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Helio Ocean Announced

Jayvee Fernandez — Thu, 29 Mar 2007 08:40:10 +0000

The Helio Ocean is an impressive device. It looks like one of those XDA Windows Mobile devices with the ends smoothened off. Or a bar of soap.

The Helio may have some problems with the keypad though. With the area that folds out being small, there may be some issues with you pressing too many keys at once. The Helio comes with a dual sliding keypad – one for the QWERTY keyboard and the other for the numerical keypad.

The Helio Ocean also comes with 200MB of data and 15 hours of battery life. EVDO, GPS navigation and Google Maps are a few of the other perks the Ocean has. For more pictures, you can proceed here.

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Helio Kickflip

Jayvee Fernandez — Thu, 29 Jun 2006 17:56:17 +0000

Kick it with your thumb and the other half of the phone flips out. CNET recently reviewed the Helio Kickflip phone, packed with high end features to make you kick the air and do a back flip.

The Kickflip is a phone of extremes – you got your EVDO conection but no IM application. You got your 2MP camera but no Bluetooth? Helio sure knows how to take a product and break it.

The bottomline according to CNET:
The attractive Helio Kickflip offers high-end features, such as a 2-megapixel camera and EV-DO support, and is the better phone of the carrier’s two offerings. Unfortunately, it’s plagued by the lack of Bluetooth and instant-messaging options; plus, the call quality is subpar.

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Hello Helio

Jayvee Fernandez — Wed, 03 May 2006 02:10:26 +0000

Helio has hit the US, bringing with it a lot of Asian technology like unlimited high speed streaming of multimedia and a bunch of other neat things like, OMG, MySpace. Helio isn’t just a content provider – it’s also the supplier of the Helio Hero ($275) and Kickflip ($250) units so once you buy into Helio, you really do buy into a new mobile lifestyle.

The services seem quite limited though – the introduction of RSS feeds but not being able to add your own sounds a bit off.

But for video and music junkies – well the Helio captures that niche pretty well because of the fixed fees, meaning you don’t have to get shocked at the end of the month when your bill comes.

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You can check out the interview with Helio’s CEO here.

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