Helio has just released the Ocean, their new 3G dual-slider. This smartphone costs $295 at Helio Stores and online. Starting May 21 it will be available at selected GameStop and EB Games locations and after that at thousands of additional retail stores across the U.S.

Ocean's key features are specified below.

Helio Ocean features:

• 2.4" 260K-color hi-res QVGA display
• 2Mpix camera with Helio UP option (adding metadata to photos)
• External stereo speakers
• Bluetooth connectivity
• 200 MB internal memory expandable to 2GB via a microSD card
• USB Mass Storage Mode
• Audio/Video playback (MP3, AAC and WMA, MPEG4 and H.264)
• Both alphanumeric and QWERTY keypads
• E-mail support: Yahoo! Mail, AOL Mail, MSN Hotmail, Gmail, Helio Mail and EarthLink email
• Instant messaging: Yahoo! Messenger, AOL's AIM Service and Windows Live Messenger
• Integrated HTML browser
• Helio Music downloads