Samsung Moment slider coming to Sprint, packing Android (update: official, $179)
By Nilay Patel 
posted October 7th 2009 1:57PM
posted October 7th 2009 1:57PM
Update: Oop -- Sprint just posted its PR ahead of the event as well, along with a pre-registration page. Yep, the Moment is indeed the InstinctQ. Pricing will be $179 on a two-year contract after $50 instant savings and a $100 mail-in rebate when it launches November 1. Oh, and there's no TouchWiz here after all -- that's another hyped manufacturer UI shelved in favor of "With Google" branding. Interesting.
Samsung Telecommunications America Showcases Portfolio of Mobile Phones Featuring Ultra-Brilliant AMOLED Screen Technology
CTIA Wireless I.T. & Entertainment 2009 Booth #635 SAN DIEGO--(BUSINESS WIRE)--Samsung Telecommunications America (Samsung Mobile)1, the No. 1 phone provider in the U.S. 2, and a global leader in mobile phone display technology, has expanded its mobile phone portfolio of touchscreen phones that feature the ultra-brilliant Samsung AMOLED screen. With the addition of the Samsung Behold® II and Samsung Moment™ to its portfolio which includes the Samsung Impression™ and Samsung Rogue™ announced earlier this year, Samsung Mobile is a leader in providing clearer and brighter screen technology. Samsung's revolutionary AMOLED technology provides screens with higher resolution that result in best-in-class screen clarity both indoors and in daylight. The AMOLED screens give users an enhanced mobile experience by providing true color and higher contrast ratio for a bright and vivid screen at any angle, perfect for viewing high resolution video and photos and browsing the Internet. In addition to providing crystal-clear resolution, the AMOLED screen creates a thinner mobile phone form factor and consumes less battery power.
"Samsung Mobile's AMOLED screens are a differentiator in our mobile phones that we're proud to continue featuring in our U.S. portfolio," said Omar Khan, Senior Vice President of Product Management and Strategy for Samsung Mobile. "The bright, vivid colors and thinner form factor take the user's mobile experience to the next level."
The Samsung Moment integrates the open and innovative Android platform with Google complete with built-in Google mobile services, including Google Search, Google Maps, Gmail and YouTube as well as the thousands of applications built on the Android platform. The Moment is the first Sprint device to include a brilliant 3.2-inch AMOLED touchscreen display and is designed with a tactile QWERTY keyboard that slides out horizontally and a virtual QWERTY keypad for versatile text messaging and email access. Device navigation is simple thanks to an optical joystick located just below the expansive display.
Powered by an 800 Mhz processor, the Samsung Moment is one of the fastest available in the market and features WiFi capability, integrated GPS navigation, 3.2 megapixel camera and camcorder and stereo Bluetooth® technology.
Samsung Behold II is a full touchscreen phone integrating the open and innovative Android platform from Open Handset Alliance with Samsung's next generation TouchWiz™ user interface that provides one-touch access to a user's favorite and most commonly used features and applications.
Available exclusively from T-Mobile USA later this year, the WiFi-enabled Behold II also allows access to corporate email through Exchange ActiveSync and personal email, as well as instant messaging, and text, picture and video messaging. Additional features include a 5-megapixel camera, visual voicemail, MP3 player, up to 16GB of external memory, assisted GPS and Bluetooth® 2.1 wireless technology. The Samsung Rogue is a sleek messaging phone with a full touch display that provides an optimized messaging experience with a horizontal slide-out, four-row QWERTY keyboard, threaded messaging and one-touch access to popular social networking widgets, including Facebook, MySpace, Twitter, YouTube and Photobucket.
The Samsung Impression, available exclusively through AT&T, was the first commercially available mobile phone in the U.S. to feature an AMOLED screen. The Impression's advanced touchscreen is paired with a full QWERTY keyboard in a slim, metallic blue slider form factor for quick and easy messaging. The Impression includes a 3.0 megapixel camcorder-capable camera, 3.2-inch screen and full Web browser.
See all of Samsung's mobile phones featuring AMOLED technology on display at CTIA IT & Entertainment 2009 at the Samsung booth, #635 in the San Diego Convention Center. For additional information, product photos and videos, please visit www.samsung.com/newsroom.
CTIA Wireless I.T. & Entertainment 2009 Booth #635 SAN DIEGO--(BUSINESS WIRE)--Samsung Telecommunications America (Samsung Mobile)1, the No. 1 phone provider in the U.S. 2, and a global leader in mobile phone display technology, has expanded its mobile phone portfolio of touchscreen phones that feature the ultra-brilliant Samsung AMOLED screen. With the addition of the Samsung Behold® II and Samsung Moment™ to its portfolio which includes the Samsung Impression™ and Samsung Rogue™ announced earlier this year, Samsung Mobile is a leader in providing clearer and brighter screen technology. Samsung's revolutionary AMOLED technology provides screens with higher resolution that result in best-in-class screen clarity both indoors and in daylight. The AMOLED screens give users an enhanced mobile experience by providing true color and higher contrast ratio for a bright and vivid screen at any angle, perfect for viewing high resolution video and photos and browsing the Internet. In addition to providing crystal-clear resolution, the AMOLED screen creates a thinner mobile phone form factor and consumes less battery power.
"Samsung Mobile's AMOLED screens are a differentiator in our mobile phones that we're proud to continue featuring in our U.S. portfolio," said Omar Khan, Senior Vice President of Product Management and Strategy for Samsung Mobile. "The bright, vivid colors and thinner form factor take the user's mobile experience to the next level."
The Samsung Moment integrates the open and innovative Android platform with Google complete with built-in Google mobile services, including Google Search, Google Maps, Gmail and YouTube as well as the thousands of applications built on the Android platform. The Moment is the first Sprint device to include a brilliant 3.2-inch AMOLED touchscreen display and is designed with a tactile QWERTY keyboard that slides out horizontally and a virtual QWERTY keypad for versatile text messaging and email access. Device navigation is simple thanks to an optical joystick located just below the expansive display.
Powered by an 800 Mhz processor, the Samsung Moment is one of the fastest available in the market and features WiFi capability, integrated GPS navigation, 3.2 megapixel camera and camcorder and stereo Bluetooth® technology.
Samsung Behold II is a full touchscreen phone integrating the open and innovative Android platform from Open Handset Alliance with Samsung's next generation TouchWiz™ user interface that provides one-touch access to a user's favorite and most commonly used features and applications.
Available exclusively from T-Mobile USA later this year, the WiFi-enabled Behold II also allows access to corporate email through Exchange ActiveSync and personal email, as well as instant messaging, and text, picture and video messaging. Additional features include a 5-megapixel camera, visual voicemail, MP3 player, up to 16GB of external memory, assisted GPS and Bluetooth® 2.1 wireless technology. The Samsung Rogue is a sleek messaging phone with a full touch display that provides an optimized messaging experience with a horizontal slide-out, four-row QWERTY keyboard, threaded messaging and one-touch access to popular social networking widgets, including Facebook, MySpace, Twitter, YouTube and Photobucket.
The Samsung Impression, available exclusively through AT&T, was the first commercially available mobile phone in the U.S. to feature an AMOLED screen. The Impression's advanced touchscreen is paired with a full QWERTY keyboard in a slim, metallic blue slider form factor for quick and easy messaging. The Impression includes a 3.0 megapixel camcorder-capable camera, 3.2-inch screen and full Web browser.
See all of Samsung's mobile phones featuring AMOLED technology on display at CTIA IT & Entertainment 2009 at the Samsung booth, #635 in the San Diego Convention Center. For additional information, product photos and videos, please visit www.samsung.com/newsroom.
This phone was previously called the Samsung InstinctQ (M900.) They are one in the same, wait for pics and you will see. Should be launching in November.
Did you see that? They just used what you said without giving
credit. Shame Engadget!
The original post was:
Samsung just accidentally leaked a Sprint-bound Android QWERTY slider
called the Moment in an otherwise totally boring press release about
its OLED handset lineup -- it'll have an 800MHz processor, TouchWIz,
a 3.2-inch AMOLED screen, optical trackpad and a 3.2 megapixel camera
Ha, dude -- this post was updated as fast as I could type. Trust me, I didn't have time to glance at comments first.
Eh, wasn't really looking for credit Nilay, its all good. Nice to see an Android device on a faster processor, I bet Sense would be awesome on this were it an HTC phone.
Multi-touch?
Wish HTC would use OLED screens. The HTC Touch HD 2 in an OLED screen would look great.
The TouchHD2 with its 4,3" capacitive beauty is just fine the way it is and in exactly 22 days will end up in my waiting pocket.
I had decided to keep my HTC Hero anyway because android+ Sense UI is just too much fun to use, (although on October 30 ,the date when my TouchHD2 should be delivered, I'll put my N97 and My TouchHD on Craigslist), but if Samsung or Moto (Sholes?) or HTC are going to release an Android phone with a bigger screen, a full qwerty and a faster processor and maybe the possibility of flashing SenseUI, I may decide to pension my beloved Hero too.
Yessssssssss! Been waiting on this (since I think this and the "Instinct Q" are one in the same)!
This might be the phone to get me off Windows Mobile. I'm willing to believe, Sprint. Just sell it to me for a decent price.
Ditto. My Moto Q9c needs a replacement, and this may be the phone that hits all the sweet spots-- unless they pull a "touch pro 2" on the pricing.
All I need for Android is:
Full QWERTY (Check)
Browser with Flash Player (Check - Flash 10.1 is coming to Android)
PlayForSure (not yet :( )
I know may be mad at PlayForSure, but I just love using them subscription services like Rhapsody and Napster. I don't mind paying $10 a month to get premium unlimited music downloads. All I ask Android is that. PlayForSure and syncing with Napster or Rhapsody.
3.5 mm jack - Does the Moment has it?
I think 800 MHz per minute is good enough for Android.
Good price - Checked.
PlaysForSure? On an Android phone? I don't think there's ever going to be a DRM system on this OS.
Yes it has 3.5mm jack.
"800MHz per minute" what?
Isn't this old news?
Looks Cheap. Can't match the sexiness of HTC's phones.
Ah, yes. Nothing could match the style of the HTC Dream.
http://i34.tinypic.com/wgp100.jpg
I, for one, love the Dream's design. It's different and functional looking.
I have one myself. It's functional, yes, but it could do with a little bit of flair. I have no right to complain about style in electronics though, since I bought an HTC Dream and a Dell Vostro 1500.
Now the hand wringing begins... HTC's Hero or hold off for Samsung's Moment. I guess it depends how fast they bring it to market. I could wait a few weeks, though if they say something like, "by the end of the year", who knows. Decisions, decisions...
It's obvious why they aren't calling this the InstinctQ - Sprint has finally realized that the public image of the Instinct is that it's a flaming bag of dogshit (which it is), so they are trying to step aside from that with the Android phone. Better to start fresh with a new brand name than try to trade on the heavily-tarnished Instinct brand.
I think it's more of a "We're going to have 5 Instincts at the same time, wtf" then anything else. In the tech world the Instinct sucked, but to many consumers they loved it. It was a very successful phone for Sprint and Samsung and people forget that.
The Instinct did what it was supposed to do. I really like mine, and while I wish there were apps for it, it is a pretty decent phone. For pure utility and price, it was a good unit, and since that was all I was looking for it beat the iPhone (plus I got TV, that keeps me entertained on long trips). The browser is now fixed with Opera, so that is a huge improvement, but yeah, it lacked any real expansion. The Android OS would be a god send on the instinct platform and as far as I am concerned a lot sexier than the HTC lineup.
I guess the bottom line is that consumers liked the phone even if we found faults with it. They should have kept the name branding and worked on marketing the improvements such as the web browser and new app store.
Yep. 2010 looks to be the year of android, '11 the year of WM7
A co-worker attended the Sprint Productivity Now conference in PHX a couple of weeks ago. He some hands on time with the M900 and he said the screen is ubersexy. The Sammy rep told him end of Oct/beginning of Nov as a release date
Wow HTC Touch HD2, Hero or This little number...things are getting crazy.... i remember last Dec it seemed like the i-phone was the only choice out there....things are lookin up in the mobile market....
P.S Still kinda wanna import the European Hero
The co worker would be me. Its build quality is good and it sounded good, and it is super sexy that screen...man that screen. The rep that had it there said no later than the end of nov but he thinks end of oct early nov. hell it just passed fcc like 3 days before the confrence.
It will be released Oct 11, same day as the Hero and a couple other phones and remakes
@Hannah
The Samsung Intrepid (Ace II) will be launching on Oct 11th: http://newsreleases.Sprint.com/phoenix.zhtml?c=127149&p=irol-newsArticle_newsroom&ID=1339138
The Samsung Moment Oct-Nov.
Official Sprint press release: http://newsreleases.sprint.com/phoenix.zhtml?c=127149&p=irol-newsArticle_newsroom&ID=1339737&highlight=
The Samsung Moment has been on Sprints rebate sheet for a while: http://www.boygeniusreport.com/2009/09/04/samsung-intrepid-ace-ii-and-moment-headed-to-sprint/
I believe the Moment is launching at the end of Oct, beginning of Nov at the latest.
I have to see a better picture for this phone, and hope that HTC Sense could be ported to this device.
What's the screen resolution? Capacitive or resistive?
800 MHz, OMAP or Tegra?
This could blow my Touch Pro 2 out of the water and free me from WM prison.
Wonder if it has a digital compass as well....
I can confirm capacitive
I'm not up on Samsung phones. What's the consensus on TouchWiz? The videos I've seen make it look a bit laggy but those were older phones. Is it a decent skin for Android?
it was as fast if not faster than sense ui.
I wish it wasn't so ugly and juvenile looking. Some metal brushed keys like the TP2 has would have been nicer.
Still looking forward to getting my Hero this week!
It's all about the Motorola Dext.
Oops i messed up Nov 1st
SERO SERO SERO SERO SERO SERO SERO SERO SERO SERO SERO SERO SERO SERO SERO
IS DEAD
pay to play.
if its samsung touchwiz over android that picture looks like an innacurrate depiction of what the screen is supposed to look like ive had the samsung behold 2 for tmobile n it looks different if it werent for the icons n notification bar u would think its actually just touchwiz pass on this go for the hero instead samsungs take on android hasnt really impressed yet cuz touchwiz sucks
I'm probably the only one who likes vanilla android. I'm disappointed to see this phone has Touchwiz. Same goes with Sense. These skins were only necessary because of WM 6.1 not being finger friendly. Really no need for a flashy UI on android. Its elegant and simple enough.
Its also concerning because now we have to wait for HTC or Samsung for updates instead of from Google. Where is 1.6 on HTC sense? What happens when 2.0 comes around. How long will HTC take to incorporate it into sense? And any way to run plain ole android on theses phones?
I'm also a fan of vanilla android, which is why if I get this phone I'll load it up with something similar to what I have on my g1.
800Mhz? AMOLED? Keyboard? Root it and put in a nice lean, fast Android build and this a WINNER. This may very well be the upgrade from my G1 that I've been looking for.
ROOT it and put a senseUI on it
there.. fixed that for you
; )
I've got an HTC Touch, and I've ran various builds, including the Hero's SenseUI ROM. SenseUI eats battery life and provides little benefit over a normal collection of widgets available from the marketplace. There are free Android Home Screen replacements that are on par, but don't require waiting for HTC to provide updates (which is all that SenseUI is, you can disable it and have a vanilla Android home screen on the Hero).
This is a really enticing phone. My HTC Touch has a ~450Mhz processor in it, and "lean" builds of Android still tend to lag and stall fairly often. The Hero only has a ~550Mhz processor, and I'm not sure that's enough. However, I've always been happy with HTC build quality, and battery life has been as expected.
This or the Hero? This has a better processor and the hardware keyboard.
On the other hand the HTC android skin seems to be pretty good.
I am with you, i want the HTC flavor of Android with this phone! All the reviews of the Hero have said that its super pretty but not powerful enough to support its GUI.
Confirmed for Nov. 1:
http://now.sprint.com/android/moment/?id9=vanity:moment
Damn you, T-Mobile!