Helio Ocean 2 Coming As Soon As Next Month
Fri, Jan 16th, 2009
Helio, the "virtual" wireless carrier purchased by Virgin Mobile USA (VM) last year, plans to start selling the second edition of its flagship "Ocean" cellphone sometime this quarter, a company rep tells us. The phone could go on sale as soon as next month.
(According to Web reports, this is what it looks like -- photo from FCC documents. We've asked Virgin to confirm that this is the phone.)
The question: Will Ocean 2 be able to compete with smartphones like Apple's (AAPL) iPhone, Google (GOOG) Android-powered phones like the T-Mobile G1, RIM (RIMM) BlackBerry gadgets, or Palm's (PALM) forthcoming Pre?
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