Review: Helio Fin
All calling shortcuts work as you would expect them to. When in a call, the right soft key is mute and the left key opens the options menu. Curiously the first choice is to make the mic louder, the second turns on speaker phone. No one ever asked us to speak up, so we're not sure why turning the mic up is the first option.
Although Helio's online contact manager can hold much more data, the Fin only can use 5 phone numbers, 1 email address and birthday per contact.
Sorting through contacts is difficult, and difficult to explain. You cannot search from the home screen like you can on the Ocean. Instead you hit the Contacts softkey and are taken to a search box. There you have to triple tap your contact's name and the matching ones are weeded out. But there's a problem - the system searches for a match anywhere in the name, including in the middle of a word, and then sorts those results alphabetically. It does not give any preference to matches that fall at the beginning of a name. For example if you're searching for Lewis Miner and start typing "Le" names likes Karen Ableton and Danielle Steele will both show up first because they have an "le" in their names. This becomes more annoying the more contacts you have.
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