How would you change Helio's Ocean 2?
By Darren Murph 
posted March 6th 2009 10:26PM
posted March 6th 2009 10:26PM
posted March 6th 2009 10:26PM
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What is it with the weird shape?
back in summer of 2007, helio coined the phrase "iphone-killer". Since, we have yet to see the iphonekiller.,.,.,
Easy, not make it look like it belongs on the playground.
Make it available on the regular pre-paid Virgin Mobile service.
sorry fanboys, I just don't find this How would you change worthy,
it's like asking how would I change a random HP laptop
Well, how about making it so that the "send" and "end" buttons aren't on the bottom edge of the phone? Looks to me like you'd have to use two hands to make a call or else run the risk of it slipping out of your hands. Oh, you could also make it not ugly. That would be a start.
cheaper plans
Do Helio fanboys still exist?
They must've went to worship Apple.
Justify the thickness or eliminate it.
itd b better if theyd give one to me
I got a 250 dollar alarm clock and 2mp cam now, thats all. Useless helio drift, cant even unlock it. can I ???
put it on a major network
Needs a GSM version
Give me a dual slider that has a touchscreen and runs a real smartphone OS is that so hard do it please
Why would you want a dual slider and a touch screen? Why not just eliminate the number pad and just add touch dialing?
thinner,touchscreen(optional),tone down the shine, and i will buy
FORGET IT EXISTS...
Let's be productive please.
Now, children, snacktime!
Make it cheaper, thinner and take away the dumb touch-sensitive pad and replace with the one from the first Helio Ocean.
You can turn off the touch sensitive pad, the regular dpad controls are still there on the ring and the touch sensitive makes scrolling much better in the web browser and in lists. It takes a little getting used to but It works really well for me and I'd much rather have it and the regular dpad than being stuck with just the old dpad.
1. Touchscreen - This kind of phone screams for this
2. Get rid of the dial pad - pointless with a touch screen, eh?
3. Android - Because Helio can't be expected to compete at this point when it comes to touch screens. And if Android supports it they should have their own kind of shell or whatever just for the Ocean
3. Thinner - This should happen automatically.
So you're basically saying you would change the Helio Ocean 2 by erasing it's existence and putting a G2 in it's place?
Just android the dule slide makes it diffrent from the G1
i think it is basically what it needs to be it doesn't really pretend to be something its not
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Android.
The only thing that would make it better is if it was at the bottom of a trash can
"well first of all I would want it to be rebranded under the Virgin Mobile brand and features. And I would like it to be offered with contract-less plans like metro pcs and Boost Mobile. Actually I think Virgin Mobile in general should offer plans like that. But I really like the phone."
with that nice keyboard putting winmob on it wouldn't be bad
WinMo? This was ment to be a feature phone, not a bogged down hard to use phone!
They have that. It's called the Pantech Matrix Pro.
http://www.engadgetmobile.com/2009/02/23/pantechs-matrix-pro-179-99-february-24th-atandt-stores/
I would add a better browser. The Helio browser comes with a rendering setting that renders pages in a one column view. But I think Opera fixed that. Also, add a better camera. Come on already.
Well, being a Helio Ocean owner, I could tell you what it would take me to buy the thing -
1 - give it a larger screen.
2 - make it a touch screen
3 - drop all the Facebook, youtube crap. If it had decent browser, it wouldn't need this 'special integration'. How about some real apps? I'm not a flipping 13 year old using my Mom's computer to type this, so don't treat me like it.
4 - Browser! The free downloadable opera browser should have been standard on the old one, as the included browser software is the pits. Opera isn't the best thing, but it was the only alternative.
5 - make changing email/IM notifications more flexible.
On the other hand, when you revise this handset just for me, here's some things you did right Mr Helio:
1 - don't you take away my dual slider, that is why I bought the first one, and it's all you got going on
2 - the inbox is great - I get more email on this thing then I know what to do with.
3 - Only app worth a damn: Google Maps.
My contract is up in June... I've got my ship-jumping shorts on.
Mine's in sept, i cant wait - sprint here i come!
yeah im out in june also - Gonna be the Pre for me :)
I have no idea what to change as I happily was able to dump this overpriced overhyped company when my contract ran out on March 1st. I would never have signed up for myself. It was for my teenage daughter. The company double charged me so many times and other crud and the outsourced help is ridiculous. If you can understand them they are complete idiots and of no help! Stay away stay far away!
I wanted to love my ocean so much. But even the cool geotagging feature that it had before just about everybody else would do cute things like take 5 minutes to upload, so the coordinates was three blocks off by the time it got on my flickr. And even when it did get there it would automatically have a Helio watermark in the corner of it. Just because I took a picture and happened to use my phone does not mean that Helio automatically owns it.
I do like the inbox on the phone, it often gets my gmail before I even see it on my computer. If the Ocean actually bothered to push OTA updates so they could keep implementing new apps and features and fixing the bugs, I would be totally happy without my touchscreen. As it is, the few "apps" out there are incredibly boring and basic. This was a phone that could have been so many things if there was any kind of development community behind it.
Ocean 2 should have been a touch screen qwerty slider with a 5 megapixel camera running android with a Virgin/Helio skin over it.
I cannot wait for my contract to be over.
i would make it in my hands!
WinMo 6.1 Pro (with upgrade to 6.5) and make it thinner.
Go GSM. Time the US caught up to the rest of the world, I think
How would I change it? Not operate on any network managed by Sprint is a great start!
First of all i didnt know that helio was even still in business, i mean i had there service before but htat was when everybody wanted it. now you have the g1 and the iphone and your trying to compete against those two with this paper wait of a phone. it looks more like a shiny dumbell then a phone. maybe i will buy one so i can get a good work out will i text.
besides that, like a few of yu have said they should try making it smaller, thinner and possibly toushscreen and i think android would be a good move as far as there operating system goes. they also need to tone down on all of those buttons, it alsomst looks like a remote.
Guys, you forgot to remove Jason from your image.
Start with adding the features that were rumored to be on the phone; flash in the browser, 1gb of onboard memory, etc. Then take out the numeric pad and add a touchscreen. Finally make it thinner and smaller and update the OS to something more of like a smartphone or add android.
back in summer of 2007, helio coined the phrase "iphone-killer". Since, we have yet to see the iphonekiller.,.,.,
I'm in the wrong country to even buy this phone, but I don't know what this phone does that justifies a $149 price tag WITH a contract. You can get some pretty nice phones for that price. Hell, even up here Rogers will sell you an E71 for $50 with a contract, and they are assholes. Off contract, the two phones are in the same ballpark. So I guess I would change the price, unless someone knows a reason why this phone is worth what they want for it.
I would make it be able to jump right to the message/email from whatever you are doing when the alerts pop up at the top of the screen. I would also make opera mini the default browser and incorporate the search results from the multiple sites into that when you type directly from the home screen. I would also add the gmail sync so that you could sync all of your contacts from that as well, since its the only email client that you are unable to do that with on the phone. Finally I would include an improved camera WITH FLASH, as well as some more apps and videos to download.
The most glaring things the Ocean2 needs are basic level: support for OGG Vorbis, open up the application installations so that J2ME apps work out of the box, fix the data coverage so it's not dropping every other five minutes (which could easily be fixed with WIFI connectivity), let users configure their own shortcuts through the five buttons on the display face, Flash and STREAMING MEDIA through the browser -- Orb still doesn't work and it should. Put the camera flash back on the Ocean 2, it was on the original Ocean and shouldn't have been removed. ALLOW TETHERING. If I could use my phone as a mobile modem, even if the connection was slow as tar, I would love it. Oh and update Google Maps to the newest turn-by-turn version. Are we living in a cave or what?
1. Place handset under car tire
2. Drive car in direction of phone
3. Recycle the remains
4. Let all the ocean-haters like me out of our contracts, dammit!