Sure enough, it looks like the
Drift is just the first of a multi-phone partnership betwixt Samsung and Helio, with news coming out of phoneArena that the MVNO now appears signed up to get the A303. Though Helio's entire lineup to date has been at least fashion-conscious (with the Hero arguably the notable exception), the A303 might stand to be Helio's first fashion-
focused model on account of its magically disappearing touch-sensitive controls. Other features should include a decent 140MB of internal storage and a 1.3 megapixel cam. No word on release, but with all due respect to Samsung, this isn't really
the unreleased Helio we're most looking forward to at the moment.
Reader Comments (Page 1 of 1)
ShortFuse @ Feb 19th 2007 10:24AM
So helio purposely sells brick shaped phones?
Owen V @ Feb 19th 2007 11:14AM
This is the Samsung E-900 with a downgraded cam, more internal memory and the helio UI. Helio should have picked it up back in may when it came out, it was definitely one of the coolest phones of 2006.
KC @ Feb 19th 2007 11:40AM
Helio just never lived up to the hype...
This is yet another example Helio releasing Koreas old crap and not the high end phones that they promised...
Wow, so instead of the Chocolate, Helio users get Samsung's knockoff of the Chocolate a year later. Good stuff!
Note to Helio - every carrier has unique phones - even other MVNOs. To get the tech savvy crowd, you're gonna have to come up with something allot better.
Verizon has higher tier phones then anything the SK Telecom/Scientology alliance has brought us.
And then they wonder why they are not doing as good as they expected...
What happened to every Helio phone will have at least a (now standard) 2.0MP camera?
akatsuki @ Apr 15th 2007 11:43AM
Hmmm. I think Helio needs to work on their reports of horrible customer service which is what kept me from considering them. Also the phones are okay at best. They are nowhere near as cool as they should be for the market they want.