I remember Helio when I fell in love with the Kickflip, made by that company that went under shortly after..
That's too bad.. Amp'd was much worse than Helio at the time of course.
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Good riddance to Virgin Mobile Contract. The whole reason Virgin is cool is because of no contract. People knew that and didn't bite at the contract service. Now it's history.
Any chance, they might put the Ocean II in the non-con lineup? That looked like a nice phone.
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the Drift was my favorite phone that I've ever owned back when I was a Helio customer in '05. It would be great if VM switched them to non-contract phone, but it's doubtful, considering they were 3g phones, video, and other stuff that our current phones don't which would end up costing us more in the long through data rates or video texting, etc.
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Major changes could either be good things like the addition of nicer phones to the lineup or new unlimited plans. It could also be bad like a price increase or limits on data useage. Here's hoping it's the first.
I know it sounds silly and vain but they should have dropped the Virgin Mobile name... Helio name and logo looks more modern and hip. Anywhoozle... the plans and phones themselves are useless... so good riddance
I know it sounds silly and vain but they should have dropped the Virgin Mobile name... Helio name and logo looks more modern and hip. Anywhoozle... the plans and phones themselves are useless... so good riddance
I agree that the name and logo are better looking than VM, but the phones were great IMO. They were durable and had great features that no VM phones have.
-3G(shuttle has it, but the shuttle sucks in the aspect of durability, overal feel, and the stupid touch sensitive buttons)
-card slots(a few VM phones have it, but not all)
-MUCH better cameras...the FIN alone had 3mp i think
-buddy beacon. some thought it was dumb, but i had a few friends with helio and we all used it
-video(once again, shuttle and one or two old VM phones had it, but helio had better cameras, making video better)
-several other things making them better than almost every VM phone
By getting rid of Helio, I think it's smart of Sprint because it hopefully means more money and time for better things for VM, but it's also such a shame for good phones (or as helio called them "mobile devices...dont call us phones") to go to waste
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