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"Editor's Rating: 6.7 Good

The good: The Helio Hero has a 2-megapixel camera, EV-DO support, tight MySpace integration, a great display, a beautiful user interface, and excellent audio quality. It also features Helio On Top, a dynamic newsfeed aggregator.

The bad: The Helio Hero suffers from a bulky design, and it lacks Bluetooth and instant-messaging options. Plus, its store doesn't offer music downloads at this time, and the Helio On Top aggregator doesn't allow the manual addition of feeds. It also has a hefty price tag.

Review courtesy of ABC News (click for full review)

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"Bottom Line:
The Helio Kickflip isn't ready for retail sale yet. Wait until they fix the bugs.

Pros:
Beautiful. Solid construction.

Cons:
Poor voice quality. No way to get photos off camera. HOT app disables phone function. Several other bugs...

Review Courtesy of PCMag (click for full Review)

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"The Helio Hero ($275 list) is the first MySpace phone. If you spend your life on the popular social-networking site, that should be enough to send you running for your credit card. If MySpace isn't YourSpace, though, Helio might be a tougher sell right now.

Helio is a new mobile-phone carrier, a mobile virtual network operator (MVNO) like Amp'd, Mobile ESPN and Virgin, that buys time from one of the four national networks (in this case, Sprint) and sells services under its own name. Helio is trying to appeal to The O.C. and Laguna Beach wannabes—teens and twentysomethings with cash to burn and who aren't too technical, but who value gaming, media, and social networking....

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"Well, Helio sent us our Kickflip in the mail today, and we can't really stop playing with it. The EV-DO is the usual walled garden media business; H.O.T. isn't bad, but won't let you add feeds; generally the apps work well and are easy on the eyes, even if they aren't always incredibly flexible. We'll go more into the software later (anything you want to know?) though, it's the hardware where the Kickflip really shines. We freaking can't stop flipping the thing open. It's like tactile crack, and we have to put it away under some papers to free our hands and get any work done, instead of engaging in the idle addictive sensation of nudging the screen and flipping it open, then closing it again with that little click.

Review courtesy of Engadget (click for full review)

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The second of two new handsets announced for the launch of US MVNO (Mobile Virtual Network Operator) Helio, the VK Mobile Kickflip is a spinner style device with a very Apple-like look to it due to its pearlescent white cover and minimalist style.

The Kickflip shares the same features as its brother for Helio's launch, the Hero, including a 2.0 megapixel camera, 262k color QVGA screen, 70MB of on board memory, and microSD expansion slot. The VK Mobile Kickflip swings open in either direction with a semi-automatic mechanism that requires only a slight nudge, or 'kick,' with your finger to open the handset.

Review Courtesy of the MobileBurn (click for full Review)

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