Alltel HTC Hero

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Don't know if anyone has drawn attention to this (my searches of the forum yielded no results), but Alltel very quietly added the HTC Hero to their lineup of phones -- the first new handset they've offered since November, I believe. It's shipping with 2.1.

Has anyone picked one up?

-Philip

Didn't alltell merge with verizon a long time ago?

Yeah I got an Alltel hero yesterday, and yeah Verizon and alltel merged but in my area, Carlsbad NM, our Alltel was bought by at&t . So they're upgrading to cdma and gsm towers

Re: Alltel HTC Hero

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The merger with AT&T was supposed to be complete in December, but there hasn't really been much news. I was told there would be no new handsets past December, and the release of a legitimate Android leads me to believe the merger isn't close to final at all.

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Originally Posted by audiophyl

The merger with AT&T was supposed to be complete in December, but there hasn't really been much news. I was told there would be no new handsets past December, and the release of a legitimate Android leads me to believe the merger isn't close to final at all.

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ATN bought AT&T's share and Alltel is Alltel again

Originally Posted by jake044

ATN bought AT&T's share and Alltel is Alltel again

Not at all true, I work for Alltel and the story so far goes that Verizon had 105 divested markets from Alltel that it had to sell. They sold 79 of them to AT&T and the remaining 26 markets were sold to Atlantic Tele-Network. Only these 26 markets will remain Alltel the other 79 will be converted to AT&T.

Originally Posted by morbiddog2

Not at all true, I work for Alltel and the story so far goes that Verizon had 105 divested markets from Alltel that it had to sell. They sold 79 of them to AT&T and the remaining 26 markets were sold to Atlantic Tele-Network. Only these 26 markets will remain Alltel the other 79 will be converted to AT&T.

oh ok. so us people in the AT&T markets will have to buy an AT&T phone when everythings complete?

Ive seen one in the wild and had a hands on... any thoughts on root?

Originally Posted by junkdruggler

Ive seen one in the wild and had a hands on... any thoughts on root?

Could try our exploit, but I doubt it would work.
Other than that they could try a goldCard, but it seems HTC has gotten rid of those.

Sadly the Sprint rooting trick does not work on the Alltel CDMA phones, I wish I knew how to even start trying to help at finding a workable solution to this.

-- Mia