Sprint today unveiled the Samsung Instinct, a touch screen device with access Sprint's EV-DO Rev. A Mobile Broadband Network.

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The Samsung Instinct offers a high-tech look with large, vibrant touch screen featuring localized tactile feedback, called haptics, which allow the virtual QWERTY keypad and other operations to become a sensory experience. The Instinct also offers a Voice to Action button providing many functions using voice activation including call, text, picture messaging, traffic, movie, sports, news and search.

Using Sprint's EV-DO Rev. A broadband network, the Instinct can quickly browse the Web, access business or personal email, share pictures, listen to commercial-free radio and more. Peak download data rates increase to 3.1 Mbps and peak upload data rates to 1.8 Mbps; average download speeds improve to 600 kbps to 1.4 Mbps and average uplink speeds increase to 350 - 500 kpbs. Access to other services and multimedia content include:

- Sprint Navigation, powered by Telenav, with GPS-enabled audio and visual turn-by-turn driving directions, one-click traffic rerouting and more than 10 million local listings
- Live Search for Sprint, powered by Microsoft, provides easy access to directory information on-the-go, GPS-enabled directions, interactive maps and one-touch click to call access
- Sprint TV with an extensive selection of live and on-demand programming
- Sprint Exclusive Entertainment (SEE), the industry's only made-for-mobile sports and entertainment video programming network
- Sprint Music Store allowing users to browse and wirelessly download full-length songs directly to their phone for just 99 cents each
- Pocket Express with up-to-date information on sports, weather, news, movie showtimes and other options customized to users' zip code

The Instinct offers three dedicated keys on the lower portion to make operation straightforward - phone, back and home. The phone key always takes users back to essential voice calling and features including speed dial, visual voicemail, contacts and the dial pad. The back key is a consistent way to take a step back in the operation. The home key provides access to the four menus of functionality:

- Favorites provides access to the things done most
- Main includes applications such as Messaging, Voicemail, GPS Navigation and more
- Fun takes you to Music, TV, photos, games and more
- Web provides a fast, real Internet experience and all things Web-related including weather and news

The Instinct boasts features including Visual Voicemail to let isten to messages in their order of preference and manage them with a tap of the screen. It also provides support for corporate and consumer (POP3) email, multitasking capabilities play music in background mode while surfing the Internet, texting or playing games, a 2.0-megapixel camera with camcorder and expandable microSD memory of up to 8 GB. Additional features include advanced stereo Bluetooth 2.0, integrated world clock, SMS voice and text messaging with threaded text, Phone as Modem, picture caller ID and Sprint Mobile Sync.

Contents include a 2 GB microSD card that holds approximately 2,000 songs from the Sprint Music Store, two standard 1,000 mAmp batteries offering up to 5.75 hours of continuous talk time each, battery charging sleeve, travel charger, USB cable, 3.5mm headphones with built-in microphone, and leather case with stylus.

- Samsung Instinct (M800) Specs

1. Posted by guyjack	Tue Apr 01, 2008 12:57 pm
I think that this is an April 1st prank
2. Posted by Shalalala	Tue Apr 01, 2008 1:42 pm
What is with all of these new people today? But no, it's not an April Fools Day joke.it's real And I don't want it. Any phone that calls itself an "iPhone Killer" is a joke.
3. Posted by McGirk	Tue Apr 01, 2008 2:10 pm
No kidding, the statement doesn't even need to be said, considering it is high-speed internet capable when the iPhone is not. On a side note, isn't this the phone that got Samsung all pissed off at Mobiledia in the first place? From what I recall, the specs that Mobiledia guessed at were practically spot on, including the 2mp camera instead of the 5mp that Europes model got.
4. Posted by ScottOrl	Tue Apr 01, 2008 8:26 pm
You're right. Sprint considers it a competitor not a "killer". However this to me is more a killer than a competitor. This phone has many features the iPhone does not (3G, GPS, PictureMail, TV) so IMO there is no comparison. I am an iPhone owner and while its a great phone, its lacking alot of the features consumer mobile users like and want.
5. Posted by iowa	Wed Apr 02, 2008 7:56 am
This Phone blows iphone away. too bad it's made by samsung and i'm boycotting them.
6. Posted by McGirk	Wed Apr 02, 2008 11:03 am
Thing is, the iPhone was meant for a segment that never really materialized that way that Apple expected. It's not technically a smart phone, so Apple was looking to make a phone directed at mediacentric phone users. However it's lack of certain features and high-cost left many folks feeling that a smart phone was a better value.
7. Posted by Shalalala	Wed Apr 02, 2008 1:21 pm
No, this phone doesn't blow the iPhone away - yes, iPhone lacks 3G (until the new one comes out in June), but the beauty of the iPhone is the way you can really develop for it.no phone comes close to the ability to mod the iPhone - whether through jailbreak (which I love, btw) or through Apple's new SDK, plus with constant firmware updates, it's better than anything else coming out - except the 3G iPhone that will be being announced in June, and will probably be released a on the anniversary of the first iPhone too.
8. Posted by iowa	Wed Apr 02, 2008 2:24 pm
This phone is really gonna put apple on thier toes. it has alot of features iphone doesn't have. Of course the att robot is going to knock it. face it, this phone blows iphone out of the water. it is far superior. especially on the data side. at least now i know why they did the cease and desist letter. they wanted this kept secret for a reason. it was only a matter of time before a phone like this came out. apple does not belong in the wireless industry.
9. Posted by Sir_GoAtaLoT	Thu Apr 03, 2008 1:02 pm
T-Mobile is comming out with a phone around Fall Time. I think. That is gonna also blow the IPhone out of the water. they won't tell us what it is.but we all think it's the GPhone.
10. Posted by iowa	Thu Apr 03, 2008 2:09 pm
Good. I hope all the carriers develop phones that blow iphone away. Apple doesn't belong in the wireless industry.
11. Posted by McGirk	Fri Apr 04, 2008 10:22 am
Anyone who wishes to belongs in the wireless business. If they fail that is on them, if they succeed then they have raised the bar, allowing us to have better products. THAT is the American way.
12. Posted by iowa	Tue Apr 15, 2008 3:35 am
Apple has fallen on thier face already though, and they were brought back from the grave by microsoft. in theory apple doesn't belong in any industry. long live my zune.
13. Posted by McGirk	Tue Apr 15, 2008 10:45 am
Look at my previous post, it still stands.
14. Posted by iowa	Tue Apr 15, 2008 11:57 am
Look at my previous post, it still stands. No it doesn't. apple fell on it's face, they should have been destroyed as a company. but they got a free bail out. if every company was allowed to do this could you imagine what our marketplace would be like? disaster.
15. Posted by jagon09	Tue Apr 15, 2008 6:21 pm
i have actually heard that the 3g iphone is not supposed to be released in june but that the actual release date is still unkown to the creators or who ever you want to call them. i think it was in an article on engadget. not sure. it was bout two weeks ago. just thought all you apple fanboys should know that you dont know every thing and keep waitin in your long ass lines at the store to waste another $600.
16. Posted by iowa	Tue Apr 15, 2008 6:53 pm
i have actually heard that the 3g iphone is not supposed to be released in june but that the actual release date is still unkown to the creators or who ever you want to call them. i think it was in an article on engadget. not sure. it was bout two weeks ago. just thought all you apple fanboys should know that you dont know every thing and keep waitin in your long ass lines at the store to waste another $600. Good Posting. Long live my zune.
17. Posted by McGirk	Wed Apr 16, 2008 9:49 am
I'm not a fanboy, I don't own a single Apple product, but that does not mean they have no place in the market. Apple is making a large amount of money at this point in time, many of the companies in this country have been bailed out at one point or another. If it wasn't for competition products would not get any better. Can you imagine being stuck with Winblows ME just because there was no competition pushing them to make improvements. And if Apple has pushed the current lineup of cell phone manufacturers to make improvements on their phones then that is awesome for us. Would I own an Apple phone, at this time I would say no, but that doesn't mean in the future they won't have something that I might like to have. And if Apple-inspired improvements find there way into a new nonApple phone that I buy, that only makes me a winner, because of Apple. Let them stay, it can't hurt me for them to be here.
18. Posted by Shalalala	Wed Apr 16, 2008 1:07 pm
you love zune so much? You and this guy: http://gizmodo.com/379580/zune-tattoo-guy-asks-microsofts-permission-to-change-name-to-microsoft-zune need to hang out then
19. Posted by iowa	Thu Apr 17, 2008 2:23 pm
you love zune so much? You and this guy: http://gizmodo.com/379580/zune-tattoo-guy-asks-microsofts-permission-to-change-name-to-microsoft-zune need to hang out then Ha Ha ok it's not like that manator
20. Posted by jeskeca	Thu Apr 17, 2008 8:39 pm
There are three pages of posts here and nobody has commented about what browser the Samsung phone uses. The phone in my pocket has EV-DO but can't come anywhere close to the iphone because it doesn't have the excellent iphone/webkit browser. Apparently, the Instinct's web browser isn't great. Likewise, the LG Vu browser is not impressive. None of these phones will touch the iPhone in utility until they include a web browser as good as Mobile Opera, Mobile Safari / Webkit.
21. Posted by iowa	Fri Apr 18, 2008 4:52 am
That's why there are wonderful third party apps like opera mini. the major downfall of the iphone is no third party apps
22. Posted by McGirk	Fri Apr 18, 2008 9:34 am
And another major downfall is the lack of 3g data, who cares how good the browser is if you are using a dial-up speed network.
23. Posted by Shalalala	Fri Apr 18, 2008 7:56 pm
And another major downfall is the lack of 3g data, who cares how good the browser is if you are using a dial-up speed network. Because McGirk it's "optimized" Edge has come a long way since the iPhone came out - and when HSPA+ comes out (around the same time as the new 3g iPhone) it will really be a world of hurt with speeds.
24. Posted by iowa	Fri Apr 18, 2008 8:39 pm
HSDPA is fast but barely faster than current evdo speeds. and evdo can still be upgraded to evdo rev b which is really fast, and in fact i think sprint should go that way instead of wimax. it would be massively cheaper and as fast as thier current backbone can support. att's main problem with thier hsdpa is if thier dsl service is any sign of thier current backbone they are going to need massive upgrading that would take years to upgrade just to be able to meet the last mile speeds that hsdpa can promise. at first it will work great, but as more and more subscribers use the system it will be bogged down, due to thier weak backbone servers. and the scary part is what will att charge for this service.
25. Posted by McGirk	Sat Apr 19, 2008 8:50 am
Certainly the new iPhone will be high-speed capable at some point, although early adopters will feel like they got the shaft when it is released, until they see the lack of coverage At&t's high speed data actually covers. One thing I'll say for Sprint, their data coverage is really good, of course they ignored their customer service to get it that way.
26. Posted by Shalalala	Mon Apr 21, 2008 3:54 pm
Certainly the new iPhone will be high-speed capable at some point, although early adopters will feel like they got the shaft when it is released, until they see the lack of coverage At&t's high speed data actually covers. One thing I'll say for Sprint, their data coverage is really good, of course they ignored their customer service to get it that way. Which will inevitably lead to the data network being improved for the iPhone users, which will benefit everyone else as well. What's with the dicussion of other carriers in the wrong sub-cats anyways?
27. Posted by McGirk	Tue Apr 22, 2008 9:59 am
It's where people take it.
28. Posted by yankeedoodles	Mon May 12, 2008 7:14 pm
any word on release date yet?
29. Posted by McGirk	Thu May 15, 2008 9:13 am
Release of what?

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