Samsung Instinct

Samsung’s Instinct may be the best stab at the coveted title of iPhone killah this CTIA. The 3.1-inch touchscreen phone has localized haptic feedback, plus three hard navigation keys. If it sounds familiar, it’s because we’ve seen versions of it before, but only in Korea. Mind you, this is not the LG Prada-ripoff Samsung F480, which had a much smaller touchscreen.

The Instinct rocks EV-DO Rev A and GPS, in both cases besting what’s in the fruit phone. And then content and app wise, Sprint’s own wares are basically swapped in for Apple’s: Sprint Music Store, Navigation, TV, Visual Voicemail and a full HTML web browser—everything except a la carte music included in the $100 monthly subscription fee. EVERYTHING. On top of that, its customizable homescreen is amazing (and actually customizable, unlike other similar phones).

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The Instinct will be available exclusively via Sprint (so don’t go looking for this phone over at Verizon) for now. Some of the more interesting features on the Samsung Instinct include:

• “Voice to Action” button which provides functions using voice activation - including call, text, picture messaging, traffic, movie, and sports
• Surf the web at broadband speeds
• Support for Sprint Navigation with GPS enabled audio and visual turn-by-turn driving directions
• Live Search powered by Microsoft - includes GPS enabled directions, interactive maps, and one-touch click to call access
• Sprint TV
• Sprint Exclusive Entertainment
• Sprint Music Store
• Pocket Express - up to date information on sports, weather, news, movies, and other options customized to the user’s zip code

Feeling a little geeky? Here are the technical specs to the phone:

• CDMA EV-DO Rev A network support
• Measures 4.57 x 2.17 x 0.49 inches and weighs 4.4 oz
• 3.1 inch TFT LCD display with a resolution of 240 x 432. Also features haptic touch screen
• 2 megapixel digital camera
• Video recording and streaming with support for H.264 and MPEG4
• Support for MP3, AAC, AAC+m, MIDI, QCP, and WMA
• Bluetooth 2.0 with stereo Bluetooth profile support
• WAP 2.0, XHTML, HTML, WML, WMLS capable browser
• PictBridge support
• Phonebook
• 2 GB microSD memory card
• USB Charging Cable
• Two standard 1,000 mAh Lithium Ion Batteries
• Each battery support 5.75 hours of talk time

The phone features three dedicated touch keys on the lower portion of the device to make using the phone extremely easy. The three keys are for phone, back, and home. The phone key takes you back to the phone features of course; the back key always lets you go back a step, and the home brings you access to the four menus of functionality which includes:

• Favorites - one touch access to the things you do the most
• Main - applications including Messaging, Voicemail, GPS Nav etc
• Fun - Music, TV, photos, games, and more
• Web - All things internet including weather and news

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