washingtonpost.com — Sprint Nextel's Samsung Instinct bears a resemblance to Apple's iPhone. But the Instinct doesn't come with features to rival those of the iPhone. Nor does its price, $229.99 before a $100 mail-in rebate with a two-year contract, offer a big discount over of Apple's creation.
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bignahJul 5, 2008
Interesting, and the rumored data plans for it on bell aren't all that bad, but for me at least it isn't worth paying the $400 early termination fee i would have to to leave rogers.
neil1492Jul 5, 2008
I wouldn't mind an Instinct. It looks like a good alternative to the iPhone. My only problem is that it doesn't offer Wi-fi and you need to have a data plan. Bad idea if you live in an area that doesn't offer fast data. I am waiting for the new Treo 800w, that will be alittle more to my liking.
r3zonanceJul 7, 2008
"nokia is famous in europe +asia for its userfriendly interfaces"I really hope you accidentally forgot the "sarcasm" tag. Nokia's UIs suck ass. They are slow, clunky and there is never enough RAM to play back videos without a reboot (at least on the N95).
r3zonanceJul 7, 2008
So?
r3zonanceJul 7, 2008
"but with evdo rev a at 1.4-2 Mbps, who needs it? The new iphone is 3g but even at 2.8 times the speed of EDGE, it's only 1/3 the speed of sprint at its slowest"Don't know where you get your data from. But HSDPA (3G) operates at 1.8/3.6/7.2 MB/sec (although the spec does go down to 0.9MB/sec). Either way your figures are stupendously wrong.
mrbitchJul 30, 2008
@jo21, nice try but it looks like CasaMan ate your lunch. you got ZINGED man!
mrbitchJul 30, 2008
re: "Vista's search is nowhere near as good as Spotlight."Agreed, I have a Vista Ultimate and an XP installation (as well as Linux Mint) running on my MacBook.Vista search is far superior to the sad "search" that was part of the XP install - however OSX Spotlight beats the crap out of Vista's current search implementation (maybe MS will fix it in a service pack?)
mrbitchJul 31, 2008
@petard RE: "Vista's search feature was previewed long ago before it was in Tiger."Now you're just plain making s**t up. Google it and get back to me you idiot.
apickleOct 6, 2008
You can't say the Newton was the first in the game -- it was a failure and Apple gave up on it. Others (Microsoft, Palm, Blackberry, etc.) learned from their (Apple's) mistakes (yes, Apple can and does make many mistakes), and made the PDA a viable platform. These companies pioneered it, and basically... had every feature Apple ever had, before Apple even came up with it.Oh, but then Apple came out with the iPhone, and it was awesome and superb and only LESS capable than Windows Mobile/Blackberry/Symbian/Palm devices. Oh. Damn.
essencelordJul 15, 2009
Best idea, just don't go with them in the first place. I got a samsung instinct and almost instantly loathed it. SLOW internet. The tv feature came with only a few free channels (all of them sports or news). Gotta pay extra for more channels (which is largely more sport stuff). There are practically no apps to download for this phone. Most of the apps you can download are demos of some lame-o-game. Some of the third party apps you manage to download successfully wont work because there is no keypad! The camera quality is a mere 2mp. "Wow, I can almost make out your fuzzy face!" Oh, same issue with the Radio as with TV, only get a few free stations. It came with a youtube app, but good luck getting a video on that slow internet to load. The few websites I could load did not work well. Most problems revolved around submit buttons not working. There is also no 1 hand texting on this thing (not easily at least). Almost forgot, their tech support is very difficult to understand. Is there someone who speaks English?There's a couple good things about it though,Email easy and convenient...GPS works well...Sleek designsave yourselves and don't go with them! Meanwhile, I'm migrating to iPhone... sweet :)Instinct to iPhone as a bicycle is to the dodge tomahawk...