We've had lots of time to use, re-use, and abstract every affection attainable on the Helio Ocean. We've done UI videos, hardware galleries, handset administration tutorials and sync tutorials, but what you absolutely ambition to apperceive is what we anticipate of it. Here's our review, torn down affection by affection so you can calmly see the ones that amount the a lot of to you.
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Idle Search: By far, the coolest and a lot of advantageous affair on the Helio Ocean is its adeptness to seek appropriate off the abandoned homescreen. Like Spotlight on a Mac, it can seek through assorted things, namely, your acquaintance list, or any of the websites the Ocean supports: Yahoo, Google, Google Maps (using the phone's Java version), Wikipedia, Yelp and Amazon. If Helio is smart, they'll let the buzz do the abandoned seek from a customizable annual of websites.
Instant Messaging:The accession of the slide-out keyboard and new IM apps is fantastic, but we're abject by not getting able to accept added than one AIM annual online simultaneously. You can do MSN, Yahoo and AIM at the aforementioned time, but there's no Google Allocution even admitting there's a GMail app. Oh, and you can't about-face off the AIM alive complete unless you blackout the absolute phone. And you can forward photos over IM, which I accept is a aboriginal for a built-in buzz IM client. TXT and SMS screens are great, too. And you can get to the argument messaging bound by acute down on the d-pad, while a continued columnist down will attainable a new text/pic message.
Email: Email isn't advance (yet—exchange may be advancing soon) and you can't set up analysis intervals, but we accept heard allocution about Yahoo alms advance email like they will for the iPhone. UPDATE: It's advance for Yahoo! AOL and Windows Live. But the actuality that you can analysis Hotmail, AOL Mail, GMail, Helio mail, Yahoo Mail, and Earthlink mail all from your buzz is fantastic. (Plus accepted POP3 and IMAP.) Plus, there's abysmal affiliation into added apps like the camera so you can forward pictures from any of your accounts from the Photo Album screen.
Camera: The 2mp camera captures images at 1600x1200, and downward. The shots are grainy, and dull, compared with those from the Nokia N series phones and the Cybershot Sony Ericsson phones. But they're a lot bigger than most. A lot better, frankly. The best affair is the Helio Up mode, which uploads your tagged photos to an online album, tagged with descriptions and even GPS geotagged metadata. The controls are great: white balance, multi-shot modes, flash, furnishings and frames, although the frames didn't work (UPDATE: They plan at the low res 240x180 photo setting) and the controls should accept been attainable afterwards digging into a menu. Video is recorded at 320 x 240 and 176 x 144 for MMSing.
Keyboard: I didn't anticipate it was as abundant as I did aback at CTIA if I alone acclimated it for a few minutes. Instead of getting luxuriously spaced like HTC phones are, it's added like walking in an attic crawlspace—cramped and uncomfortable. The accent 3 is bigger in some ways, like the adaptable keys and bigger spacebar, but the arresting @ attribute on the Ocean is nice. But you will not be able to blazon as fast as you could on some added phones like the Accent or HTC's. Still, it gets the job done actual able-bodied and should be added than abundant already you get acclimated to it.
Sliding Keypad: The keypad is one of the a lot of high-profile differences in the Ocean. I apprehend about its appropriate triangle bounce that pulls both the backlit QWERTY and the keypad attainable and bankrupt with the superior "thunk" of a BMW car door. I don't apperceive if I charge the dialpad if I accept the QWERTY. Dialing is annoying on a keypad (see the Hiptop, and the awkward top row of the Ocean's keyboard) but 95% of the time, I'm application a acceleration dial. If they could accomplish the buzz slimmer, and lose the average layer, I'd go for it. But Chen disagrees. All in all, the QWERTY is appealing abuse nice.
Battery Life: With all the additions present in the Ocean, one account we ambition had been bigger was the array life. It's an affair with the earlier Helio accessories as well, with all the UI flashiness, the 3G, and assorted added apps running, you'll be advantageous to accept the buzz endure a day on abundant use. Not to acknowledgment if you do a lot of calling and media playback.
Speakers: Scientifically activated with "My Humps," I would acknowledge the speakers to be of fair aggregate and clarity.
GPS/Buddy Beacon/Google Maps: These are absurd appearance agitated over from the Drift, which is aswell GPS enabled. However, Associate Anxiety doesn't plan in mural mode, and we ambition they'd achieve on accepting either Google Maps or Mapquest (buddy beacon) instead of two abstracted mapping suites. But getting able to locate absolutely area you or your buddies are is priceless.
The Abandoned Screen/Home Page: The home page shows the time, array life, arrangement status, and a few controls, but largely, it's ashen absolute estate. A acceptable amount of the Ocean's competitors, like a lot of of the N-series phones, Windows Adaptable phones, Palm devices, Hiptop, and anon the iPhone put abysmal action on page one, I apprehend Helio's custom advised buzz to accommodated this akin of UI. Appropriate now, you can abuse it out with a apple clock or falling icons, like kitties (very cool, seriously) or lightning bolts, video wallpapers, or altered clocks. I'd like it if Sky and the Helions put surf/snowboard/weather letters on the aperture page, if not a absolute band to the capital menu's functions. It's nitpicking, but I anticipate Helio charge to accede this being if they ambition to exhausted out the arid old business phones.
Media: The Ocean is a adequate media buzz with alien controls (which don't in fact activate the music)(UPDATE: continued presses do the trick, and they are advised this way to abstain the buzz arena "My Humps" in your pocket, which is adverse if you're into that affectionate of thing), and you can amount 2GB of music assimilate it with the microSD card, but it will not be about as able-bodied as the iPhone. Plus, the $1.99 advance are affectionate of pricey, abnormally seeing what Sprint is accomplishing with the Upstage and their $1 pricing. The alive video superior isn't abundant either, but it's adequate abundant to accomplish you still ambition to watch. As for multi-tasking, you can't accept if you're accomplishing annihilation added than browsing.
Data Accompany Support: The air-conditioned affair about Helio—you can switch amid handset on the website. Some suggestions. Data Syncing and buzz switching from the accessories themselves, not a website accessed by a PC. The Accompany affair is a problem. Appropriate now, you can upload, by CSV to the Helio website, your address book. And you can do an over the air absorb of your online abode book with your phone. But what you can't do is accompany your contacts amid phones easily, nor can you accompany with your PC except through chiral importing. There is aswell the catechism of Mac support. Mac users and Helio users assume to be of the aforementioned demographic, so this seems critical, the way it's analytical for Sling and TiVo. And yes, syncing is addition botheration with the industry, but if Helio wants to abort the competition, that's just something they should accumulate in mind. Oh, there's no way to cal accompany either. UPDATE: Hit the accompany button in the acquaintance agenda and it does a two-way accompany amid buzz and Helio's online data. Sweet! Let's get that in absolute time!
Browser: Helio's new browser makes HTML surfing easier in two ways: Zoom out to 50%, or by accouterment a window map of the absolute page for simple scrolling. (Nokia has this.) I like the browser, but ambition the zoom out went to about 30%, and was easier to access. The window'd map approach is great. It's alive if you amount a page, and turns off already you baddest a arena to apprehend on. Perfect. The arrangement itself is apathetic to alpha but quick after. I doubtable that the affiliation handshakes every time you bang a link, because Sprint's arrangement is afire fast, as you've heard me say before. As I've said affluence of times, the aboriginal humans to get YouTube on a adaptable browser (flash abutment is key), on 3G, will be big winners in my book. Oh, beat to RSS feeds brings you to Google's account reader. Cool.
Apps: Even admitting you get Associate Anxiety and Google Maps for free, Helio still accuse you for assorted added things. For example, you accept to hire the Accuweather acclimate app for $3.99 a month. Also, there's no blogging software that lets you blog to Wordpress or Movable type.
Games: The amateur that are attainable are appropriate for cellphone games, but a lot of of them don't plan in mural approach so you'll be arena just like any added cellphone. The dpad orientates itself on the larboard if you cast it 180 degrees from the QWERTY perspective. A lot of amateur aren't mural now, yes, but there's Lumines and others, and added will come.
Multi Buzz Support: One abundant affair about Helio is that you can about-face your amount amid assorted devices. We documented the number-sharing process, but in essence, you can accept your Ocean if you feel like accomplishing added messaging and emailing, but about-face to the earlier and slimmer Heat or Drift if you just ambition a buzz for demography calls. Just beat off a radio box online and you're all set. Much easier than swapping out SIMs.
Accessories: The Helio's headphones are of fair quality, active into the baby mini jack, and able with the microphone. I like that its captivated in cloth, and gray. The best accent is the Metal and Suede Helio cellphone charm that serves as a screenwipe. Stylish. If you ask me, the aboriginal aggregation to cover several charms with their phones will do appealing well. Humans are apparent like that.
Calendar and Organization: The bad account is that you can't accompany your agenda to your Mac or PC, even admitting barter syncing may be advancing soon. Nobody wants to advance two altered calendars with their schedules on it. There's aswell no assignment list, so if you capital to use this buzz as an organizer, it'd be affectionate of a stretch. You've aswell got apps like stopwatch, unit conversion, world time and wake up call, which acts like an anxiety that approved humans can use.
Our final advocacy would be: buy it, but alone afterwards you accede our caveats. If there's one or two appearance you absolutely need, but aren't met but the Ocean, again you're bigger off about else. Otherwise, this is a absurd multimedia messaging buzz with appearance that are harder to top. – Jason Chen and Brian Lam
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