Helio has launched the Helio Ocean by Samsung. The Ocean is the world's first dual-slider combining a traditional numeric keypad and a separate full QWERTY keyboard in a single device.

Ocean merges Instant Messages, text messages, picture messages and emails from all the major portals, ISPs and even corporate Exchange servers, in one location.

A 3G media and content powerhouse, Ocean also delivers full over-the-air music downloads, video-on-demand, a high-resolution camera, an HTML browser, MySpace on Helio, GPS-enabled Google Maps for mobile, Buddy Beacon and much more.The Ocean slides vertically to reveal a traditional alphanumeric keypad for comfortably making calls, sending quick texts or surfing the web, and horizontally to reveal a separate full QWERTY keyboard suitable for the heaviest of emails or texts, web searches and full screen landscape viewing of crisp images and video.

Ocean sports a huge:

• 2.4-inch, 260K color high-resolution QVGA display viewable in both portrait or landscape modes, external stereo speakers
• 2.0 megapixel camera with digital zoom and flash for photos and over two hours of continuous video recording
• Bluetooth® for wireless voice
• stereo Bluetooth® for untethered music and videos
• 200MB internal memory expandable via microSD to over 2GB
• USB Mass Storage Mode for drag-and-drop sideloading of content.
  
• Supports an array of audio and video formats including MP3, AAC and WMA audio, and MPEG4 and H.264 video, all delivered over a nationwide high speed 3G network.

Ocean also carries a special chip designed to optimize music playback for an estimated 15 hours of continuous audio, blazing fast sync speeds and support for both subscription and individually purchased music. Ocean even allows users to browse the Web or their music library without interrupting music playback. Whether listening to tracks downloaded over-the-air from Helio Music, playing 3D or multiplayer games, taking pictures on the go and posting them to MySpace, or utilizing built-in GPS technology for Google Maps for mobile or Buddy Beacon, Ocean keeps Helio members in touch with their friends better than ever before.