Helio no longer works, they shut it down after May 25th which was the dealine for any Helio phones to be activated through Sprint before they shut it down. If you did not activate the Helio phone through Sprint before May 25th, it will no longer work at all. No service provider will carry it, the phone is pretty. Jan 05, 2017 I was just wondering if anyone knows whether or not VZW would allow me to use the Helio Ocean I. Helio Phone On Verizon Hey. In other words I could activate. Click to expand.$6 device protection program if lost (nothing like that on the iPhone!), $6 TV programming for Comedy Central, Adult Swim, VH1 content and more. Bluetooth Stereo headset at $95. Nice checkout options too. Expand to 2GB of SD memory for $45 or 1 GB for $30. $30 activation fee (compared to AT&T's $35. Shipped FedEx 2Day. CNET rates the device 8.3 out of 10 (the scored an 8.0), which is simply EXCELLENT! THE BIG QUESTION: HUH? I ask you iPhone enthusiasts and non-iPhone enthusiasts. Why hasn't this phone completely blown the iPhone out of the water, turning its media hype into a whirlwind of shame? Why isn't this phone just trampling the iPhone underfoot like a rampaging bull elephant? Is it just missing the 'Apple' logo? Helo quite cleverly referred to the iPhone everywhere as the AT&T iPhone (although that's sure not to fool many). At the end of the day. What's the deal here? CNET noted iPhone's negatives as: 'The Apple iPhone has variable call quality and lacks some basic features found in many cell phones, including stereo Bluetooth support and 3G compatibility. Integrated memory is stingy for an iPod, and you have to sync the iPhone to manage music content.' CNET noted the Helio Ocean's negatives as: 'The Helio Ocean is a bulky device with a poorly designed numeric keypad. Streaming video quality was not the best and photo quality was mediocre. It also has not yet implemented the Microsoft Exchange ActiveSync application that many mobile professionals would covet.' Where'd Helio even come from, you'd think. Why didn't Apple just do a deal wtih them? One analyst, Pam Duffey, a telecom analyst at Visiongain, at some point last year, thought that would be EXACTLY what would happen. March 2006, so, don't be to hard on her. Click to expand. I have an iPhone, so I'm biased on the face of it, but open minded and almost preternaturally addicted to looking at the opposite side of an opinion to see both sides. I've heard about the Helio Ocean for months and months, and kept comparing it to the iPhone and wondering. The let's go mobile website reveals some specs: WHAT SUCKS ABOUT THE HELIO OCEAN Reviewing Helio's website and looking around the net, we can start seeing the possibly serious downsides in my book: • MVNO if you want out early, you'll need to get another Helio phone that does even less. Uses Sprint for voice and Verizon for data, but can change these things and manage them as business needs see fit (the recent ). • Battery - With 3G, etc, etc. The talk time is only 5 hours vs iPhone's 8 hours. Start browsing the net, and who knows. • 240x320 screen, much smaller than the iPhone's 480x320 • NOT touchscreen, buttons all the way, baby! • Default 200MB, whoopee! That's like 40 songs or a 10 minute movie. NOTE: I heard that its supposedly 512MB (though the spec says otherwise), but in any case, I love how its ambiguous with many of these phones. • Maxes out at 2GB at a time, even though it features removeable memory • No WiFi, but unlimited 3G. That counts right? Who needs local networking? • Nice and thick, like 2 packs of cards glued together and busting the seems in your pants pocket, unless you're slick and dapper, sporting your cargo pants. • Does NOT sync your calendar OR your contact to Outlook., which you can upload information to in CSV format. • Still no Flash support. Does YouTube through 3GP, and only recently stopped blocking customers from accessing it after paying up. • AccuWeather - $3.99/mo. Paying FOR THE WEATHER. That's not cool. • Personal Organizer, Meh - 'Nobody wants to maintain two different calendars with their schedules on it. There's also no task list, so if you wanted to use this phone as an organizer, it'd be kind of a stretch.' • Browser Zoom,, but its NO iPhone • Buy music tracks over the air at $1.99 a pop. What's wrong? Where for art thou? • Supports Yahoo Music and a couple of other DRM formats. No iTunes though (understandably). • Web browser ALWAYS starts in Google 'mobilizer' mode, chopping full HTML down to mobile sizes. You can choose 'full HTML' but it stays only for the rest of that session. Give that 'mobilized' content is the default, it gives you an idea of how inconvenient full-HTML browsing is on the Helio compared to the iPhone.
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