Helio Ocean review

The Helio Ocean can be a stylish, feature-packed phone. Its innovative dual-slider design allows for any typical phone keyboard together with a complete keyboard.Despite the fact that it lacks Wi-Fi, it offers fast EvDO data access, Bluetooth, built-in Gps navigation navigation, together with an excellent do-it-all message center that mixes text, IM and email. Furthermore you possess an easy-to-use 2Mp camera (with costly) that could record video.

Helio Ocean review

Overall, we’re impressed using this fun phone. Really the only drawback we found while using $295 (about Â£150) Helio Ocean was every so often fuzzy or hollow-sounding audio inside our informal test calls to several amounts (all within the US). When the cause was the telephone call company Sprint or Helio’s local service in San Francisco Bay Area or possibly a hardware limitation inside the phone itself, we’re able to not say. Calls in the Treo (with AT&T service) for the same amounts generally appeared better.Another minor problem: battery existence for your Helio Ocean only agreed to be fair inside our tests, lasting 5.5 several hours (we test for a maximum of 10 several hours).Still, the Ocean can be a pleasure to take advantage of. The twin-slider design presents large buttons for phone bringing in portrait mode, as well as the spacious keyboard in breathtaking mode produces smooth email together with other text entry. Most programs (some games being the exception) instantly adjust the 2.4in, 240×320-pixel display if you vary from landscape and portrait and again, and assorted buttons round the front and edges in the phone permit you to quickly affect the volume, stop and start music, and perform other functions.