Alltel Wireless today launched the HTC Touch, a Windows Mobile 6.0 smartphone.

The compact and stylish HTC Touch provides customers with a new way to stay connected and access music, photos, information, games and more.  This sophisticated smartphone is easy to operate by using a finger to simply swipe or tap the innovative touch-screen “cube” interface. 

Alltel’s HTC Touch features four panels on the “cube,” including an Alltel-exclusive panel that provides customers with quick access to the latest smartphone applications to personalize their phones and help do more on the go. Customers can also customize the phone with ringtones, themes and games, in addition to pre-programmed links to shopping applications.  

The additional panels provide easy access to contacts, including the ability to assign photos to each name; allow users to launch their applications at the touch of a button; and launch the HTC Touch’s multimedia functions, such as the music player, photos and video, with a tap of the finger.

• Tracking enables supervisors to request field workers' locations, track movement and set up “smart fences” to determine employee location
• Team Clock-in and Out – Allows a supervisor to clock-in and clock-out employees as well as capture individual task information on a single wireless device
• Real-time job tracking – Sends real-time job information from field workers to employers, complete with tasks, subtasks and editable fields
• Customized reports – Supplies electronic reports with payroll, job costing and productivity information
• Web log-in – Provides real-time access to field workers' positions, timesheet and job information via the Internet

With three number one hits and 14 consecutive top 10s, The Goo Goo Dolls are one of the most successful bands of the past twenty years. Now Alltel Wireless is bringing the Grammy-nominated band to the Valley for a free concert to thank the community for their support and to celebrate Alltel’s tremendous year of growth in the region. Area residents are invited to attend the show on Saturday, December 8, at 5:30 p.m. at the Scottsdale Civic Center Plaza .

In addition to The Goo Goo Dolls concert, Alltel Wireless is also offering Valley residents the new MOTOROKR Z6m for only $79.99, plus 50 free songs with the purchase of an accessory kit of $29.99 while supplies last. The phone offer is available to new customers who sign a two-year service agreement and to eligible existing customers on qualifying rate plans through January 12, 2008.

Gates open at 4:00 p.m., and Alltel is recommending fans arrive early, as the venue has a capacity of 2,000 for this special event. 

• Built-in GPS and mapping applications
• 2 MP camera with flash, zoom and video capture
• Advanced media player, 3.5mm jack, Bluetooth® stereo support and dedicated volume controls
• 64 MB of built-in memory and expandable microSD/SDHC memory card slot
• Speaker Independent Voice Recognition for Voice Activated Dialing
• Enhanced SureType® keyboard technology with new word completion capability and built-in spell-checker
• Multi-directional trackball for easy navigation.

Alltel Wireless today announced the launch of Axcess Family Finder, a service that enables parents to determine the location of their child's Axcess Family Finder-capable phone from the Web or their mobile phone.

Axcess Family Finder features easy-to-use interactive maps to monitor or guide family members to specific locations. The service also allows parents to identify specific areas that their children frequent, including movie theaters and parks, by using the Axcess Family Finder Web site, www.alltel.com/familyfinder.

The Axcess Family Finder Web site also supports added security measures with Scheduled Checks which allows parents to register specific locations to be tracked during certain times. 

GPS technology is used to locate the child’s phone, and the parents’ phones can receive a text message automatically notifying them of the child’s location. 

While more and more children use wireless phones to communicate with parents and each other, parents are growing concerned regarding the potentially harmful web content available on mobile phones.  (Last September AT&T announced thier Parental Control Service.)

To assist parents in controlling their child’s mobile internet usage, Alltel Wireless has teamed with Bytemobile, a mobile internet solutions for network operators, to announce Alltel Parental Controls, a content filtering application available free of charge beginning in February 2008.

Based on Bytemobile’s Unison ACCESS Mobile content filtering solution, Alltel Parental Controls utilizes a comprehensive database of websites that may be inappropriate for children, allowing parents to filter content on their child’s phone.

Potentially offensive sites that can be filtered through Alltel Parental Controls include those featuring pornography, gambling, weapons and violence. 

Alltel Wireless recently announced the Motorola MOTOROKRtm Z6m with an exclusive XM Radio Mobile cell. This stylish slider is the ultimate phone for music lovers, featuring an integrated MP3 player with up to 2GB of optional removable memory for the ability to store up to 1,000 songs, 3.5 mm headset jack, stereo Bluetooth connectivity and USB 2.0 high speed connectivity for fast file transfers. Additionally, the phone supports a wide-range of audio formats including MP3, AAC, AAC+ and WMA.

The MOTOROKR Z6m also features Alltel's exclusive award-winning Celltop technology, which offers customers an easier way to access, manage and organize a wide range of information already available on their phones.

The phone is pre-loaded with 10 cells including an exclusive XM Radio Mobile cell, delivering 20 channels of streaming XM Radio Mobile, with simple controls for navigating through channels, for only $7.99 per month. Customers can enjoy a free seven-day trial of XM Radio Mobile (airtime charges apply). In addition to Celltop, other features include:

Alltel Wireless today launched Alltel Wi-Fi, an easy-to-use solution powered by Boingo Wireless that instantly provides customers with laptop access to thousands of hotspots throughout North and South America. Alltel also provides wireless broadband access via Alltel Wireless Internet service, allowing customers to access the Internet from their laptop or smartphone at speeds of up to 2.4 Mbps on its nationwide data network.

Through Alltel’s relationship with Boingo, the world’s largest network of Wi-Fi hotspots, Alltel customers will be able to enjoy a fast connection all over the country. To provide customers with maximum coverage, Alltel is offering a Wi-Fi and EVDO Wireless Internet “bundle,” delivering unlimited Wi-Fi access from any supported hotspot starting as low as $9.99 per month, in addition to the customers’ Wireless Internet Plan. Pre-paid Wi-Fi cards are available at Alltel Wireless retail stores for $19.99 per week or $9.99 per day. Additionally, users can purchase Wi-Fi access at https://wifi.alltel.com.

The A4P application allows business professionals using BlackBerry and Windows Mobile smartphones to increase productivity by using their wireless device to record time spent on business phone calls, emails and other activity and automatically posting the entries to back-office accounting systems.

The A4P application provides professionals with the ability to efficiently manage their clients’ expectations by keeping track of expenses and time spent on projects. With the click of a button, A4P allows employees to instantaneously record operating costs on their wireless device, which decreases the time spent documenting receipts and reduces accounting errors.

• XM Radio Mobile - giving customers 20 of the best radio music channels right on the phone

The average football fan may never realize the dream of passing for a winning touchdown for their favorite team, but because of Alltel Wireless lucky fans across the country could become gridiron heroes in Alltel’s “My Circle 1st & 10” sweepstakes.

Fans of the 16 sponsored universities and pro football teams can enter to win a chance at football stardom by texting CIRCLE to 52191 or by logging onto www.alltelfootball.com beginning Sept. 12, 2007. 

One lucky fan from each sponsored team will be selected at random to take the field and attempt to complete a pass for an unprecedented grand prize.  If they complete the pass, the winner will earn $100,000 for his or her ‘circle’ of 10 friends to share as well as free Alltel Wireless service on America ’s largest network for the first 20,000 fans who redeem vouchers at an Alltel store.

Alltel Wireless today announced that myServiceForce.com’s FieldMasterPro is now available for small business customers using Windows Mobile 5.0 smartphones. The FieldMasterPro application offers a complete work order management solution for the field service industry that combines an Internet-based service and dispatch system with powerful wireless-based field technician work order completion services.  

FieldMasterPro assists companies in field service industries such as HVAC, plumbing, building maintenance and appliance repair.  This application is an inexpensive, turnkey software solution for management, field technicians and administration to remain in sync – improving overall productivity and efficiency enterprise-wide.

The easy-to-use software features the ability to eliminate field technicians’ paperwork and immediately invoice customers resulting in efficient billing and improved cash flow.  Furthermore, FieldMasterPro schedules customer service calls resulting in easy technician tracking and management.