Archive for the ‘Helio’ Category

In a press release this morning, Virgin Mobile USA has announced that it has agreed to purchase Helio from Earthlink and SKTelecom in an all stock deal for a total of 13 million shares and two seats on the board of directors for a total value of $39 million or $8.50 per share.
This deal includes [...]

Engadget Mobile has revealed what it claims as the first image and details of the heretofore unannounced successor to the Helio Ocean multimedia device manufactured by Pantech.
The new device is expected to have 1GB of internal memory up from the 256MB of the original model along with a microSDHC expansion slot, a 3 megapixel camera [...]

Update: SkTelecom spokespeople have rejected claims stating that the carrier was looking to purchase Virgin Mobile in order to pump money into the MVNO and purchase Helio from itself.
The company has stated that the initial report by the Dow Jones and Reuters was groundless.  The company has also confirmed that the South Korean carrier still [...]

Helio and its partners providing POP/IMAP email access (which include Yahoo, Google, Microsoft, and AOL) have added push email capability to the Fin, Ocean, and Mysto devices which feature the Ultimate Inbox application.
The functionality can be enabled by checking email from any supported email account, which the program will then prompt for the user to [...]

Helio has begun to offer the Opera Mini web browser to users as a free download on Helio devices. This is yet another chapter in Helio’s ongoing Walled Garden fiasco.
Opera Mini gives the user a full web browsing experience on their device. One of the main benefits of the browser is the fact that it [...]

T – Mobile, U.S. Cellular, Virgin Mobile USA and Helio have been sued by Intellect Wireless Inc. for patent infringement. The lawsuit has been filed in the U.S. District Court for the Northern District of Illinois.
The Texas based company, Intellect Wireless, has accused the companies for infringing wireless image messaging patents. The three patents in [...]

Helio is attracting customers today with the introduction of their new top tier plan: $99.99 for unlimited voice minutes, data and SMS text messaging along with other phone dependent capable services. This plan was previously priced at $145. It is not clear if this is a limited time offer, or a permanent plan change. [...]

Helio has officially released the Samsung Mysto, the CDMA version of the U600 released in Europe last year.
The phone was first released last month to Korean customers and was offered to English-speaking customers in limited quantities beginning on December 26th in Helio retail stores.
The phone features a 2.2 inch QVGA display, GPS support, Bluetooth 2.0 [...]

Helio has revealed their replacement for the Drift on the Korean-language Helio powered by SKTelecom page.
The Mysto is the CDMA version of the Samsung U600 slider sold in Europe with a QVGA display, 2 megapixel camera, HTML browser, microSD expansion slot, media player, Bluetooth with stereo audio support, and GPS support.
The Korean-language version is currently [...]

SK Telecom, the second largest wireless carrier in South Korea has announced that it has invested an additional $70 million from a stated total investment of $200 million in handset and marketing development into Helio, the loss-generating joint venture started by SK Telecom and internet service provider Earthlink in 2005.
SK Telecom had previously stated that [...]