Helio announced their latest phone today, and it's a doozy. The Ocean is a dual-sliding smartphone, featuring a QWERTY keyboard that slides to the side and a numerical keypad that slides down.

The Ocean comes loaded with all the standard Helio features you know and love — GPS with Google Maps, unlimited 3G web access, and Helio's music store — with new goodies like IM integration to your contact list, a smart search that returns results from Google, Yahoo, and Wikipedia simultaneously, and an upgraded OS that works in both portrait and landscape.

If you've been looking to get a slick smartphone, this might just be what you've been waiting for. It'll be available for $295 with a 2-year contract from Helio this spring. — Adam Frucci

Helio, via Gizmodo