How hot is this phone?

May 2, 2006 Author: Veronica | Filed under: toys

The Kickflip phone form Helio came out yesterday, and I think I might need to own it (especially since I’m a free agent from Verizon now… TAKE THAT VERIZON!). Anyhow, it sounds pretty hot, you can go read about it here. The only thing I’m worried about is the built in MySpace integration. Do I really need to have MySpace access all the time??

10 Responses for "How hot is this phone?"

Jonathan C May 2nd, 2006 at 8:47 am 1

if there was a way to remove the myspace crap, i’d get the phone in a heartbeat..
Kato May 2nd, 2006 at 9:32 am 2

“Do I really need to have MySpace access all the time??”

Clearly you are not a teenage girl. (Thank goodnesss).
Rodrigo May 2nd, 2006 at 11:00 am 3

Very cool phone. Stylish and has a lot of features. I love this kind of flip, although I never had something with that. Also:
1. You don’t need MySpace all the time.
2. My ringtone will be The Wikka Wikka Rap by MC Veronica, take that Bustha Rhymes…
Jonathan C May 2nd, 2006 at 1:39 pm 4

lol, that would be awesome rodrigo! we need a wikka-wikka ringtone
Dan May 2nd, 2006 at 4:04 pm 5

I thought it was very cool until you got to the part about the $85 per month minimum service plan. Yeesh.
eric f. May 3rd, 2006 at 5:11 am 6

And Sprint? They’re fine until you want to leave the country. Then it sucks to not have a GSM phone. I would go with Cingular.
Ericka May 3rd, 2006 at 8:47 am 7

Yea, I agree with Eric F. Sprint sucks. Has anybody used Sprint since they merged with Nextel? Maybe there isn’t as many dropped calls as there were when Sprint wasn’t with Nextel. Helio is the brain child of Scientologist Sky Dayton, who is also the founder of the company I work for, Earthlink. I get an employee discount, but I’m still a no go until they offer another back bone.
radiationman May 3rd, 2006 at 1:22 pm 8

Like the others said, it would be much cooler if it was a GSM phone instead of a CDMA phone… But still I’m not impressed. I’d much rather have a PocketPC phone over this. I’ve got the QTEK 9100 aka T-Mobile MDA and refuse to go back to a non PocketPC phone.
Bret May 3rd, 2006 at 2:21 pm 9

its minimum 40 a month for 500 minutes.
Ross C Brown May 5th, 2006 at 2:24 am 10

I can’t say I really like it. I like my cell to be basic and without MySpace!

That said, I do like the keypad.