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Intellect Wireless has sued Helio, T-Mobile, U.S. Cellular and Virgin Mobile for patent infringement.

According to Intellect all four companies are violating its patents regarding image messaging. All patents belong to the company's founder Daniel Henderson, and are titled Picture Phone with Caller ID, and Method and Apparatus for Improved Paging Receiver and System.

Helio started offering its unlimited plan for $99 per month, as opposed to usual $145.

This is a limited time offer, so hurry up.

Helio Mysto is the latest addition the company's phone lineup.

It is a slider handset equipped with a 2Mpix camera, integrated GPS receiver, Bluetooth, music player and a microSD slot. The phone will be available only in Helio’s retail stores for $149 starting December 26, 2007.

The worldwide release is scheduled on January 2008.

Helio Player is the company's new media manager for Windows.

With this program you can manage and transfer various multimedia content including music, movies and images between current Helio handsets and a PC. It also allows downloading music bought on the phone to the PC and vice versa.

Buying music through the Player costs 99 cents per track, while purchasing music on the handset will cost you $1.

Helio Ocean received a new YouTube Mobile application that will allow users to watch, rate and comment, a well as upload new videos to the famous website directly from the handset.

You'll have the ability to share videos with people from your contact list, add files to My Favorites and to create new video playlists.

Helio added a TV Guide application to their handsets, so now anyone who watches TV will be able to find out what's coming up on his favorite channels.

The program schedule can also be shared with any interested person.

Helio TV Guide is available now for $2.

Great news from Helio!

The company announced a $50 discount on all its handsets including the Ocean ($199), the Fin ($79), and the Heat (free).

And with their $99 unlimited calling, text, and data plan ignoring this offer would be a crime.

Helio came up with an attractive limited time offer.

For just $99 a month subscribers will enjoy unlimited calling, email, IM, web browsing, text and multimedia messaging and more. The original price for this plan is $145, so this is likely an attempt to attract new customers.

To subscribe for the new unlimited plan you'll have to reactivate your contract for more 2 years.

Helio Drift becomes history.

It has a successor to take its place, the new upcoming Helio Mysto.

There is almost no info about the device yet, but we will keep you informed.

EarthLink, Inc. today confirmed the announcement by SK Telecom that the South Korean company will invest up to $270 million in Helio, their wireless voice and data services joint venture (http://www.helio.com ).

Helio continues to carve out a unique space in the wireless market. ... Built for consumers who have mobile at the center of their lives, Helio continues to post growth and usage metrics of its core services far above industry averages in most areas.