Virgin Mobile USA Helio Ocean 2 Phone Features & Pricing Confirmed

Having already previously confirmed that the Helio Ocean 2 is to soon be
made available to its customers back in January, Virgin Mobile USA have
now added a little flesh to the bones of the initial announcement -
which seemed rather more concerned with the fact that a certain Britney
Spears (who?) is to be roped in to launch the Helio Ocean 2 - with
detail concerning the phone's features as well as the handset’s
pricing.
Billed as a ‘3G Social Networking Powerhouse’ offers access
to Facebook, MySpace (et al) with 1 click through connect’ whilst
also offering users the ability to text, IM and mail via the likes of
Gmail, Yahoo!, MSN and Hotmail (Mail for Microsoft Exchange) - and,
though it’s not as if you cannot access these range of features on
a vast range of handsets it’s the degree of integration and ease
of access that makes the Helio Ocean 2 the ‘3G Social Networking
Powerhouse’ it purports to be.

Of course, it almost goes without saying (considering the obvious
intended market) that the Helio Ocean 2 also comes with integrated MP3
player and will happily play ball with YouTube whilst the phone’s
GPS paired with Google Maps functionality is also on offer.

The Helio Ocean 2, which sports a 2.6 240 x 320 TFT display, a 2MP
camera, stereo Bluetooth and comes with a (not especially generous)
512MB microSD card bundled in will be offered, in red only initially,
from February 12 by Virgin Mobile USA for just shy of $150 with a black
Helio Ocean 2 being made available to those with a particular distaste
for red cell phones later in the year.