Comments on: Favorites from CTIA Wireless 2007 http://www.slashgear.com/favorites-from-ctia-wireless-2007-304569/ Feeding Your Gadget and Tech Obsessions Fri, 13 Jul 2012 21:29:00 +0000 hourly 1 http://wordpress.org/?v=3.5.1 By: Rick Stregiem http://www.slashgear.com/favorites-from-ctia-wireless-2007-304569/#comment-19614 Rick Stregiem Sat, 31 Mar 2007 06:03:09 +0000 http://www.slashgear.com/favorites-from-ctia-wireless-2007-304569.php#comment-19614 This is the first year in many at CTIA that I was bored with everything I saw. Most of the newer handsets were going with a metallic or half-metallic looks. I applaud moving technology into a fashion-concious direction, it seemed to me like a me-too year all the way around. Even NTT DoCoMo’s concepts were nothing to spark the imagination of the future of wireless.

This was going to be my impression of 2007 wireless in general until I was lucky enough to catch a all-too brief glimpse of the Helio Ocean. Like mentioned above, in the brief time I saw it, I was impressed. The form factor is not all that novel and I am suspect to believe HTC and others have toyed with a dual slider with two-seperate keypads, but have thrown it out the window due to the size it adds. Helio took the chance, and did what they could to slim out the phone, oh I mean device.

Aside from the form-factor the messaging client, or messaging dashboard as they referred to it was the clincher. Helio was able to create an easy to use interface that allowed you access to all messaging, without becoming cumbersome.

I can’t wait to get my hands on it. Especially with the rumored Activesynch ability, it will become my work and play device.

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