Lamenting the Death of Helio
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I'm always one for the underdog, and I'd be lying if I said that wasn't a big part of why I chose to purchase a Helio Ocean last winter. At the time, I was looking for a slick smartphone that wasn't a Blackberry, had 3G (so the iPhone was out), and generally appealed to my geeky sensibilities. The Ocean, Helio's flagship phone, fit the bill quite nicely--so I eagerly made the jump.
(Honestly, I was waiting for the release of Google's Android phones, but knowing that they wouldn't show up until the end of 2008 (at the absolute ...