The dual slider phones Virgin Mobile Helio Ocean 2 Mobile Phone and Pantech Matrix Pro Mobile Phone are very similar in design and form factor. As a matter of fact, the former was also manufactured by Pantech. However, there is an ocean of differences between either handsets. A brief comparison is drawn here. Both these phones look like cute oval pebbles, with rounded edges. They slide one way to show a QWERTY keyboard and another way to disclose a numeric keypad. The screens of these mobile phones, vary slightly in size. The Virgin Mobile phone has a 2.6” display with...

Virgin Mobile Helio Ocean 2 Mobile Phone is a well designed, dual slide phone. Compact and attractive, this phone has rounded edges. It measures 4.65" by 2.28" by 0.81" and weighs 167g. It slides horizontally to reveal a QWERTY keyboard and slides vertically to show an alpha-numeric keypad. A 2.6 inch TFT screen which has a resolution of 240 x 320 pixels is sported. Almost 262k colours can be displayed. Automatic display rotation between portrait and landscape modes take place when the phone is tilted to use with the QWERTY keyboard and the numeric keypad. An optical sensor touch pad...