Helio Ocean Unveiled
Helio today introduced the Helio Ocean, the world's first dual-slider.
The slider combines a traditional numeric keypad and a separate full QWERTY keyboard in a single device.The Ocean slides vertically to reveal a traditional alphanumeric keypad for making calls, sending quick texts or surfing the web, and horizontally to reveal a separate full QWERTY keyboard suitable for emails or texts, web searches and full screen landscape viewing of images and video.
The Helio Ocean sports a huge, 2.4-inch, 260K-color high-resolution QVGA display viewable in both portrait or landscape modes, 
external stereo speakers, a 2.0-megapixel camera with digital zoom and flash for photos and over two hours of continuous video recording, Bluetooth for wireless voice and stereo Bluetooth for untethered music and videos, 200 MB internal memory expandable via microSD to over 2 GB, and USB Mass Storage Mode for drag-and-drop sideloading of content. Ocean supports an array of audio and video formats including MP3, AAC and WMA audio, and MPEG4 and H.264 video, all delivered over a nationwide high speed 3G network.
The device carries inside a lot of technology that will allow you to optimize music playback for an estimated 15 hours of continuous audio, has fast sync speeds and support for both subscription and individually purchased music; to browse the Web or their music library without interrupting music playback. Whether listening to tracks downloaded over-the-air from Helio Music, playing 3D or multiplayer games, taking pictures on the go and posting them to MySpace, or utilizing built-in GPS technology for Google Maps for mobile or Buddy Beacon, Ocean keeps Helio members in touch with their friends better than ever before.
Combining email, text messages, picture messages and Instant Messages in a single messaging hub, the Ocean's integrated messaging dashboard includes out-of-the-box access to Yahoo! Mail, AOL Mail, MSN Hotmail, Gmail, Helio Mail, and EarthLink email, as well as the ability to add additional IMAP / POP3 email accounts.
The Ocean's 2.0-megapixel camera will take advantage of Helio UP, which lets users take a picture with their device, tag it with metadata including a title, description, keywords and location information and upload it directly to Helio Album, Helio's photo service. Helio UP is GPS-enabled, giving users the option of attaching their GPS coordinates to their photos.
The Helio Ocean launch is programmed for Spring 2007 at a price of $295.
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