitude music channels to its customers
Mobile TV provider GoTV and Alltell Wireless teamed up to release two music channels, Hip Hop Official and Altitude, to the carrier’s customers. While Hip Hop Official covers the world of hip-hop, Altitude is focused on rock, indie, and new music — meaning most of the younger crowd should find something of interest to them.…