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The new Motorola Hint vertical slider handset will be available at Alltel Wireless starting on November 28th. The Hint has a large 2.5 inch display with a full QWERTY keyboard and dedicated keys for the 2 megapixel camera, built-in MP3 player, and Web access. Other features of the Hint include:

• 320 x 240 resolution display
• Measures 3.23 x 2.43 x 0.67 inches
• 128MB RAM and 256 MB ROM
• 2 megapixel camera
• Supports MP3, MPEG-4
• Email, SMS, Voicemail, Voice record
• Stereo Bluetooth
• GPS enabled
• 3.5 mm headset jack
• Speakerphone
• Advanced speech recognition

The Motorola Hint will be available for $99.99 after a $50 dollar mail-in rebate and a new two year service agreement.

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Motorola announced its first QWERTY slider phone, Hint QA30. The oddly designed phone is aimed at socialists giving them the convenience of thread messaging and runs on CDMA 1x EVDO network. It has a 2.5-inch screen, up to 8GB expandable memory, Bluetooth 2.0, GPS, 2 megapixel camera, 3.5mm audio jack, dedicated music controls and speakerphone.

The phone will come on Alltel in December.

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Alltel has joined the ranks of Sprint and AT&T and have added the HTC Touch Pro to its smartphone lineup.  The Touch Pro will set you back $379.99, however there is a $100 mail-in-rebate available, which assuming you get that back, will bring your final cost down to $279.99.  In addition, in order to get that pricing you will also need to sign a 2-year agreement.

As for the specs, the Touch Pro is running Windows Mobile 6.1 Professional with a customized version of the TouchFLO 3D user interface.  Otherwise, the handset has a 2.8-inch VGA touchscreen display, GPS, Wi-Fi, a 3.2-megapixel camera with autofocus and flash, stereo Bluetooth and a slide-out QWERTY keyboard.

The HTC Touch Pro can be purchased directly from the Alltel website, as well as in-store.

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Samsung Delve, the full-touch handset rumored to debut soon via U.S. Cellular, was officially announced today by Alltel, one of U.S. Cellular’s main competitors.   

The Delve is among those TouchWiz handsets that Samsung said, earlier this month, to be ready for the US market. Many will probably compare Alltel’s new handset with Sprint’s Samsung Instinct, since they have a similar design and also similar features.   

The new Samsung will come with one of Alltel’s latest applications: nuTsie. This is a music app that allows users to get music from an extensive nuTsie catalog, as well as to stream iTunes playlists.

Apart from the customizable and widget-friendly TouchWiz UI, the main specs and features of Samsung Delve include:

• 3-inch TFT touchscreen display with 240 x 400 pixels
• 1x EVDO connectivity
• GPS, Alltel Navigation
• Virtual QWERTY keyboard
• 3.5mm headset jack
• MP3 player
• Bluetooth
• Full HTML browser
• Email
• 8GB of “external memory” – hence there’s a MicroSDHC card included
• 2 MP camera, video recording  
• Talk time: up to 330 minutes
• Stand by time: up to 205 hours
• 3.89 x 1.93 x 0.55 inches
• 3.35 ounces

Samsung Delve is priced at $199, with a 2-yr contract agreement and after a $100 mail-in rebate. For the moment, the Delve can only be pre-ordered, via Alltel’s website. The handset will go on sale starting November 6, both online and in retail stores.

Source: Samsung Mobile

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