May 2, 2006
Helio handsets seen as blogging tools first, phones second
Helio Inc. is a joint venture of Internet service provider EarthLink Inc. and Korea's SK Telecom. It will start selling two phones Tuesday positioned primarily as blogging tools and only secondarily as phones, reports the AP.
"The Helio phone will be tightly connected to MySpace, the social networking site that has become hugely popular among teenagers and twenty-somethings.
Users will be able to take photos with the phones and post them directly to their MySpace pages, read and write MySpace mail and participate in discussions.
Begging by cell phone
After laying out the money for a phone and a plan, buyers may be tempted to use an unusual feature of the service: begging by cell phone. Users can ask other users to buy them games, music or videos that they can download to the phone. Games cost $5.99, while music videos cost $2.49.
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