CG Holiday 2007 Recommendation: Helio’s Ocean
- December 4th, 2007
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I love, love, love my Helio Ocean. Peter has one as well, and he’s just as nuts for his. I’ve said before “screw the iPhone”, and I mean it: it’s not there yet. But the Ocean is. It has all the phone features of the iPhone, but does them all better. Google maps, just like the iPhone, but with GPS. Do you know how handy that is? A great weather app via Accuweather, a decent built-in Web browser, and a few things the iPhone doesn’t have, like an Office doc reader and Exchange sync.
YouTube is represented, and a neat tool you won’t find on the iPhone: a built-in MySpace app. Not for everyone, but for most of you. Oh, and the 2-Megapixel camera on the Ocean has a flash and takes video, with direct uploads to Flickr or YouTube. That is awesome.
Besides what’s inside, the Ocean’s design is great. A responsive dual-sliding mechanism that gives you T9 for dialing and QWERTY for text and email and everything else. What’s more, the unlimited pretty-much-everything plans are highly competitive, with the $99 plan featuring unlimited minutes.
So there you have it, readers: as a guy who could have any cellphone from any provider in the USA, my piece is the Ocean from Helio, and I’ve never thought twice about it.
matt - you can’t sync it up with a computer can you? no calendar appts either?
@ bobcat: yah, it’ll sync with a PC (no Mac support (yet)), and it’s got a nice calendar, notepad, alarm clock, tons of stuff. Voice memos, unit converter, great MP3 player, microSD, it keeps going and going.
Man I love this phone. Wish i could get one. Darn AT&T contract. I like the roundness of the Ocean as compared to the sharper edged style of the Pantech.
Don’t worry I will ;)
The things that are moving me from wanting an ocean over the iphone: unlimited texts in the same priced plan, faster internet, & gps.
I will admit I wish I had the iphone because it would sync with my mac, and because it’s smaller & more “stylish”.
But I feel like I’ll get more use out of the ocean. I’ll wait and see in January.
You can sync up your contacts with Helio using your MyHelio account. You can check out the demo at http://www.heliomembers.com for step by step instructions on it.