Helio Ocean – First Impressions

Filed Under Gadgets & Hardware | 2007-05-14, 23:46

The Helio Ocean arrived today. My first impressions:
– nice and small
– the slide is kind of cool
– nice 2mp camera
– downloadable video, meh. but the episode of Ask a Ninja was totally watchable.
– wow fast speeds
– GPS is pretty good
– Google Maps looks gorgeous and is fast
– buttons are very non-intuitive
– space bar is tiny
– keyboard not too bad, but not too great
– definitely some buggy software

So far my thoughts are “I wish they could combine the Sidekick OS with the Helio hardware”. I’ll have a more in depth review coming eventually, with a side by side comparison to the Sidekick 3. Some quick pictures are up over on Flickr.

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Helio Ocean on the way

Filed Under Gadgets & Hardware | 2007-05-11, 07:42

I received an email notification at 3am that my Helio Ocean order was put through. I have to wait two days (probably Monday arrival), but I saved close to $200 by taking the presales route. I’ve been a huge fan of Danger and their Sidekicks for years, but the Ocean is enticing. It’s the first phone that I’ve seen that could compete with the Sidekick 3. Apparently a lot of others are saying the same thing. Danger, is it time to step up the game and go back to releasing ground-breaking devices?