The user interface is navigated through a circular design that places your contacts at the center (perhaps indicating that connecting people is at the center of this heliocentric universe). Well done.įrom a feature perspective the Ocean holds much in common with its siblings Drift and Heat. Everyone knows I love the Blackjack, but typing on it can be a nuisance due to the crowding on the keyboard. This is a problem I’ve experienced with practically every smartphone I’ve used. The keys are adequately spaced so that even with my giant fingers, I could easily hit just one button. Its keyboard is the best I’ve yet seen on a device of this nature. It’s not obtrusive or anything, it just has a healthy weight to it. The combination of the two adds to the device depth and mass that surpasses that of most typical phones. The Ocean incorporates a two-way sliding mechanism that gives the devices the powers of both a phone keypad and a full QWERTY keyboard. The Ocean washed up on our doorstep yesterday and I’ve been wading through it over the past 24 hours. It was a good position be in, but now with the device nearly released, it’s time to defuse the buzz and see how the device performs. Since it announced the Ocean back in March, Helio has been floating pretty on the buzz created by the new $295 device. Aimed directly at the Sidekick crowd, the Ocean could be poised to erode some of T-Mobile’s bountiful cache of hip youngsters with cash to liquidate for cool technologies. Previously allotted for a limited demographic, the Ocean signals a significant market expansion for the cellco youngster Helio. The Helio Ocean marks a sea change in the evolution of MVNOs.
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