Helio Mysto Reviewed
Posted by Justin B. on January 16th, 2008 at 01:52 AM
Well - The Mysto’s officially here. What do we think?
We’ve actually been sitting on this review for a few days, hoping that any applications unique to Mysto (namely TellMe) might become available a few days prior to launch to give reviewers a chance to write’em into their reviews. No such luck.
With Mysto launching later today, we’ve decided to go ahead and publish the review sans TellMe details. We’ll be amending the review in all the proper places once we’ve gotten a chance to play with any applications that launch this morning with Mysto. Update: We’ve been whispering sweet voice-recognized nothings to TellMe for the past day, and have updated the review with our experiences.
Got an itching topic we didn’t cover in the review? Let us know in the comments of this page, we’ll try to clear it up.
January 16th, 2008 at 5:49 am
cant wait to get mine on friday
January 16th, 2008 at 8:03 am
okay my favorite quote, thanks for making this review entertaining…”All the ladies (and guys who happen to like tight pants), rejoice: It’ll fit in your pocket without making it look like your smuggling a loaf of bread in your pants.
January 16th, 2008 at 12:47 pm
Peetre01…
This is random but were you ever on ‘modmymoto’ forums? I just thought i remember that alias somewhere.
Oh, and, I’ve confirmed the Fry’s rumor… about some people walking out without with a device at ‘new member price’ without signing a contract. It’s a LIE i tell you. Here’s why…
The telecom department must make you a ‘quote’ (a paper with customer information like name, address… and item serial numbers etc) and will not let you walk the store with the ‘boxed phone’ in hand. The sales person will walk it to the registers for you. Only if you activate your phone or have a really good friend who doesn’t give a shit will they put in the ‘adjustment’ field of the quote -$dollar amount to properly fit the ‘new member price’. Done =)
But, such a beautiful phone at that. Too bad 320 isn’t worth a phone unchanged from “NO TEXT RINGTONES”. LOL
January 16th, 2008 at 4:30 pm
Man I want some of those OS niceties on my Ocean. A TODO list would be awesome, new browser too, etc =/
January 16th, 2008 at 11:59 pm
I think this is the first published review of the Mysto.
I got mine on release day after trading in my Ocean (still within 30-day trial) and have to say I’m glad I did. I miss the QWERTY keyboard a bit but the size and features of the Mysto make up for that, not to mention that it seems less buggy than the Ocean. It really is amazing how much they packed into this tiny, lightweight phone.
The TellMe app is pretty neat. When you launch it, it gets your GPS location and uses that to find out which city you are in. Then you hold down the Talk key to tell it what you want to find, release the Talk button, and it brings up a list of companies based on what you said. It groups each company into one entry in the search results, so you select that company’s entry to find all of its locations, and the list is ordered by approximate distance from where you are at. I’ve played with it a little and it seems rather interesting and may be worth the $2.99/month after the 2-month trial period.
Thanks for the great review!
January 18th, 2008 at 8:46 am
Tellme??? That sounds familiar… There used to be a 411 service called tellme. You could call a toll free number and it would greet you with a friendly “tell~me~” After a quick google search, my suspicion was correct.
Is the Tellme feature on Mysto made by the 411 service of the same name??? (who, apparently, sold their soul to Microsoft)…
January 23rd, 2008 at 10:38 am
I have an ocean right now and really there only two things i dont like about it. Its big and it gets pretty damn slow at times. I hate when I click down on the d-pad and then down 2 more times to go to my inbox to read a new text then have to sit and wait for it to catch up. Before the ocean I had just some basic LG phones from Verizon although they were boring and had no features they were still able to stay caught up to my fingers. So basically what I wanna know is how fast is it? Does it lag like the ocean? Or is the delay just a counter product of being smaller and cooler?