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Alltel subscribers watch out! There’s a new phone in town. The LG Swift is a new flip phone filled with multimedia features and applications on the go. The phone is available in Alltel retail stores and online and it will cost $49.99 after a $50 mail-in-rebate with a two-year agreement.

The Swift has a new keypad featuring Fastap Press-to-Experience keys which will give you six raised one-touch access Quick Keys with a traditional numeric keypad. The phone is also customized to be used with Alltel Navigation, Alltel Shop, Email, Alarm Clock and Image Library.

Alltel Wireless’ vice president of device strategy Brian Ullem says:

The LG Swift is an innovative phone that helps our customers explore and enjoy Alltel’s most popular data features. The introduction of Fastap Press-to-Experience keys enables us to delivers information and entertainment to our customers faster than ever before.

The Swift has a dual speaker system with stereo sound, Bluetooth, a 1.3 MP camera with multi-shot and video capabilities, one-touch speakerphone and support for memory upgrade. What do you think?

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Nokia Wahoo is a totally different Nokia device. It’s no candybar and no slider but it’s a flip phone with a half QWERTY keyboard. The handset will get you quad-band GSM/GPRS/EDGE, Dual-band UMTS/HSDPA, a 2.0 megapixel camera with flahs, Bluetooth 2.0 with A2DP and two displays. A 2.2 inch internal screen with a 240×320 resolution, a 1.36 inch external screen with a 128 x 160 resolution.

There’s no release date yet but people say the Wahoo is coming from AT&T. Need a price for this Nokia people!

The Nokia E63 has just been announced by Nokia. Deja-vu feeling coming yet? Yes sure it’s similar in design to the E71 but it’s something totally new.

If you don’t want a BlackBerry to play with but you’d like that BlackBerry feeling, then you absolutely need an E series smartphone. The E63 sports the same full QWERTY keyboard which provides that full support for your SMS and email needs. The E63 will be available soon and it will cost just 199 Euro before future subsidies and of course, taxes.

Soren Petersen, Senior Vice President of Nokia says:

Our research shows that people want a device that deals with both their personal and professional lives, but helps them to separate the two. When someone sits down at lunch, they want to update their social network or browse their personal email account and they don’t want work getting in the way of that. It’s another great case of technology adapting to the people that use it. The Nokia E63 is a new proposition for Eseries - a messaging device where people will be just as involved in their social network as they are in their business network.

Let’s look at the specs now. There’s WiFi support, fast access to Mail for Exchange, support for Files on Ovi and access to 1GB of online file storage for free. Nokia Music Store comes also with the E63 and there’s a 3.5 mm audio jack for your musical pleasure. The built-in camera will get you lots of photos and videos to share with your friends.

Want more? More specs and a release date? Well stick with us ’cause we do to, and we will surely find out more!

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The Samsung U440 or the Cleo has just arrived at the FCC. That means the phone will arrive in the USA besides Canada. The Cleo will arrive from Verizon Wireless in the near future, as soon as the FCC will approve it. And a quick reminder, the Cleo will bring you a QWERTY keyboard, a 1.3 megapixel camera, A2DP stereo Bluetooth and up to 8GB of storage space. Want it?

On the past week we mentioned a few Samsung phones would be launched on the US, and one of them is the Samsung a777 which is currently available at AT&T.

The low-entry slider cellphone comes with a colorful 262k screen and a resolution of 176×220 pixels. It features 3G, AT&T Navigator, and AT&T Music. It can playback MP3 files, and take photos + record videos thanks to the 1.3-megapixel camera with 3x zoom.

The Samsung a777 costs $80 after rebates, and includes 50MB of internal memory storage, which can be increased by using a microSD memory card.

Samsung a777 at AT&T

We have already mentioned the O2 Xda handset line a few times, one when Ignito was spotted online, and the other when Denim was approved by FCC. But the good news is that the cellphone will finally become available for purchase next Monday, on November 17.

Built by Asus and promoted by O2 from the UK, the mobile phone will be offered on a Pay&Go prepaid plan and will cost £250 which is approximately $390. It makes use of Windows Mobile 6.1 as the OS, and comes with WiFi and HSDPA.

Additional features include a multimedia player, a 3-megapixel camera, and a 2.8-inch display screen.

The LG Chocolate GiG is available now. It’s a juicy new flip phone and comes with a 2 megapixel camera, a 2.2 inch QVGA main display, stereo Bluetooth support and a micro SD slot for up to 8GB memory upgrades. It weighs just 98 grams, which makes it a hack of a light phone.

Plus Telus has been playing with it for some time now and the result is the customers’ possibility to access Telus Mobile Radio as well as Telus mobile music. This should keep you updated on all the musical news in town!

All this can be yours for only $99.99 with a three-year contract, $199.99 with a 2-year agreement, $249.99 with a 1-year agreement or $299.99 unlocked.

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The Samsung T919 Behold and the Samsung Gravity have been officially launched by T-Mobile.

The Behold is a touchscreen device which will get you that TouchWiz experience with haptic feedback, 3G support, full HTML web browser and a 5-megapixel camera with video support. The phone will be available starting with November 10 and it will cost $149.99 with a contract.

The Gravity is a candybar phone with a secret function. It’s a QWERTY slide-out keyboard. That’s about the greatest feature of it. The phone costs $49.99 with a two-year plan and it’s going to be available a week later, starting with November 17.

Sony has recently released the Sony Ericsson W705 which features a few cool innovative features. The basic specs are none too special, featuring a 320×240 TFT display, 120MB of onboard storage with Memory Stick Micro support, along with WiFi and 3G capabilites and bundled headphones.

Here’s where it gets cool, the W705 incorporates what Sony is calling “Shake control” which lets you adjust the volume, and skip and scan through songs just by making different gestures with the phone. Another cool feature is SensMe, a play list creator that allows the W705 to predict your mood and compile a playlist based on it’s predictions..

You can head to the phone’s official page to get more information on the above discussed features.

Sony Ericsson W705 Quick Specs:

Screen
- 320×240 pixels
- 262.144 color TFT
Memory
- Memory Stick Micro™ (M2™) support
- Phone memory 120MB*

* Actual free memory may vary due to phone pre-configuration.
Networks
- GSM 850
- GSM 900
- GSM 1800
- GSM 1900
- EDGE
- UMTS 900
- UMTS 2100
- HSPA
Available colours
- Luxury Silver - Passionate Red

Possible limited market availability.
Sizes
- 95.0 x 48.0 x 14.3 mm
- 3.7 x 1.9 x 0.6 inches
Weight
- 98.0 gr
- 3.5 oz

Please note that local variations may apply.

We were wondering what the price for the Storm is going to be, especially after we’ve seen those super cheap Storms Vodafone is going to offer. Thanks to Verizon’s Wireless scavenger hunt which is going to take place in New York soon we can tell you that the Verizon Wireless BlackBerry Storm Price is $499. That’s what the ARV is, at least according to the terms and conditions page:

Prizes: Daily Grand Prizes (50): A BlackBerry “Storm” 9500 Smartphone and a $50 Verizon Wireless gift card Approximate Retail Value (”ARV”): $549 each

So if $499 is the full price it means Verizon might just offer the same good prices Vodafone does.

via RIMarkable