Do you have a Helio phone? If so, pay attention. Virgin Mobile has just announced that due to their aquistion by Sprint they are being forced to shut down the Helio service. The date? May 25th. More information on the shutdown, courtesy of Crunchgear, below: No customer will be automatically migrated to Sprint’s postpaid service. However, [...]

If Helio Ocean is what you want then Helio Ocean 2 is what you get! That’s right folks, the phone is available already, and it will cost you just $149 with a contract or $400 without a contract. If you’re really impressed with it then you should go ahead and get the contract version. Maybe [...]

We’ve been waiting for this Helio Ocean 2 since 2007 and it looks like it will arrive later this quarter. And it’s Virgin Mobile who will probably launch this Helio since it owns it. The Helio Ocean 2 will come with a QWERTY and an alphanumeric keyboard. We are to expect a QVGA display, 3G [...]

The Helio in the picture here is a Helio slider phone which might or might not see the light of day. It is said it was made by Samsung based on the Samsung F400 and branded with B&O and Armani but we have no idea if Virgin or anyone else is going to pick this [...]

The Helio Ocean 2 phone must surely have some fans out there which have to know that the FCC has just approved an OZII device which is made by Pantech and which must be the Helio Ocean 2. Here’s what the FCC says about the insides of the OZII: QVGA screen Numeric keypad and QWERTY [...]

Virgin Mobile has now entered the 3G realm with the new Virgin Shuttle, manufactured by Personal Communication Devices. Designed to work with 3G of the EV-DO kind, the Virgin Shuttle slider manages to be both stylish and feature packed with a little Helio touch, fresh off its recent acquisition. PCD has squeezed in a 1.3 [...]

Helio today has just announced Mysto, an ultra-thin slider featuring a large, reflective mirror-like screen, a svelte, sapphire blue body and electrostatic keys that make the device shake when pressed. Along with this, they also released WHERE and Tellme, two new GPS search services by Helio. This will be an added service to Helio’s already [...]

The gesture confuses us a bit here in Mobilewhack, but we guess Helio, Samsung and SK Telecom have their reasons for doing so. The new Helio Mysto soft-launched in the United States last December 21. It uses the Korean language. In the United States. A conjecture would be they wanted to test its performance in [...]

Helio’s Ocean is making more waves. This time around, the MVNO (mobile virtual network operator) will unleash a YouTube application for mobile phones. One of the key features missing in the iPhone’s YouTube application is the ability to login using your credentials and view your own videos or leave comments. With the Helio application, you [...]

With its partnership with Samsung, Helio has announced another very hot addition to their suite of 3G handsets. The new Samsung Fin is a 11.4mm thick clamshell phone that packs in all sorts of great features. There is a 3 megapixel camera that works in conjunction with the HelioUp application and the Fin’s built-in GPS [...]