http://www.engadget.com/2009/09/24/sprint-temporarily-loses-its-mind-wants-250-for-samsung-instin/ Engadget Comments for Sprint temporarily loses its mind, wants $250 for Samsung Instinct HD 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/2009/09/24/sprint-temporarily-loses-its-mind-wants-250-for-samsung-instin/http://www.engadget.com/2009/09/24/sprint-temporarily-loses-its-mind-wants-250-for-samsung-instin/Sep 24th 2009 10:35AMhttp://www.engadget.com/2009/09/24/sprint-temporarily-loses-its-mind-wants-250-for-samsung-instin/http://www.engadget.com/2009/09/24/sprint-temporarily-loses-its-mind-wants-250-for-samsung-instin/
negative, ghostWRITER.

Please don't confuse a classic TV show from the 90s with a crappy Nicholas Cage movie.]]>Sep 24th 2009 10:51AMhttp://www.engadget.com/2009/09/24/sprint-temporarily-loses-its-mind-wants-250-for-samsung-instin/http://www.engadget.com/2009/09/24/sprint-temporarily-loses-its-mind-wants-250-for-samsung-instin/
"Negative, ghostRIDER."

please don't confuse your apparent love of 80s TV shows with actual, real knowledge of pop culture, r-tard.]]>Sep 24th 2009 11:04AMhttp://www.engadget.com/2009/09/24/sprint-temporarily-loses-its-mind-wants-250-for-samsung-instin/http://www.engadget.com/2009/09/24/sprint-temporarily-loses-its-mind-wants-250-for-samsung-instin/
I wanted the TP2 for a long time, but I cant justify the sprint price, so ok, HTC Hero here i come.]]>Sep 24th 2009 11:19AMhttp://www.engadget.com/2009/09/24/sprint-temporarily-loses-its-mind-wants-250-for-samsung-instin/http://www.engadget.com/2009/09/24/sprint-temporarily-loses-its-mind-wants-250-for-samsung-instin/Sep 24th 2009 11:42AMhttp://www.engadget.com/2009/09/24/sprint-temporarily-loses-its-mind-wants-250-for-samsung-instin/http://www.engadget.com/2009/09/24/sprint-temporarily-loses-its-mind-wants-250-for-samsung-instin/
I question the education of every person who thinks Sprint and T-Mo charge too much for phones. I also have to call into question how much AT&T and Verizon are paying the Engadget staff to avoid reporting the TCO of this phone compared to the TCO of a phone on their networks.]]>Sep 24th 2009 12:56PMhttp://www.engadget.com/2009/09/24/sprint-temporarily-loses-its-mind-wants-250-for-samsung-instin/http://www.engadget.com/2009/09/24/sprint-temporarily-loses-its-mind-wants-250-for-samsung-instin/
The last thing that pisses me off is that due to an error at the warehouse processing a return of my previous(defective) handset I lost my eligibility in the system. So I have to buy thru telesales so they can do a manual override. Which means I also have to wait till Oct 11 to get this...if I really want it...F you Sprint. I'm a loyal 8 year long "premier" customer who is seriously tired of getting crapped on. Seems like no matter how patiently I try to be I get accidentally or in some instances($250 intentionally) crapped on by you guys.

Oh well, I might still buy this phone, I dont know if I can swallow my pride enough to do it. That or I might just buy a Pre, or take the $200 hit and buy a *F*ing iphone for NINTEY NINE DOLLARS.]]>Sep 24th 2009 1:55PMhttp://www.engadget.com/2009/09/24/sprint-temporarily-loses-its-mind-wants-250-for-samsung-instin/http://www.engadget.com/2009/09/24/sprint-temporarily-loses-its-mind-wants-250-for-samsung-instin/I like the Instinct, I thought it was pretty nice when I tried it, my partner has one, but $250 for those crappy specs? You've really got to be kidding me. I had a friend buy the HTC Touch Pro2 from Sprint yesterday, best phone ever, heck worth the money, but that's the TP2. Instinct "HD", hell no. Like Engadget, neither the screen size or resolution is "HD"-like, so what gives?

I'm going to like, get some nachos. Call me when you come back to your senses.]]>Sep 24th 2009 2:41PMhttp://www.engadget.com/2009/09/24/sprint-temporarily-loses-its-mind-wants-250-for-samsung-instin/http://www.engadget.com/2009/09/24/sprint-temporarily-loses-its-mind-wants-250-for-samsung-instin/Sep 24th 2009 4:52PMhttp://www.engadget.com/2009/09/24/sprint-temporarily-loses-its-mind-wants-250-for-samsung-instin/http://www.engadget.com/2009/09/24/sprint-temporarily-loses-its-mind-wants-250-for-samsung-instin/
Why not bend them over for round two....]]>Sep 24th 2009 10:35AMhttp://www.engadget.com/2009/09/24/sprint-temporarily-loses-its-mind-wants-250-for-samsung-instin/http://www.engadget.com/2009/09/24/sprint-temporarily-loses-its-mind-wants-250-for-samsung-instin/
went with the palm pre and not looking back. which btw cost me only 80 dollars at best buy. who the hell would pay 250 for this (presumed historically) piece of garbage.]]>Sep 24th 2009 10:52AMhttp://www.engadget.com/2009/09/24/sprint-temporarily-loses-its-mind-wants-250-for-samsung-instin/http://www.engadget.com/2009/09/24/sprint-temporarily-loses-its-mind-wants-250-for-samsung-instin/Sep 24th 2009 10:36AMhttp://www.engadget.com/2009/09/24/sprint-temporarily-loses-its-mind-wants-250-for-samsung-instin/http://www.engadget.com/2009/09/24/sprint-temporarily-loses-its-mind-wants-250-for-samsung-instin/Sep 24th 2009 10:49AMhttp://www.engadget.com/2009/09/24/sprint-temporarily-loses-its-mind-wants-250-for-samsung-instin/http://www.engadget.com/2009/09/24/sprint-temporarily-loses-its-mind-wants-250-for-samsung-instin/phone looks ugly too]]>Sep 24th 2009 10:56AMhttp://www.engadget.com/2009/09/24/sprint-temporarily-loses-its-mind-wants-250-for-samsung-instin/http://www.engadget.com/2009/09/24/sprint-temporarily-loses-its-mind-wants-250-for-samsung-instin/150 credits should be enough]]>Sep 24th 2009 12:34PMhttp://www.engadget.com/2009/09/24/sprint-temporarily-loses-its-mind-wants-250-for-samsung-instin/http://www.engadget.com/2009/09/24/sprint-temporarily-loses-its-mind-wants-250-for-samsung-instin/
If you wanna compete with other carriers who offer touchscreen phones, PRICE YOUR DAMN TOUCHSCREEN phones the same!!
Although the pricing will do more with what Samsung wants, rather than Sprint, still..why should I choose THIS over a $99 iphone 3G or a $199 Palm Pre??]]>Sep 24th 2009 10:36AMhttp://www.engadget.com/2009/09/24/sprint-temporarily-loses-its-mind-wants-250-for-samsung-instin/http://www.engadget.com/2009/09/24/sprint-temporarily-loses-its-mind-wants-250-for-samsung-instin/Sep 24th 2009 10:50AMhttp://www.engadget.com/2009/09/24/sprint-temporarily-loses-its-mind-wants-250-for-samsung-instin/http://www.engadget.com/2009/09/24/sprint-temporarily-loses-its-mind-wants-250-for-samsung-instin/Sep 24th 2009 10:40AMhttp://www.engadget.com/2009/09/24/sprint-temporarily-loses-its-mind-wants-250-for-samsung-instin/http://www.engadget.com/2009/09/24/sprint-temporarily-loses-its-mind-wants-250-for-samsung-instin/Sep 24th 2009 10:41AMhttp://www.engadget.com/2009/09/24/sprint-temporarily-loses-its-mind-wants-250-for-samsung-instin/http://www.engadget.com/2009/09/24/sprint-temporarily-loses-its-mind-wants-250-for-samsung-instin/
THE INSTINCT OS IS TERRIBLE! THEY ARE PRICING IT SO THAT SPRINT CUSTOMERS NEVER BUY IT AND AS A RESULT STAY WITH SPRINT!

they DONT WANT their customers to buy the instinct HD because they would LEAVE SPRINT on pure principle after using a Pre or iPhone in comparison! lol

save yourself from the terrible java based Faux-OS and get Pre (Pre FTW!)]]>Sep 24th 2009 10:54AMhttp://www.engadget.com/2009/09/24/sprint-temporarily-loses-its-mind-wants-250-for-samsung-instin/http://www.engadget.com/2009/09/24/sprint-temporarily-loses-its-mind-wants-250-for-samsung-instin/Sep 24th 2009 11:16AMhttp://www.engadget.com/2009/09/24/sprint-temporarily-loses-its-mind-wants-250-for-samsung-instin/http://www.engadget.com/2009/09/24/sprint-temporarily-loses-its-mind-wants-250-for-samsung-instin/
Still think this is a cool phone though.]]>Sep 24th 2009 10:44AMhttp://www.engadget.com/2009/09/24/sprint-temporarily-loses-its-mind-wants-250-for-samsung-instin/http://www.engadget.com/2009/09/24/sprint-temporarily-loses-its-mind-wants-250-for-samsung-instin/Sep 24th 2009 10:58AMhttp://www.engadget.com/2009/09/24/sprint-temporarily-loses-its-mind-wants-250-for-samsung-instin/http://www.engadget.com/2009/09/24/sprint-temporarily-loses-its-mind-wants-250-for-samsung-instin/Sep 24th 2009 10:44AMhttp://www.engadget.com/2009/09/24/sprint-temporarily-loses-its-mind-wants-250-for-samsung-instin/http://www.engadget.com/2009/09/24/sprint-temporarily-loses-its-mind-wants-250-for-samsung-instin/Sep 24th 2009 11:30AMhttp://www.engadget.com/2009/09/24/sprint-temporarily-loses-its-mind-wants-250-for-samsung-instin/http://www.engadget.com/2009/09/24/sprint-temporarily-loses-its-mind-wants-250-for-samsung-instin/Sep 24th 2009 10:49AMhttp://www.engadget.com/2009/09/24/sprint-temporarily-loses-its-mind-wants-250-for-samsung-instin/http://www.engadget.com/2009/09/24/sprint-temporarily-loses-its-mind-wants-250-for-samsung-instin/Sep 24th 2009 10:52AMhttp://www.engadget.com/2009/09/24/sprint-temporarily-loses-its-mind-wants-250-for-samsung-instin/http://www.engadget.com/2009/09/24/sprint-temporarily-loses-its-mind-wants-250-for-samsung-instin/Sep 24th 2009 10:53AMhttp://www.engadget.com/2009/09/24/sprint-temporarily-loses-its-mind-wants-250-for-samsung-instin/http://www.engadget.com/2009/09/24/sprint-temporarily-loses-its-mind-wants-250-for-samsung-instin/
It reminds me of those stupid TV commercials for "Riddex" in which the announcer always said, "...with DIGITAL technology!!"]]>Sep 24th 2009 5:28PMhttp://www.engadget.com/2009/09/24/sprint-temporarily-loses-its-mind-wants-250-for-samsung-instin/http://www.engadget.com/2009/09/24/sprint-temporarily-loses-its-mind-wants-250-for-samsung-instin/Sep 24th 2009 10:54AMhttp://www.engadget.com/2009/09/24/sprint-temporarily-loses-its-mind-wants-250-for-samsung-instin/http://www.engadget.com/2009/09/24/sprint-temporarily-loses-its-mind-wants-250-for-samsung-instin/Sep 24th 2009 10:55AMhttp://www.engadget.com/2009/09/24/sprint-temporarily-loses-its-mind-wants-250-for-samsung-instin/http://www.engadget.com/2009/09/24/sprint-temporarily-loses-its-mind-wants-250-for-samsung-instin/Sep 24th 2009 11:04AMhttp://www.engadget.com/2009/09/24/sprint-temporarily-loses-its-mind-wants-250-for-samsung-instin/http://www.engadget.com/2009/09/24/sprint-temporarily-loses-its-mind-wants-250-for-samsung-instin/Sep 24th 2009 11:12AMhttp://www.engadget.com/2009/09/24/sprint-temporarily-loses-its-mind-wants-250-for-samsung-instin/http://www.engadget.com/2009/09/24/sprint-temporarily-loses-its-mind-wants-250-for-samsung-instin/
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I don't need to read the press release, I've been testing this phone for months. It still does playback of HD streams on the device (how else do you think it would output them over the HDMI connection?) the screen is just not HD resolution aka it's downsampling it. The point is the device has the processing power to handle HD streams which is exactly what I said- thus you don't need to reencode video.

Remember when it was a big deal that people found out the iPhone 3GS had the processing power to handle 720p/and some 1080p streams? Same thing.]]>Sep 24th 2009 2:50PMhttp://www.engadget.com/2009/09/24/sprint-temporarily-loses-its-mind-wants-250-for-samsung-instin/http://www.engadget.com/2009/09/24/sprint-temporarily-loses-its-mind-wants-250-for-samsung-instin/Sep 24th 2009 10:59AMhttp://www.engadget.com/2009/09/24/sprint-temporarily-loses-its-mind-wants-250-for-samsung-instin/http://www.engadget.com/2009/09/24/sprint-temporarily-loses-its-mind-wants-250-for-samsung-instin/
Except... the Zune HD is a dedicated media player with a gorgeous interface to handle media. People buy media players to play media. Have you ever tried playing media on an Instinct?]]>Sep 24th 2009 10:59AMhttp://www.engadget.com/2009/09/24/sprint-temporarily-loses-its-mind-wants-250-for-samsung-instin/http://www.engadget.com/2009/09/24/sprint-temporarily-loses-its-mind-wants-250-for-samsung-instin/Sep 24th 2009 11:28AMhttp://www.engadget.com/2009/09/24/sprint-temporarily-loses-its-mind-wants-250-for-samsung-instin/http://www.engadget.com/2009/09/24/sprint-temporarily-loses-its-mind-wants-250-for-samsung-instin/Sep 24th 2009 11:02AMhttp://www.engadget.com/2009/09/24/sprint-temporarily-loses-its-mind-wants-250-for-samsung-instin/http://www.engadget.com/2009/09/24/sprint-temporarily-loses-its-mind-wants-250-for-samsung-instin/
And you're absolutely in the minority, if you buy smartphones, and keep them for longer than 2 years.]]>Sep 24th 2009 11:12AMhttp://www.engadget.com/2009/09/24/sprint-temporarily-loses-its-mind-wants-250-for-samsung-instin/http://www.engadget.com/2009/09/24/sprint-temporarily-loses-its-mind-wants-250-for-samsung-instin/
I seriously think that Sprint must have signed a ball-busting contract with Samsung before the launch of the original Instinct that probably had a minimum device purchase for the Instinct that forced them to offer future generations of the device. Given that the Instinct was originally meant to be their iPhone-killer, it wouldn't surprise me if they signed a very stupid contract in panic. Now, they are in a bad situation, so they are trying to steer people away from the Instinct.

Now, the best way to prove that theory would be if the InstinctQ is magically cheaper than the Instinct HD. If that's the case, we know there's some bizarre backroom dealing going on.]]>Sep 24th 2009 11:08AMhttp://www.engadget.com/2009/09/24/sprint-temporarily-loses-its-mind-wants-250-for-samsung-instin/http://www.engadget.com/2009/09/24/sprint-temporarily-loses-its-mind-wants-250-for-samsung-instin/Sep 24th 2009 1:09PMhttp://www.engadget.com/2009/09/24/sprint-temporarily-loses-its-mind-wants-250-for-samsung-instin/http://www.engadget.com/2009/09/24/sprint-temporarily-loses-its-mind-wants-250-for-samsung-instin/
Instinct has none of this.

]]>Sep 24th 2009 11:09AMhttp://www.engadget.com/2009/09/24/sprint-temporarily-loses-its-mind-wants-250-for-samsung-instin/http://www.engadget.com/2009/09/24/sprint-temporarily-loses-its-mind-wants-250-for-samsung-instin/
I think our European friends are right... we are too addicted to that up front subsidy. ]]>Sep 24th 2009 11:16AMhttp://www.engadget.com/2009/09/24/sprint-temporarily-loses-its-mind-wants-250-for-samsung-instin/http://www.engadget.com/2009/09/24/sprint-temporarily-loses-its-mind-wants-250-for-samsung-instin/Sep 24th 2009 11:17AMhttp://www.engadget.com/2009/09/24/sprint-temporarily-loses-its-mind-wants-250-for-samsung-instin/http://www.engadget.com/2009/09/24/sprint-temporarily-loses-its-mind-wants-250-for-samsung-instin/Sep 24th 2009 11:19AM