The deed is done, and
Virgin Mobile is wasting no time giving its fresh acquisition a giant bear-hug to welcome it to the family. Helio is now "Helio by Virgin Mobile," tagged with the line "Plan To Have It All" -- hopefully a nod to the fact that Virgin plans to keep Helio's offerings distanced from Virgin as a higher-end, feature-rich carrier that can compliment Virgin's typical lineup of ultra-cheap prepaid goods. To kick things off, Helio is now offering an upgrade to its $80 A La Carte plan, boosting the 1,500 included minutes to a limitless bucket -- nice, we'll take it -- and Virgin is stealing some of Helio's mojo to offer the Shuttle, a new handset marketed under the Virgin name that'll integrate Helio's
Buddy Beacon service. Just stay on track with the
Ocean 2, fellas, and everything's cool by us.
posted Sep 9th 2008 4:20PM
Helio could've been very successful if they didn't change their direction and tryied to be like Amp'd, and attract teens spending their parents money.
Ampd, how long did they last?
Here is the CORRECT logo folks:
well damn, I FAIL, heres teh link=http://img299.imageshack.us/my.php?image=heliobyvirginlogocz9.jpg
Yeah thats definitely photoshopped, the shadows are all wrong.
.... I'm getting really sick of the following:
1. FAIL comments
2. pwnage
3. I hate / love iPhone comments
Pretty much every comment on Engadget these days involves one of the above.
first lol
dang
Yup, only 17 minutes late there cracker
Isn't Virgin an MVNO? What does that make Helio? MVVNO?
HELIO - "because virgin mobile is doing so well...."
i've never met or even seen anyone with virgin service. every time i go into virgin (which isn't often) their phones look like shit.
thank god perhaps virgins customer service wont suck as much as helios
"Don't call it a phone." Call it a memory.
Once they make an Ocean 2 with a touch screen and actually have better coverage in my state,then I just might switch.
Even better than Helio would be a tiny wizard that lives in your pocket. He'd have the same magical powers as a regular sized wizard, but he'd just be portable. He could like store all your songs in a magic spell and open magic portals so you could talk to your mom if you had a really bad day. He'd be awesome. I'd name mine Merlin2.0.
You need to let the drugs wear off before posting.
can't they lower the prices...they always seemed ridiculous to me
I guess it's the first step on the road to being bought/taken over when ISPs like EarthLink advertise your products.
I was looking to get something like a Helio a year back or so. I didn't, and now I'm happy because I'd be cussing myself out.
And since when is Virgin Mobile doing well? No one I know has VM and their products look like they cost 25 cents to make.
Theres always a market for cheap s**t look at tracfone/net 10 how you think there still in business besides being owned by America Movil; there are just some people who want cheap at whatever cost in looks.
The Shuttle is horrendously ugly and boring. The only reason anyone ever went with Helio is because they offered sleek phones. I'll be waiting out my contract for a year and then switching.