In keeping with our latest round of reviews, we bring to you a phone from Helio, the new up-and-coming mobile service that was launched in April. The Helio "Hero", the top-of-the-line phone from the new service, is an EVDO-enabled multimedia powerhouse that’s designed to fit all your audio, video, and gaming needs with one easy-to-use phone.

Sporting a 2 megapixel camera with a 4x digital zoom and a built-in flash, the Helio take extremely clean pictures that you can save or share at will. The camera can also take video on the go, in the aforementioned MPEG-4 video format. These videos can also be shared with others who might be interested in what you just recorded. Finally, there's the gaming service.

Raising the bar over other, competing cellular networks, Helio offers mobile gaming with true 3D graphics, assisted by a built-in graphics co-processor that helps the main CPU process audio, video, and graphics, allowing for a far smoother multimedia experience that ever before. Games will be available from such companies as EA Mobile, THQ Wireless, SkyZone, Airborne Entertainment, and others.

The Hero's impressive array of abilities doesn't stop there, either. Helio has partnered with MySpace which allows Helio subscribers to access their mailboxes, bulletins, blogs, profiles, and photos on-the-go, right from their Helio device. In addition, Helio subscribers will be able to gain access to additional MySpace features, such as an increased photo storage capacity, the ability to upload photos directly from a Helio device, and a status indicator that will appear on the user's MySpace page letting others know that that the user is available via their Helio phone. The Hero also sports voice memo recording, text messaging, multimedia messaging, video-on-demand, mobile Flash, and caller ID.

Battery life on the Hero is decent; users can expect 3 hours of talk time and up to 8 days of standby time. All this is delivered on Helio's EV-DO service, which offers broadband speeds wirelessly over its network.

The Hero is one of two Helio handsets currently available, and is the more expensive of the two. Both feature the same QVGA screens, removable memory, and a 2 megapixel camera as noted above. The Kickflip, however, does not include the graphics coprocessor or the duplex stereo sound, and features a white swiveling design as opposed to the Hero's black sliding design. The only other difference is price; the Hero model, being the more expensive phone, retails for $275, while the Kickflip retails for $250. Both are currently available on Helio's website.