Helio Ocean 2 reviews – an excellent features oriented phone offered by Virgin Mobile
- Wednesday, February 4, 2009, 7:48
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Virgin Mobile’s Helio Ocean 2 comes with a feature that merges and mixes address books from several different sources to let the user e-mail, text, or instant message all the contacts quickly and easily. This feature is called “Synergy”. The Helio Ocean 2 is an inexpensive, $149.99 device that comes with a two-year Virgin Mobile contract. Its messaging features make it a pretty hip device for messaging friends. The Ocean is supplied at traditional pricing and requires a two-year contract with less pricey monthly plans. The mobile is quite huge with a weight of 5.9 ounces. It measures 4.7 by 2.3 by 0.8 inches. You can open the phone in two ways. You can slide the screen up or slide it sideways to get a full QWERTY keyboard. The traditional as well as the full keyboard feature raised and tightly packed buttons.
The four-way rocker, comprising an optical sensor in the middle takes care of the navigation in the phone. The phone houses the controls for camera, music, volume, and silencing live on its sides. The side of the phone also houses a standard 3.5mm headphone jack. The phone comes with a 2-megapixel camera on its back. The LCD of the phone is 2.6-inches long and has a resolution of 320-by-240. The sound quality of the phone’s earpiece is excellent with little or no background noise. The phone lacks voice dialing but works efficiently with wired as well as Bluetooth mono and stereo headsets. The battery life offered by the phone is an overwhelming 6 hours and many extra minutes. A downside of the phone is that you can not set MP3s as ringtones.
The phone has a built-in Picsel Viewer that lets you view Microsoft Office and PDF attachments at extreme ease. The phone also includes a MySpace client and a GPS-based locator called Buddy Beacon that is compatible with most other Sprint and Boost phones. The phone also features Helio Connect that gets you updates from MySpace, Facebook, YouTube, Flickr, and Twitter, all in one page. The Ocean 2’s Web browser is quite slow and that is why the company recommends Opera Mini as an alternative browser. As far as media is concerned, the phone supports Windows Media Player 11, MP3, WMA, and AAC files, including subscription based WMA files. It also plays MPEG-4 and H.264 videos. All these features make the Helio Ocean 2 worth a try.
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