NaviGadget

Helio just announced Ocean, a dual slider phone with integrated GPS. What’s dual slider? Slide horizontally and you’ll get the qwerty keyboard, slide vertically and it’ll reveal the numeric keypad. Helio Ocean will be available this Spring for $295. Just like the other GPS-enabled Helio phones we talked about, Ocean also takes full advantage of Google Maps enabling you to get driving directions right there on your phone. No need for extra devices such as bluetooth GPS receivers or any extra software. Just make sure you get the All-In membership so you don’t pay extra for data charges. In addition to driving directions you also have access to local businesses.

Other things you can do with the GPS is geotag your pictures you can take with the on-board 2MP digital camera.

Ocean’s 2.0 megapixel camera will take advantage of Helio UP, which lets users take a picture with their device, tag it with metadata including a title, description, keywords and location information and upload it directly to Helio Album, Helio’s photo service. Helio UP is GPS-enabled, giving users the option of attaching their GPS coordinates to their photos.

Oh, and did we mention you can use microSD cards in your Helio Ocean upto 2GB? And thanks to the dedicated music processor you can enjoy your tunes for 15 hours on a single battery charge.

• Helio Ocean 2 does GPS navigation
• Helio Mysto
• Helio Fin mini review
• Helio Fin works with GPS enabled Google Maps and Garmin Mobile
• Helio Heat with GPS enabled Google Maps

This entry was posted on Monday, March 26th, 2007 at 11:28 am and is filed under gps navigation, phones. You can follow any responses to this entry through the RSS 2.0 feed. You can leave a response, or trackback from your own site.