same here. there's not much helio has to offer now other than it's slightly better plans and SMS. on the variety of devices available, helio is no competition to AT&T, T-mobile, Verizon, or even Sprint. the iphone's definitely more sexy and got way more third party apps than the ocean.
You own an Ocean, so I'm sure you know it's a solid phone, your getting caught up in the "touch screen" hype which in the end only amounts to an expensive data plan and what some would refer to as a gimmick. Ultimately it's your call.
Lets see if I can help you out with the apparent short sighted comment regarding the Helio Ocean 2 my friend. Helio was the first company to offer a large amount of funtionality in one device when it introduced the HEero back in 2006. In short, it was such a powerhouse the it quickly outsold most if not all of its competition almost immediately and with its kind of 'hip' introduction of a direct connection to Myspace through its own portal, it gained the young demographic no one else could but that everyone wanted to grab...idiot kids.
Almost immediately you saw look alikes and big box companies trying to solicit Pantech to create 'like' devices for them to sell...kind of like how record lables release artists with songs similar to other artists on other lables...so they can grab a piece of the $$$. Now:
US June 29 (Original iPhone Release Date) vs 5-06 (Original Helio Release Date)
Almost exactly at the same time this was happenning, iPhone comes out and blows everything about expectations out of the water in regards to competition including every competitor and even Helio, except by this time...which is only a few short months...you are seeing really shitty phones hit the market, overshadowing Helios dominance by a plastic device with a radio on it or maybe a scatchy TV app.
Helio Followed suit and release cool 'other' phones like the heat and the drift (which I think both sucked but were kind of cool, just not as cool as the iPhone..ala really plasticky and flimsy)
Then comes Ocean...the closest thing to the pinnacle of Helios acheivements which also mark the exhausted companies trek into the cell phone market...the Ocean basically set up Helio to be sold. Helio sells with the bad reviews coming in about the Ocean because its not an iPhone and Virgin Mobile buys up Helio which allows Helio to produce the Ocean 2 to compete with the iPhone.
By now anyone whose known Helio knows that the Ocean 2 is the absolute Pinnacle of Helio production incorporating userfriendly apps with less focus on the myspace and facebook crown while catering to them at the same time...add a haptic optical mouse with click option and you are good to go.
Now when you hold the Ocean 2 you know its a bit heavy but at least its not plasticky like all those other phones out there and the fact that its NOT an IPHONE but creates a similar satisfaction...you then know why they created the Helio Ocean 2. No I dont work for them but with all these stupid ass comments about how its not an iPhone makes me glad I have the Ocean 2 instead. So, maybe instead of making the comment of "I dont see why they wasted thier time with this device" why dont you try one? My roomate has the original Ocean and the Ocean 2 blows it away actually with a better interface and more custom functions that its Ocean Predecessor fails on but at least you can actually see that they are making improvements instead of coming out with cheap ass crap like t-mobile (well okay maybe the andriod is cool) and Verizon (who keeps coming out with plastic crap).
“There's a certain feeling of wading through water with this phone, as every time we went exploring the menus, we were met with a delay long enough to make us doubt our keystrokes registered.”
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i bought my ocean 1 like the week it came out....
it was a good phone like a yr and a half ago....
only real competition was the iPhone 2G....
now there's iPhone 3G, HTC Touch Diamond,
Samsung Omnia, Palm's Pre.... etc etc...
i have no idea why helio (now owned by virgin)...
even bother with this device....
as much as i like my ocean now, i'm parting wit helio as soon as my contract ends in june...
same here. there's not much helio has to offer now other than it's slightly better plans and SMS. on the variety of devices available, helio is no competition to AT&T, T-mobile, Verizon, or even Sprint. the iphone's definitely more sexy and got way more third party apps than the ocean.
You own an Ocean, so I'm sure you know it's a solid phone, your getting caught up in the "touch screen" hype which in the end only amounts to an expensive data plan and what some would refer to as a gimmick. Ultimately it's your call.
Lets see if I can help you out with the apparent short sighted comment regarding the Helio Ocean 2 my friend. Helio was the first company to offer a large amount of funtionality in one device when it introduced the HEero back in 2006. In short, it was such a powerhouse the it quickly outsold most if not all of its competition almost immediately and with its kind of 'hip' introduction of a direct connection to Myspace through its own portal, it gained the young demographic no one else could but that everyone wanted to grab...idiot kids.
Almost immediately you saw look alikes and big box companies trying to solicit Pantech to create 'like' devices for them to sell...kind of like how record lables release artists with songs similar to other artists on other lables...so they can grab a piece of the $$$. Now:
US June 29 (Original iPhone Release Date) vs 5-06 (Original Helio Release Date)
Almost exactly at the same time this was happenning, iPhone comes out and blows everything about expectations out of the water in regards to competition including every competitor and even Helio, except by this time...which is only a few short months...you are seeing really shitty phones hit the market, overshadowing Helios dominance by a plastic device with a radio on it or maybe a scatchy TV app.
Helio Followed suit and release cool 'other' phones like the heat and the drift (which I think both sucked but were kind of cool, just not as cool as the iPhone..ala really plasticky and flimsy)
Then comes Ocean...the closest thing to the pinnacle of Helios acheivements which also mark the exhausted companies trek into the cell phone market...the Ocean basically set up Helio to be sold. Helio sells with the bad reviews coming in about the Ocean because its not an iPhone and Virgin Mobile buys up Helio which allows Helio to produce the Ocean 2 to compete with the iPhone.
By now anyone whose known Helio knows that the Ocean 2 is the absolute Pinnacle of Helio production incorporating userfriendly apps with less focus on the myspace and facebook crown while catering to them at the same time...add a haptic optical mouse with click option and you are good to go.
Now when you hold the Ocean 2 you know its a bit heavy but at least its not plasticky like all those other phones out there and the fact that its NOT an IPHONE but creates a similar satisfaction...you then know why they created the Helio Ocean 2. No I dont work for them but with all these stupid ass comments about how its not an iPhone makes me glad I have the Ocean 2 instead. So, maybe instead of making the comment of "I dont see why they wasted thier time with this device" why dont you try one? My roomate has the original Ocean and the Ocean 2 blows it away actually with a better interface and more custom functions that its Ocean Predecessor fails on but at least you can actually see that they are making improvements instead of coming out with cheap ass crap like t-mobile (well okay maybe the andriod is cool) and Verizon (who keeps coming out with plastic crap).
So, I guess you guys can eat one :)