Mysto: Helio's new slider now available
Helio's newest handset, the Samsung-made Mysto, is now available to anyone with the desire and $149 (with contract) or $320 (without). I actually got to play with a Mysto awhile back under "promise not to tell" embargo and came away impressed. The handset feels super solid and luxurious, packing a nice heft (not heavy, just substantial) into a slim body and offering up basically all of Helio's services and applications.
Mysto features that front-mounted jog dial cropping up in all of Sammy's latest releases, and also rocks the GPS, EV-DO data, and other media, Web, and social networking goodies Helio maniacs get all excited about. This one's available right now, so browse over to Mysto's product page or your local Helio dealer to check it out. It's no Ocean, but it's a nice alternative if Ocean's bulk gets you down. Unlocked episode 1 with Noah from PhoneDog.com. Apple unveils the iPhone SDK and announces iFund. Unlimited plans take center stage with Sprint and Helio leading the way. Hands-on with the Helio Mysto and Palm Centro for Sprint. What’s Good: All kinds of multimedia, Web, and location-based features; Super slim profile; Speedy EV-DO access; GPS; 106MB Internal Memory
What’s Not Good: Touch sensitive controls are very finicky; End key in an odd place; Call quality only so-so; Camera not as good as original U600
Bottom Line: Samsung brings their Ultra U600 sliderphone to the US in the form of the Helio Mysto. While Mysto’s thin profile is sexy and Helio’s myriad features are excellent, this handset’s... Slim’s still in, and sliderphones don’t get much slimmer than Samsung’s Ultra U600. Samsung and Helio brought a CDMA version of the U600 to the States in the form of Mysto, Helio’s successor to the Drift. Mysto packs just about all of Helio’s many, many features and services into a sleek, pocketable form factor that offers an alternative to the chunky, QWERTY-packing Ocean. In fact, I could see Mysto becoming popular as a second handset for Ocean owners, especially... Mysto is one sleek, thin cell phone, and it looks great. Measuring just over 12mm from front to back, Mysto will fit in all but the tightest of pockets and won’t weigh you down when you head out the door with it in tow. The front panel of the phone features a gorgeous 2.2” QVGA display that’s really one of the best screens you’ll find on a slider right now. Beneath the display is a navigational array built around a circular four way D-pad that looks like a jog dial but... Helio phones make use of Sprint’s CDMA cellular network, and Mysto is compatible with Sprint’s EV-DO network for high speed data usage, as well. I tested Mysto in the San Francisco Bay Area and found voice call performance to be so-so. Signal strength was fine, but calls were too often staticky and/or muffled sounding. When voice quality issues arose, they were more often of the callers having trouble hearing me ilk than the other way around.
The handset worked well... Helio offers an amazingly comprehensive set of multimedia, Web-based, and location-based services for their devices. Their new $99/month Unlimited All-In plan offers one of the best values in the industry if you make heavy use of messaging and data services in addition to voice calling on your mobile device, and their use of Sprint’s EV-DO network ensures speedy data transfer for all of that Web surfing, streaming media, and location-based services activity.
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