The Samsung Instinct takes touchscreen phones to the next level with a 3.1-inch touchscreen with haptic feedback, advanced features including Visual Voicemail, and access to Sprint's EV-DO 3G network--perfect for surfing the Web as well as downloading music and video from Sprint's Music Store and TV service. It also includes GPS capabilities for turn-by-turn navigation provided by the optional Sprint Navigation service. Other features include a 2-megapixel camera/camcorder, Bluetooth for handsfree communication and stereo music streaming, MicroSD memory expansion up to 8 GB, voice dialing capabilities, and up to 5.75 hours of talk time.
The Instinct's touchscreen keeps you in touch better than any other, with an interface designed to quickly take you right to where you want to go.
Sprint Service Options Supporting the EV-DO Rev. A high-speed data standard, Sprint's Mobile Broadband Network provides blazing fast speeds on the nation's largest mobile broadband network (based on covered square miles), covering more than 15,000 cities and 1,400 airports. With EV-DO Rev. A, peak download data rates increase to 3.1 Mbps and peak upload data rates increase to 1.8 Mbps; average download speeds improve to 600 kbps to 1.4 mbps and average uplink speeds increase to 350 to 500 kbps.
The Sprint Music Store enables you to buy, download, and then jam out wherever you are with new songs or old favorites. Offering a growing selection of more than 1.6 million songs, the store provides you two copies of each song--one for the phone and another for the PC, as well as the ability to burn songs to a CD using Windows Media Player. Save your songs to a memory card with a capacity that's right for you. Use the Sprint Music Store to listen to music while sending text messages, browsing the Web, or playing a downloaded game. And get over 30 channels of music--Hip Hop, Top Hits, Latin Pop, music videos and shows from NPR, Sporting News and more--treamed to your phone.
With Sprint TV, you can make your cell phone your always-on source for news, weather, sports and more. This comprehensive video service combines high-quality streaming audio and video from channels including the NFL Network, ABC, The Weather Channel, Fox Sports, E!, CNN, The Discovery Channel, and more.
Whether you use your finger or a stylus, the Instinct responds to every touch with a slight vibration.
Other features include a 2-megapixel camera/camcorder, Bluetooth music streaming, and MicroSD memory expansion up to 8 GB.
Nicely slim, the Instinct measures 0.5 inches thin and weighs 4.4 ounces.
This GPS-enabled phone provides optional access to Sprint Navigation for driving directions on your mobile phone--by voice and onscreen. Along the way, turn-by-turn directions will be announced in a clear voice and displayed on your phone. For example, Sprint Navigation will say, "Go 1.2 miles and turn right on Elm Street." As you approach the turn, you will hear, "Turn right on Elm Street." Sprint Navigation also provides proactive traffic alerts with one click re-routing. And it's easy to find restaurants, banks, cafes, hotels and more from over 10 million points of interest across the U.S.
With Sprint Mobile Email, you'll get easy access to your favorite home email services including AOL, Yahoo!, Gmail, and MSN/Windows Live Hotmail and more. And Sprint Mobile Email Work enables you to access email from corporate servers, including Microsoft Exchange 2000, 2003, 2007 and Lotus Notes Domino versions 6.0, 6.5 and 7.0 (with the latest software update).
Phone Features Named "Best in Show" in the third annual Emerging Technology (E-Tech) Award competition in April at CTIA Wireless 2008, the innovative Samsung Instinct speeds up the user experience like no other touchscreen phone and brings your most-used applications and contacts within a single finger tap. With the Instinct, you don't have to listen to voicemail anymore. Just one quick glance at the Visual Voicemail display and you'll know who called and when--and even delete messages without having to listen to them first. The device also offers a Speech to Action button providing many functions using speech activation for calling, texting, picture messaging, traffic, movie, sports, news, weather and search.
It has a high-tech look with large, vibrant touchscreen a 240 x 432-pixel resolution and support for 262K colors for excellent depth. And whether you use your finger or a stylus, the Instinct responds to every touch with a slight vibration. This localized tactile feedback, called haptics, transforms the virtual QWERTY keypad and other screen interactions into a sensory experience.
This sleek, stylish device offers three dedicated keys on the lower portion of the device to make operation of the device very straightforward and easy to navigate--phone, back and home. The phone key always takes you back to essential voice calling and features including speed dial, visual voicemail, contacts and the dial pad. The back key is a consistent way to take a step back in the operation. The home key provides quick access to the four menus of functionality included in the user interface:
With Live Search, you can use that GPS technology to search for the nearest gas station by location, price or even grade of gasoline.
Favorites provides one-touch access to the things you do most, making customization and personalization extremely simple. Web sites, TV channels, text messaging friends and much more can be saved in the Favorites menu so the items used most are always at the user's fingertips.
Main includes applications such as Messaging, Voicemail, GPS Navigation and more.
Fun takes you to Music, TV, photos, games and more.
Web provides a fast, real Internet experience and all things Web-related, including weather and news.
This phone provides Bluetooth version 2.0 wireless connectivity, and includes profiles for communication headset, handsfree car kits, audio/video remote control, and printing. With the A2DP Bluetooth profile, you can stream your music to a pair of compatible Bluetooth stereo headphones. When connected to a Bluetooth device, caller information for incoming calls will be spoken through the Bluetooth device. Decide to answer the call without ever looking at your phone.
The 2-megapixel camera can capture images up to 1600 x 1200 pixels for prints up to 8 x 10 inches. It features a 2x digital zoom, "fuzzy picture" warning that lets you know if you're about to take a bad picture, and easy viewing of photos by simply swiping your finger across the screen to move from one photo to the next. It also includes a video camcorder function that lets you record video clips up to 2 MB (approximately 6 minutes) for sending via messaging or for as long as you have space on an inserted MicroSD memory card for saving.
The music player is compatible with MP3, WMA, AAC/AAC+, and KOZ digital audio formats, and it will play in the background even while sending text messages, browsing the Web, or playing a downloaded game. This phone is also compatible with 72-chord polyphonic ringtones, and it includes a vibrate silent mode.
The phone is compatible with text (SMS) and multimedia (MMS) messaging, as well as POP3 personal email accounts. It includes XT9 predictive text entry (the new version of the T9), with such features as a word prediction list and spelling correction that spots transposed letters and missed keys, as well as instant integration into all applications on the device.
Other features include:
Live Search for Sprint, powered by Microsoft, provides easy access to directory information on-the-go, GPS-enabled directions, interactive maps and one-touch click to call access
Store up to 600 contact entries, each with fields for five phone numbers, an email address, a web site, and notes
Organizational tools: Calendar, calculator, alarm clock, world clock, stopwatch and notepad
Speech to Action feature let's you place calls using your voice, store voice reminders, and record voice memos right on your device
Sprint Mobile Sync: Load contact info to your phone and sync with PC, any time you add, edit or remove contacts it auto updates the back-up PC contact list.
Speaker-Independent Voice Dialing: Say the name of any entry in your phone book and the number is dialed automatically without using the keypad. This feature is speaker-independent, so there is no need to train the phone to respond to any one person's voice. Receive an audible status report of your phone's coverage, signal strength, and battery strength.
Hearing Aid Compatibility = M3/T3
Bluetooth version 2.0 with the following profiles: A2DP (stereo music streaming), AVRC (remote control), HFP (hands-free car kits), HSP (communication headsets), DUN (dial-up networking), FTP (file transfer), OPP (object push for business cards, calendar items, and pictures), PBA (transfer contacts)
Vital Statistics The Samsung Instinct weighs 4.4 ounces and measures 4.6 x 2.2 x 0.5 inches. Its 1000 mAh lithium-ion battery is rated at up to 5.75 hours of talk time. It runs on the 800/1900 CDMA/EV-DO frequencies.
Customer Reviews:
Avg. Customer Rating: 3.5 / 5.0
LOCKS UP, Not many features, But GREAT price:
I have loved computers since they started making home PCs 25 yrs ago. I do web design for a living and am very familiar with computers so when this phone became available for Sprint I had to have it. Well, first it will take you a while to get used to scrolling on it (in the meantime it will drive you nuts, especially if you have a lot of #s). Then you'll discover it locks up often. It just freezes, u can't do anything, U can't even turn it off. Sometimes it unfreezes sometimes you have to pull... more info
Instinct integrates well with the services...:
I am very satisfied and impressed with the Instinct. I particularly like how well the phone accesses the online services like live search, navigation, email, etc. etc.
1. The instinct has a very nice shape and weight. I previously had a palm 700p and this is so much nicer in shape and feel.
2. I really like the voice recognition feature. This is a very unusual feature and not one you'll find by default on the iphone. You can use this for everything from "call lucy mobile" to call a contact to... more info
Did not meet my expectations:
The Bad : Battery Life (grade : F)- short, I can go through 2-3 batteries in a day easily, also once the battery reaches a certain level, no functions work on the device except call effectively shortening the battery functional life even further Music Player (grade : F)- has quirks that really inconvenience me. rescans the SD card each time you go to the playlist, I only have 345 songs loaded and it has delay time to scan all these songs each time. I imagine if I had more songs it would be even... more info
The best phone I've had but...:
This is a great phone, but there are a few things that could really turn this phone into an amazing phone. 1. Better music player: The phone comes with a 2gb card which is great for storing music. However I have put on 2gb's worth of music and the phone takes forever to load, probably about 6-8 minutes. I thought this was only going to be the first time it read the music, but that is definitely not the case. Everytime I open the music player it has to go throught this whole process again. I tried... more info
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