Entries from Earthling - EarthLink blog tagged with 'Ocean'
How To Send Photos From A Helio To Flickr, With Geotags
Back in April, I reported on how to smoothly send photos to your Flickr account via a Helio Drift. Thanks to a recent Helio UP software upgrade, you can now set your Helio device (Drift, Heat, Ocean, or Fin) to automatically upload your photos to Flickr complete with location tags, anytime you send them to Helio UP. What that means is that now your photos will appear on Flickr's world map interface, as expandable dots in the place where you took them. I've always wanted to do this, and it just makes sense as a feature given that Helio's devices have GPS functionality built-in.
New Helio Fin Plus Pun Watch
This morning Helio released its newest device, the superthin, magnesium-cased Fin. At 0.45 inches (or 11.43 millimeters if you prefer), it's the thinnest clamshell-style device in the U.S. market.
What's A Business Device Anymore?
Business tools don't look matte speckled gray anymore and don't firewall off your needs as a "person" from your needs as a "business person," thank goodness. Helio's addition of Exchange now just gives people who use Exchange Server a way to integrate more of their streams of contact into the same communications system. It doesn't magically become a "business device," nor was it initially a "non-business device."
Ocean In One Hand, iPhone In The Other
Weekend blog entries are fairly rare for me, but I wanted to write up some thoughts about my first day with the iPhone while they're fairly fresh in my mind. Now that I have both an Ocean and an iPhone in my hands, I'm well equipped to start thinking about how they stack up side-by-side.
Fittingly Wild Ending To A Wild iPhone Day
By around 5:00 pm, with the AT&T store doors shuttered, and everyone waiting expectantly in line, people started to notice that the entire shopping center we were in had lost power. After lots of murmuring in the crowd, the rumor was that a nearby car had struck a light pole and knocked out power around us. After several nervous visits from AT&T store employees out to the line, the store manager came out and informed us that Georgia Power was working on the problem, and they expected it to be fixed at 7 pm. He was very apologetic and appreciative of the time we'd all been waiting. And we all hunkered down to wait again.
iPhoning It In Today
The Earthling team, which pretty much comprises my manager Ken Womack and myself, are heading to an undisclosed location in the Metro Atlanta area this morning to try and secure a spot in line to nab an iPhone for EarthLink. Once we feel secure that we're well positioned to take one home today, I'll disclose that location and let you know what the line looks like, in case you're in Atlanta and thinking about spending some time standing around doing not much of anything.
UPdate To Helio Ocean Apps
If you're an Helio Ocean user, there are a couple of updates to the onboard apps you ought to take a look at. These haven't been officially announced and according to Crunchgear that will happen on Monday, but I've seen them publicly available on my own Ocean, set them up, and given them a quick test drive.
What Goes On At A Bot Party?
New Helio Ocean spot:
Ocean Works And Plays Well With Others
I've been using a Helio Ocean for about 36 hours now, and so far I'm very impressed with the evolution of the interface from the Kickflip to the Drift and now to the Ocean. It's usually a good indicator that things things are where they should be when you naturally discover new features on your regular path through the software. As a messaging device, I'm finding it eliminates some needless steps and does lots of things smartly. By coincidence Max and Doug from Helio were in our office for meetings yesterday so I got to geek out about it for most of the afternoon. Here's a quick spin through some of the things I've I heart about it so far:
Helio Ocean: Creation
Helio's new TV ad -- How the Ocean came about:
The Ocean: Now Available
As of early this morning, the Helio Ocean is now available for purchase via 1-888-88-HELIO or www.helio.com. If you're near Santa Monica, Palo Alto, San Diego, Denver, or New York, you can enjoy the instant gratification of stopping by a Helio retail store and picking up one up in person. Oceans will be in GameStop and EBGames stores next week, and then in authorized Helio retailers shortly thereafter. It sells for $295.
Details From The Ocean User Guide
I found some neat little details in the guide and wanted to share them here. These are nice interface and functionality details that would be tough to find room for in the big-picture coverage of the Ocean:
Helio Ocean Pre-Release Round-up
A few lucky gadget reviewers received Helio Ocean devices before they're available to the public(soon!), and they've been busy. Today Gizmodo shares part one of a video walkthrough:
Gizmodo Asks For Your Vote: Ocean Or iPhone
Knowing what you know today, are you more likely to buy the Helio Ocean or the Apple iPhone?
Announcing the Helio Ocean
This morning Helio announced the details of their new device featuring a slide-out QWERTY keyboard, the Ocean. It's a dual-slider, meaning that if you slide it one way, a numerical keypad slides out from the bottom, and if you slide it the other way, a nice QWERTY keypad slides out from the side. Even with the double slide action, it's both lighter and thinner than the Sidekick 3, at 4.33” x 2.20” x .86”.
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