http://www.engadget.com/2008/06/18/samsung-instinct-available-june-20th-for-129-99-strings-attach/ Engadget Comments for Samsung Instinct available June 20th for $129.99, strings attached http://www.engadget.com/media/feedlogo.gif http://www.engadget.com en-us Copyright 2012 Weblogs, Inc. The contents of this feed are available for non-commercial use only. Blogsmith http://www.blogsmith.com/http://www.engadget.com/2008/06/18/samsung-instinct-available-june-20th-for-129-99-strings-attach/http://www.engadget.com/2008/06/18/samsung-instinct-available-june-20th-for-129-99-strings-attach/Jun 18th 2008 9:52AMhttp://www.engadget.com/2008/06/18/samsung-instinct-available-june-20th-for-129-99-strings-attach/http://www.engadget.com/2008/06/18/samsung-instinct-available-june-20th-for-129-99-strings-attach/I mean, your pretty much getting unlimited plans anyway when you get a phone like this right?

It's not an issue for me. I went through this neat company that gave me 10% of every monthly bill. Unlimited plans starting at $70 mean $63 for me. That even beats my corporate discount. They told me that if volume goes up in sales, they'll reach new "tiers" with Sprint and I'll get 15 or even 25% off and automatically apply it to my bill... I'm not sure if I believe that bit, but it'll be cool if it happened... ]]>Jun 18th 2008 10:24AMhttp://www.engadget.com/2008/06/18/samsung-instinct-available-june-20th-for-129-99-strings-attach/http://www.engadget.com/2008/06/18/samsung-instinct-available-june-20th-for-129-99-strings-attach/Jun 18th 2008 11:27AMhttp://www.engadget.com/2008/06/18/samsung-instinct-available-june-20th-for-129-99-strings-attach/http://www.engadget.com/2008/06/18/samsung-instinct-available-june-20th-for-129-99-strings-attach/Jun 18th 2008 12:35PMhttp://www.engadget.com/2008/06/18/samsung-instinct-available-june-20th-for-129-99-strings-attach/http://www.engadget.com/2008/06/18/samsung-instinct-available-june-20th-for-129-99-strings-attach/Jun 18th 2008 1:02PMhttp://www.engadget.com/2008/06/18/samsung-instinct-available-june-20th-for-129-99-strings-attach/http://www.engadget.com/2008/06/18/samsung-instinct-available-june-20th-for-129-99-strings-attach/Jun 18th 2008 9:51AMhttp://www.engadget.com/2008/06/18/samsung-instinct-available-june-20th-for-129-99-strings-attach/http://www.engadget.com/2008/06/18/samsung-instinct-available-june-20th-for-129-99-strings-attach/Jun 18th 2008 10:06AMhttp://www.engadget.com/2008/06/18/samsung-instinct-available-june-20th-for-129-99-strings-attach/http://www.engadget.com/2008/06/18/samsung-instinct-available-june-20th-for-129-99-strings-attach/Jun 18th 2008 10:33AMhttp://www.engadget.com/2008/06/18/samsung-instinct-available-june-20th-for-129-99-strings-attach/http://www.engadget.com/2008/06/18/samsung-instinct-available-june-20th-for-129-99-strings-attach/http://www.wholesaleg8.com/index.asp?PageAction=VIEWPROD&ProdID=1112&HS=1 has prada / ipod nano "simple" appearance and htc like touchflo interface... not to mention it has wifi and winmo 6.0.... instinct will be hit but not a smash.. plus, the "strings attached" kind of is not so attractive...]]>Jun 18th 2008 12:46PMhttp://www.engadget.com/2008/06/18/samsung-instinct-available-june-20th-for-129-99-strings-attach/http://www.engadget.com/2008/06/18/samsung-instinct-available-june-20th-for-129-99-strings-attach/Jun 18th 2008 12:59PMhttp://www.engadget.com/2008/06/18/samsung-instinct-available-june-20th-for-129-99-strings-attach/http://www.engadget.com/2008/06/18/samsung-instinct-available-june-20th-for-129-99-strings-attach/
From what I can see, you can't change the icons. But come on, they're icons.

The network is still not ready for the Instinct.. I guess it will be ready on the day of the release]]>Jun 18th 2008 1:49PMhttp://www.engadget.com/2008/06/18/samsung-instinct-available-june-20th-for-129-99-strings-attach/http://www.engadget.com/2008/06/18/samsung-instinct-available-june-20th-for-129-99-strings-attach/
Because an American Football would have been stupid.]]>Jun 18th 2008 3:41PMhttp://www.engadget.com/2008/06/18/samsung-instinct-available-june-20th-for-129-99-strings-attach/http://www.engadget.com/2008/06/18/samsung-instinct-available-june-20th-for-129-99-strings-attach/
Mind you so might the iPhone 3G:

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=-hOX6nECSwg
]]>Jun 18th 2008 10:07AMhttp://www.engadget.com/2008/06/18/samsung-instinct-available-june-20th-for-129-99-strings-attach/http://www.engadget.com/2008/06/18/samsung-instinct-available-june-20th-for-129-99-strings-attach/Jun 18th 2008 10:47AMhttp://www.engadget.com/2008/06/18/samsung-instinct-available-june-20th-for-129-99-strings-attach/http://www.engadget.com/2008/06/18/samsung-instinct-available-june-20th-for-129-99-strings-attach/Jun 18th 2008 12:24PMhttp://www.engadget.com/2008/06/18/samsung-instinct-available-june-20th-for-129-99-strings-attach/http://www.engadget.com/2008/06/18/samsung-instinct-available-june-20th-for-129-99-strings-attach/Jun 18th 2008 9:53AMhttp://www.engadget.com/2008/06/18/samsung-instinct-available-june-20th-for-129-99-strings-attach/http://www.engadget.com/2008/06/18/samsung-instinct-available-june-20th-for-129-99-strings-attach/Jun 18th 2008 10:13AMhttp://www.engadget.com/2008/06/18/samsung-instinct-available-june-20th-for-129-99-strings-attach/http://www.engadget.com/2008/06/18/samsung-instinct-available-june-20th-for-129-99-strings-attach/
samsung is obviously copping the iphone, which is circa 2007 i believe]]>Jun 18th 2008 10:48AMhttp://www.engadget.com/2008/06/18/samsung-instinct-available-june-20th-for-129-99-strings-attach/http://www.engadget.com/2008/06/18/samsung-instinct-available-june-20th-for-129-99-strings-attach/But after you buy it you can only use it on sprint, and who would want to do that. ]]>Jun 18th 2008 9:57AMhttp://www.engadget.com/2008/06/18/samsung-instinct-available-june-20th-for-129-99-strings-attach/http://www.engadget.com/2008/06/18/samsung-instinct-available-june-20th-for-129-99-strings-attach/
And I still am trying to get out of my contract. Actually, I'm looking forward to having the joy of talking to Sprint's atrocious customer service today to try to get out of my contract due to horrible service in my apartment.]]>Jun 18th 2008 10:01AMhttp://www.engadget.com/2008/06/18/samsung-instinct-available-june-20th-for-129-99-strings-attach/http://www.engadget.com/2008/06/18/samsung-instinct-available-june-20th-for-129-99-strings-attach/Jun 18th 2008 10:07AMhttp://www.engadget.com/2008/06/18/samsung-instinct-available-june-20th-for-129-99-strings-attach/http://www.engadget.com/2008/06/18/samsung-instinct-available-june-20th-for-129-99-strings-attach/Jun 18th 2008 10:23AMhttp://www.engadget.com/2008/06/18/samsung-instinct-available-june-20th-for-129-99-strings-attach/http://www.engadget.com/2008/06/18/samsung-instinct-available-june-20th-for-129-99-strings-attach/Jun 18th 2008 11:31AMhttp://www.engadget.com/2008/06/18/samsung-instinct-available-june-20th-for-129-99-strings-attach/http://www.engadget.com/2008/06/18/samsung-instinct-available-june-20th-for-129-99-strings-attach/
SERO / Sprint works perfectly fine in my city/state, and most places i've travelled to, and even if/when it doesn't, SERO allows for FREE ROAMING.

SERO plans absolutely DESTROY anything any other carrier has to offer.

iPhone with ATT is a garbage deal compared to phones on SERO.]]>Jun 18th 2008 12:45PMhttp://www.engadget.com/2008/06/18/samsung-instinct-available-june-20th-for-129-99-strings-attach/http://www.engadget.com/2008/06/18/samsung-instinct-available-june-20th-for-129-99-strings-attach/
I really usually am a supporter of Sprint, and if I had good signal I'd probably continue to be (aside from CS), but my apartment is on the edge of service where it locks to Sprint with 0 or 1 bars, frequently drops calls, and won't let me roam without manually changing every time.

Put it this way... without SERO, Sprint has NOTHING going for them that I know of that would make me want to use them over another carrier. It's SERO that credits them at all.]]>Jun 18th 2008 1:32PMhttp://www.engadget.com/2008/06/18/samsung-instinct-available-june-20th-for-129-99-strings-attach/http://www.engadget.com/2008/06/18/samsung-instinct-available-june-20th-for-129-99-strings-attach/Jun 18th 2008 2:17PMhttp://www.engadget.com/2008/06/18/samsung-instinct-available-june-20th-for-129-99-strings-attach/http://www.engadget.com/2008/06/18/samsung-instinct-available-june-20th-for-129-99-strings-attach/Jun 18th 2008 4:04PMhttp://www.engadget.com/2008/06/18/samsung-instinct-available-june-20th-for-129-99-strings-attach/http://www.engadget.com/2008/06/18/samsung-instinct-available-june-20th-for-129-99-strings-attach/Jun 18th 2008 4:25PMhttp://www.engadget.com/2008/06/18/samsung-instinct-available-june-20th-for-129-99-strings-attach/http://www.engadget.com/2008/06/18/samsung-instinct-available-june-20th-for-129-99-strings-attach/Jun 18th 2008 9:57AMhttp://www.engadget.com/2008/06/18/samsung-instinct-available-june-20th-for-129-99-strings-attach/http://www.engadget.com/2008/06/18/samsung-instinct-available-june-20th-for-129-99-strings-attach/
But something tells me it will just be a decent phone OS.]]>Jun 18th 2008 10:53AMhttp://www.engadget.com/2008/06/18/samsung-instinct-available-june-20th-for-129-99-strings-attach/http://www.engadget.com/2008/06/18/samsung-instinct-available-june-20th-for-129-99-strings-attach/Jun 18th 2008 10:57AMhttp://www.engadget.com/2008/06/18/samsung-instinct-available-june-20th-for-129-99-strings-attach/http://www.engadget.com/2008/06/18/samsung-instinct-available-june-20th-for-129-99-strings-attach/
And don't get me wrong, I'd love to see Android live up to the hype as current mobile operating systems leave much to be desired but I suspect we are going to see a lot of disappointed people once Android is actually released.

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And hopefully if it has WIFI, do tethering wirelessly ]]>Jun 18th 2008 9:59AMhttp://www.engadget.com/2008/06/18/samsung-instinct-available-june-20th-for-129-99-strings-attach/http://www.engadget.com/2008/06/18/samsung-instinct-available-june-20th-for-129-99-strings-attach/Jun 18th 2008 10:02AMhttp://www.engadget.com/2008/06/18/samsung-instinct-available-june-20th-for-129-99-strings-attach/http://www.engadget.com/2008/06/18/samsung-instinct-available-june-20th-for-129-99-strings-attach/Jun 18th 2008 11:37AMhttp://www.engadget.com/2008/06/18/samsung-instinct-available-june-20th-for-129-99-strings-attach/http://www.engadget.com/2008/06/18/samsung-instinct-available-june-20th-for-129-99-strings-attach/http://digg.com/hardware/Iphone_Killer_Samsung_Instinct_available_June_20th_for_129]]>Jun 18th 2008 9:59AMhttp://www.engadget.com/2008/06/18/samsung-instinct-available-june-20th-for-129-99-strings-attach/http://www.engadget.com/2008/06/18/samsung-instinct-available-june-20th-for-129-99-strings-attach/Jun 18th 2008 10:57AMhttp://www.engadget.com/2008/06/18/samsung-instinct-available-june-20th-for-129-99-strings-attach/http://www.engadget.com/2008/06/18/samsung-instinct-available-june-20th-for-129-99-strings-attach/Jun 18th 2008 10:00AMhttp://www.engadget.com/2008/06/18/samsung-instinct-available-june-20th-for-129-99-strings-attach/http://www.engadget.com/2008/06/18/samsung-instinct-available-june-20th-for-129-99-strings-attach/Jun 18th 2008 12:06PMhttp://www.engadget.com/2008/06/18/samsung-instinct-available-june-20th-for-129-99-strings-attach/http://www.engadget.com/2008/06/18/samsung-instinct-available-june-20th-for-129-99-strings-attach/Jun 18th 2008 3:09PMhttp://www.engadget.com/2008/06/18/samsung-instinct-available-june-20th-for-129-99-strings-attach/http://www.engadget.com/2008/06/18/samsung-instinct-available-june-20th-for-129-99-strings-attach/
It's expandable to 8 gigs on an Micro sd....anything beyond 8 gigs it cannot contain.

Unless all it takes is a software update, but it can only handle 8 upon release.]]>Jun 18th 2008 4:49PMhttp://www.engadget.com/2008/06/18/samsung-instinct-available-june-20th-for-129-99-strings-attach/http://www.engadget.com/2008/06/18/samsung-instinct-available-june-20th-for-129-99-strings-attach/Jun 18th 2008 11:50PMhttp://www.engadget.com/2008/06/18/samsung-instinct-available-june-20th-for-129-99-strings-attach/http://www.engadget.com/2008/06/18/samsung-instinct-available-june-20th-for-129-99-strings-attach/
thats just plan wrong. the instinct can handle micro sdHC which means when anything above 8GB comes out it will still work with the phone, no software updates. your just confused because all that's out is 8GB as the biggest, so that's what samsung put as the limit. :P

@umeadi
you are completely right, EVDO Rev A is WAY faster that AT&T 3G, and there 3G is only available in select cities, EVDO is everywhere (except Montana :( ! )]]>Jun 19th 2008 12:39AMhttp://www.engadget.com/2008/06/18/samsung-instinct-available-june-20th-for-129-99-strings-attach/http://www.engadget.com/2008/06/18/samsung-instinct-available-june-20th-for-129-99-strings-attach/
You know you also have Free Roaming through Verizon, you can just set that manually while you are in your appartment]]>Jun 18th 2008 10:05AMhttp://www.engadget.com/2008/06/18/samsung-instinct-available-june-20th-for-129-99-strings-attach/http://www.engadget.com/2008/06/18/samsung-instinct-available-june-20th-for-129-99-strings-attach/Jun 18th 2008 5:13PMhttp://www.engadget.com/2008/06/18/samsung-instinct-available-june-20th-for-129-99-strings-attach/http://www.engadget.com/2008/06/18/samsung-instinct-available-june-20th-for-129-99-strings-attach/
The Instinct is a great phone for $129. It does stuff that the iphone can't do like video capture, MMS, etc. Is it an iphone killer.... No]]>Jun 18th 2008 10:09AMhttp://www.engadget.com/2008/06/18/samsung-instinct-available-june-20th-for-129-99-strings-attach/http://www.engadget.com/2008/06/18/samsung-instinct-available-june-20th-for-129-99-strings-attach/
Even though I'm an AT&T subscriber and gung-ho about the iPhone 3G, I welcome the competition by Sprint. In the end, the customer wins, so I'm glad that SOME companies are actually putting in effort this time around. I'm sitting here with shrinking groceries and paying the same amount, and getting nickel-and-dimed by every other company, it's disgusting.]]>Jun 18th 2008 10:44AMhttp://www.engadget.com/2008/06/18/samsung-instinct-available-june-20th-for-129-99-strings-attach/http://www.engadget.com/2008/06/18/samsung-instinct-available-june-20th-for-129-99-strings-attach/
It really doesn't matter what Sprint does with the Instinct. It doesn't even matter that it has more features than the iPhone. People are only going to want to know where and how soon they can purchase an iPhone 3G. People want the real deal and not some counterfeit iPhone.]]>Jun 18th 2008 11:51AMhttp://www.engadget.com/2008/06/18/samsung-instinct-available-june-20th-for-129-99-strings-attach/http://www.engadget.com/2008/06/18/samsung-instinct-available-june-20th-for-129-99-strings-attach/Jun 18th 2008 10:11AMhttp://www.engadget.com/2008/06/18/samsung-instinct-available-june-20th-for-129-99-strings-attach/http://www.engadget.com/2008/06/18/samsung-instinct-available-june-20th-for-129-99-strings-attach/
For the sake of argument though the ad is still very valid. EVDO-Rev A is faster than 3G. iPhone has no video. iPhone has no mobile TV. The only thing that is no longer valid relates to GPS. ]]>Jun 18th 2008 11:44AM