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I've been a really happy Ocean user and have never had any issues with Helio...but I'm going to hang on and see how things work out. With any luck they will leave everything place that is working and just absorb the name.

However, when was the last time a merger happened that didn't completely jack the company being acquired. ]]>Jun 26th 2008 11:16PMhttp://www.engadget.com/2008/06/26/helio-stores-shutting-down/http://www.engadget.com/2008/06/26/helio-stores-shutting-down/Jun 27th 2008 1:51AMhttp://www.engadget.com/2008/06/26/helio-stores-shutting-down/http://www.engadget.com/2008/06/26/helio-stores-shutting-down/
Its a dog eat dog world out there.... its china town...]]>Jun 26th 2008 10:26PMhttp://www.engadget.com/2008/06/26/helio-stores-shutting-down/http://www.engadget.com/2008/06/26/helio-stores-shutting-down/Jun 26th 2008 10:56PMhttp://www.engadget.com/2008/06/26/helio-stores-shutting-down/http://www.engadget.com/2008/06/26/helio-stores-shutting-down/Jun 26th 2008 10:27PMhttp://www.engadget.com/2008/06/26/helio-stores-shutting-down/http://www.engadget.com/2008/06/26/helio-stores-shutting-down/
I'm sorry, I shouldn't have said that. I apologize.]]>Jun 26th 2008 10:29PMhttp://www.engadget.com/2008/06/26/helio-stores-shutting-down/http://www.engadget.com/2008/06/26/helio-stores-shutting-down/Jun 26th 2008 10:35PMhttp://www.engadget.com/2008/06/26/helio-stores-shutting-down/http://www.engadget.com/2008/06/26/helio-stores-shutting-down/
Camera chick hot or not?

Ewww, thigh arms!]]>Jun 26th 2008 10:36PMhttp://www.engadget.com/2008/06/26/helio-stores-shutting-down/http://www.engadget.com/2008/06/26/helio-stores-shutting-down/xD]]>Jun 26th 2008 11:13PMhttp://www.engadget.com/2008/06/26/helio-stores-shutting-down/http://www.engadget.com/2008/06/26/helio-stores-shutting-down/Jun 27th 2008 1:38AMhttp://www.engadget.com/2008/06/26/helio-stores-shutting-down/http://www.engadget.com/2008/06/26/helio-stores-shutting-down/
http://www.thomas-pr.com/19/ctia2004/ctia0412.html

Sue Marek, the photographer, is the one on the left.]]>Jun 27th 2008 3:40AMhttp://www.engadget.com/2008/06/26/helio-stores-shutting-down/http://www.engadget.com/2008/06/26/helio-stores-shutting-down/
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my ocean cost 200 on launch day (that was with 100 bucks off)...

never got the "free" memory card, the phone had keys that stopped working 5 days in, I spent over 15 hours total on their customer service line (about 12 of that on hold) over the period of 6 months trying to get my money back (even with their 30 day super-duper-bullshit guarantee).

in the end.... I got a check in the mail that wasn't even for the full amount, I spent WAY too much of my minutes on my cell on speaker waiting for another lying, untrained, snotty douche to lie to me about what they weren't really going to do to help me.......



there's a reason that helio has bad reviews at the BBB and even with mega-corporation money and cool-looking phones still couldn't manage to keep their heads above water...

....the reason is? they sucked. their phones not made by samsung sucked. their customer service MORE than sucked, it's the worst I've ever dealt with (and I work in the customer service industry). and as for their awesome pricing.. the ocean was 415 without contract the day it launched, couldn't do MOBILE youtube without a $6/month fee (just for youtube, mind you) on their unlimited internet, sounded like you were listening to the person on the other end through a tin can full of paper towels, couldn't even set the ring tone for texts.. 4 choices... and didn't have a way to get wallpapers that would shift with the screens orientation.. it was one or the other.. black bars on the sides for the opposite aspect than you made the wallpaper for (and they didn't even have any compatible for purchase that would work either).


.... ugh.. I've gotten myself onto a monologue/rant thing and I'm sorry for that.... but hellio (spelled wrong intentionally) was/is a waste of time and a sorry smudge of a mistake on the cell phone industry.

now I'm with verizon.. and they are the exact opposite. I'm so ashamed that I almost left them for a shiny commercial and the promise of a phone that did it all perfectly.... and ended up doing nothing even well.]]>Jun 27th 2008 4:27AMhttp://www.engadget.com/2008/06/26/helio-stores-shutting-down/http://www.engadget.com/2008/06/26/helio-stores-shutting-down/Jun 26th 2008 11:09PMhttp://www.engadget.com/2008/06/26/helio-stores-shutting-down/http://www.engadget.com/2008/06/26/helio-stores-shutting-down/Jun 26th 2008 11:14PMhttp://www.engadget.com/2008/06/26/helio-stores-shutting-down/http://www.engadget.com/2008/06/26/helio-stores-shutting-down/Jun 27th 2008 1:26AMhttp://www.engadget.com/2008/06/26/helio-stores-shutting-down/http://www.engadget.com/2008/06/26/helio-stores-shutting-down/Jun 26th 2008 11:14PMhttp://www.engadget.com/2008/06/26/helio-stores-shutting-down/http://www.engadget.com/2008/06/26/helio-stores-shutting-down/Jun 26th 2008 11:16PMhttp://www.engadget.com/2008/06/26/helio-stores-shutting-down/http://www.engadget.com/2008/06/26/helio-stores-shutting-down/Jun 27th 2008 11:05AMhttp://www.engadget.com/2008/06/26/helio-stores-shutting-down/http://www.engadget.com/2008/06/26/helio-stores-shutting-down/Jun 27th 2008 12:06AMhttp://www.engadget.com/2008/06/26/helio-stores-shutting-down/http://www.engadget.com/2008/06/26/helio-stores-shutting-down/Jun 27th 2008 12:08AMhttp://www.engadget.com/2008/06/26/helio-stores-shutting-down/http://www.engadget.com/2008/06/26/helio-stores-shutting-down/
I was recruited and brought in MONTHS before the service would even launch into the corporate LA offices. I went to FOUR interviews. Most of the people who had ZERO fucking expiernce in wireless. And I wound up not getting the job. Why? " You wore a business suit. Were not that culture here. We want people that think differently..." Right.

The fact they released mediocre handsets with nothing to differentiate them did not help them. Along with prick who stole yet more money. Wow SKY DAYTON, your 3 - 3 for ruining companies. Hows Katie and Robo-Baby? scientologist]]>Jun 27th 2008 1:40AM