Filed under: Handsets, Pantech, Helio, Virgin Mobile, EV-DO, MVNOs, CDMA

This is one of those classic tales of joy and sorrow — a tale of a phone that could’ve been Helio’s undisputed flagship model of the year, a phone that could’ve saved the scrappy little MVNO from Virgin Mobile’s gaping maw (alright, it couldn’t have even come close to doing that, but we’re running with it for the drama factor). On the high side, we’ve now heard confirmation straight from the source that the Ocean 2 is, in fact, a real device, but the problem is that it won’t be coming out until next year because they “want to put it out when it’s the best it can be.” It’s sure looking just about the “best it can be” from the videos we’ve seen recently — and frankly, we think they should just throw this out there while kicking off development on an Ocean 3 ASAP — but it looks like the decision’s already been made, and we all know there’s no such thing as moving a release date forward.

[Thanks, Blade G]

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