Mobile phones today have as much internet ability as our conventional desktops and laptops do, and the best thing about them is that they are ultra compact. One of the nation’s up and rising telecoms companies, Helio, who shares a bandwidth with Sprint Nextel, appropriately named their new handset as the Ocean. It may be because you can surf the internet on it, or because there is an ocean of possibilities that the mobile phone can open up for you.
The Helio Ocean was released in spring 2007, at a suggested retail price of $295. It has been viewed by many critics and journalists alike to be a fierce competitor of Apple’s iPhone. The Helio Ocean has a smooth oval body in black finish, much smoother and narrower than the iPhone. It also comes in silver and gray. The favorite feature of the Ocean is its dual-slider design, which reveals both a numeric keypad and a QWERTY keypad. Plus, the gigantic 2.4 inch QVGA LCD screen is not something to laugh about. It displays over 260,000 colors, and is viewable in portrait or landscape mode.
Surfing on the Ocean is said to be such a pleasure, aside from not getting soaked or fearing a wipe out. It’s equipped with Evolution Data Optimized (EVDO) technology so web surfers can download and browse pages all they want at high speed, any time and anywhere they may be.