I was checking out the helio phones and they seem very nice. Price wise they are pretty high, but if the service is good than i could dig it! Anybody have the service currently? If so, which phone? Pros/Cons? Thanks guys..

4.6

 

yeh theyre lowest rate plan is 65 a month. screw that, ill stick with nextel. **** is balla

 

I'm buying this phone for my girl..and i can get the hookup on the phones..pricewise...but i want to know how good the service is....

 

As you can see pretty much all of the United States is covered which means Helio is using a CDMA signal and roaming off of other CDMA tours like Alltel, Verizon, Sprint, and most of your local companies, for example Metro PCS for you and Ntelos for in my area. Most of the new companies coming out now are becoming another one of the service providers to offer nationwide coverage with no roaming. All of these phone service providers pretty much have a contract with all the big names in cell phones allowing them to use their towers to better coverage.

Now if you ever don't get signal somewhere and you see a Cingular, T-Mobile, or Nextel phone does then don't get worried because they run on their own signals.

Cingular & T-Mobile - GSM Signal
Nextel - IDEN Signal

Go into your nearest Helio provider and ask them if their service is CDMA and I bet they will say yes. Also ask them if their phones are dualband, triband, or quadband. This means that the phone have that many different signals on it so if you have a dualband phone then you can use CDMA and GSM towers. Most phones have not quite made it into the dualband and up range yet but in a couple years it will all be like that.

It appears that Helio is using some setup where they are using more than one band because you can see that you can't have all your features in most areas.

Oh yeah, the light blue is everywhere you can talk. The dark blue is everywhere where you can surf the web, message, talk, and the rest of their features like myspace and stuff. The 3G areas are just their specific areas where you get EVERYTHING and the white is where their is no service at all.


HOLY ****, I didn't even mean to get into all of that. Hope it helped anyways...

 

OMG Ben, you are a *** just for writing that. :gtfo:

 

I'm telling you, I went into a trance. That's what I get for having a job where I have to explain that **** all day.

 

Oh well, job = money and money = fun.

 

myspace phone = gay.


IDEN network ftw.

btw i think nextel is getting rid of the iden network, or sprint is gettign rid of their satalites. cus i know on october first they will "officially" merge. that way you can have the awesome sprint phones, but the nextel service/walkie talkie.

 

Yes and then no. I'm not quite sure so don't take my word for it but all Federal and state law is getting it's own signal and I think it's Nextel's. So Nextel users will be switched over to the Sprint Walkie-Talkie service.

Like I said, don't my word for it. It could be the exact opposite way around but I do know that the Law is getting it's own signal and frequency.