An affordable cellphone that looks cool will always go far and this is proven by the Helio Ocean which is inexpensive at a selling price of $149.99 but with strings attached courtesy of Virgin Mobile which requires a two-year contract. This is a great communicator phone as it allows you to send emails and messages easily by merging all your address books from different sources.

The Helio Ocean looks much like a thick face compact measuring 4.7 x 2.3 x 0.8 inches at weighing 5.9 ounces. The phone is dual-directional as it opens two ways—slide the screen up when you’re using the phone keypad for the phone features or slide the screen sideward to reveal a QWERTY keyboard for sending email and other messages.

You also get instant notice when you get new messages both for email and instant messaging. Amazing enough, this phone allows you to view PDF via the built-in Picsel Viewer.

The Helio Ocean cellphone is a friendly gadget for those who do social networking on a regular basis. Thanks to the Helio Connect Web service you get your Facebook, Flickr, YouTube and MySpace updates in one page.

This is clearly a cellphone made for web browsing although the browser is admittedly slow. It can however display pages ala desktop, open multiple windows and the pages zoom and rotate.