A funny thing happens when a major new handset's released on a big carrier: matching accessories come along for the ride. Cases, chargers, armbands, screen protectors, you name it -- anything to get you to double your spend before you walk out of the door with your multi-hundred-dollar phone. Of course, those accessories frequently aren't perfectly synced with the phone itself -- they ship a few days beforehand or after the fact, so stuff like this is bound to happen. In this particular case, the upcoming
Instinct HD is getting some silicone protection ahead of time courtesy of Best Buy, which should go well with those
invisibleSHIELDs you picked up a few weeks back. Meanwhile, the phone itself is expected
just a handful of days from now, so at least it's not
totally insane to start stocking up on accessories now.
[Thanks, Matt G.]
posted Sep 19th 2009 4:20PM
You know, with auto-focus camera being commonplace on cellphones (even my years old SE dumbphone has autofocus), these blurry pictures is just getting ridiculous. The notion that a "spy shot" or shot taken by "lay people" have to be extremely blurry is getting tiresome and silly.
I took the pic on my Curve 8330, so that's why it was blurry, no autofocus. I'll take a video when I go back if it would please all you doubters. :P
Or take it with the item further away (and crop it if necessary). I mean, come on, the $45.99 price tag in the background is nearly crystal clear...
Yes, I guess I could, but the problem was that I wanted the camera to see the HD part, and since the phone is a device from 2007, the camera isn't the best and it wouldn't be able to see it. And the reason the price tag is showing because once again, it is fixed focus, so it will focus more on farther away things.
The price tag on the right seems pretty in focus to me..
I took the pic on my Curve 8330, so that's why it was blurry, no autofocus. I'll take a video when I go back if it would please all you doubters. :P
It seems many people aren't familliar with the macro function of their camera.
@ the guy above this post
Clever name... T_T
If this phone really has Opera Mobile I will be upset.
Why would that be upsetting?
Oh, and according to phonenews.com, it will be Opera Mobile:
http://www.phonenews.com/instinct-hd-preview-sprint-titan-loaded-opera-mobile-deal-samsung-8760/
Silicone cases are really lame in my opinion. iSkin has a cool more tough rubbery case (the solo). I don't mind paying the twenty something dollars for the good stuff, I'm sure I can't find the same thing anywhere else.
Spell check sucks?
If only HTC and T-Mobile had this mindset. I can't find anything to go with my Touch Pro 2. its seems like they have tons of accesories for the MyTouch3G though. I dont get it. These phones were released two weeks apart and the My Touch gets all the glory and celebrity.
"You losers do realixe..."
Sent from your iPhone?
Hopefully this will be every bit the non web browsing, exchange sync failure, habitual lockup machine the original instinct was.
Ironically they had very few accessories, and only ONE case for the Zune HD when I picked mine up. WTF?!
http://www.zune.net/en-us/products/accessories/default.htm
Quite a few accessories here.
> Spell check sucks?
Well, there is one good spell check program, Spell Check Anywhere (SpellCheckAnywhere.Com). It adds spell checking to all programs. You might want to give that a try. I don't think it wont "suck.":)