In Las Vegas Sprint has announced a new mobile called the Instinct made by Samsung. It weighs in and is about the same size as the iPhone, and seems to use similar interface ideas. One of the most touted features of the Instinct over the iPhone is the ability to run on EVDO Rev. A, which can achieve much faster speeds than AT&Ts EDGE network. Instinct will come with a 2GB microSD card and it can be expanded up to 8GB. It also features a 2 megapixel camera, GPS navigation (using Telenav), Visual Voicemail (using the touch screen to scan through and browse voicemail messages), and two 1000 mAmp batteries giving up to 5.75 hours of talk time each, as well as some other accessories.
No price was announced, but Sprint claims it will be competitive to the $399 iPhone and should be available to purchase in June.
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Link: PhoneScoops Video of the Instinct
Link: Sprints Instinct Website and Order Reservation
No price was announced, but Sprint claims it will be competitive to the $399 iPhone and should be available to purchase in June.
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Link: PhoneScoops Video of the Instinct Link: Sprints Instinct Website and Order Reservation
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jeez, stop living in the 90's man, functionality is for losers. Its the year 2008, if its white and shiny with a picture of an apple on it and is promoted with a cool advert then we buy it. Next you'll claim you want to pay a reasonable amount for it too.
jeez, stop living in the 90's man, functionality is for losers. Its the year 2008, if its white and shiny with a picture of an apple on it and is promoted with a cool advert then we buy it. Next you'll claim you want to pay a reasonable amount for it too.
Since most phones still suck I'd say I'm still right.
I wish they'd bring some originality over there as well since you're apparently stuck on repeating "FUNNAY" stuff invented by others.
Oh well, you'll always have Celine.
Celine has nothing to do with anything. How hard is it to stay on topic?
Last edited by C_Guy on 02 Apr 2008 - 19:50
Celine has nothing to do with anything.
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Now you've done it!
http://neowin.files.googlepages.com/celine_crying.jpg
The only thing stopping me from buying an iPhone is the storage capacity... I need at least 20GB if not 30GB. Does anyone know how much this new Sprint one can store?
possibly...!
I'd still get the HTC Touch over this.
I'd still get the HTC Touch over this.
+1 ...anyway i already own a HTC...looking for wm6.1 (or atleast the cool wm7!!
I'd still get the HTC Touch over this.
I'm with you there as well. I'd love to get an HTC Touch Cruise (known here as the O2 XDA Orbit II), but it's just too god damn pricey! Then again, it's cheap as hell comapred to the iPhone.
I'd still get the HTC Touch over this.
-1
Symbian FTW.
I agree especially since it's only a touch screen not multi-touch like the iPhone. When someone says iPhone competitor I expect it to have the same features as the iPhone PLUS more.
Keep trying phone companies.
I agree especially since it's only a touch screen not multi-touch like the iPhone. When someone says iPhone competitor I expect it to have the same features as the iPhone PLUS more.
Keep trying phone companies.
How often do you *really* use multi touch though? And it does add features and has faster internet. It also depends all on what you consider important features, which varies per person.
Last edited by SkyyPunk on 02 Apr 2008 - 19:02
I agree especially since it's only a touch screen not multi-touch like the iPhone. When someone says iPhone competitor I expect it to have the same features as the iPhone PLUS more.
Keep trying phone companies.
How often do you *really* use multi touch though? And it does add features and has faster internet. It also depends all on what you consider important features, which varies per person.
You apparently don't own an iphone. The answer to "how often do you use multitouch" is "everytime the user browses a webpage". Multitouch is what allows you to squeeze and pinch...so unless you have super vision you pretty much use multitouch everyday if you own an iphone. Being able to pinch to zoom in and out is one of the most elegant features of the phone, especially during web browsing.
And why in gods name do the interface buttons take up almost as much space on the browser screen as the webpage...thats just horrible design and I truly hope there is a way to hide the interface when browsing.
People can say what they want about the iphone, but the bottom line is beating the iphone's interface is going to be a feat...Apple despite their issues are still the masters of creating an easy to use interface thats beautiful and simple at the same time.
Last edited by Qumahlin on 03 Apr 2008 - 00:13
Whats most amusing with this video is the person using it obviously hasn't used it much... with my Samsung when i first used it I was getting the touch but nothing problem they seem to have occasionally in this video. This is not the phone being slow! Its just not being used quite right, and after literally a couple of days you no longer have the issue.
My rationale is that it brings more competition to the market, and whether you like the iPhone or Firefox, or whether you hate them, they have both changed their respective industries in a matter of years (or months in the case of the iPhone).
1. Be reliable
2. Decent MP3 Player
3. Be able to Play Flash from web
4. Right click save as.
My coworker has an Iphone and it was fun to play with until I tried to save a picture from the web to it and found that you could not do that. Pretty lame. The image is cached on the phone from the web page but you cant get it out.
I hope this phone does well. Steve Jobs is an a$$
the flash issue will eventually be resolved...please note thats not an iphone issue, that is an issue for any mobile phone that wants to have a fully functioning HTML browser. Flash Lite is not full fledged flash and thats the closest any cellular device can currently come to supporting flash.
Now lets look at prices (if you haggle in store which surprising they don't do on the iPhone as they know a Mac fanboy will pay no matter the price)...
I pay £25/mo 18 months and got the F700 handset for free along with a set of : Bose in-ear headphones (view here) worth about £80. I then get 750 any network minutes and 250 texts (this could have been 500mins and unlimited texts. There is no redemption or months at half price etc...£25/mo that is it. I then bought a 8gb micro SD card for £25. The phones "price" is claimed to be £300 although I dont think its possible to buy individually.
Now the 8gb iPhone in the UK is £269 and at cheapest an 18month contract at £35/mo with 600 mins and 500 texts.
Total over 18month for F700 (£300) / Bose Headphones (£80) / 8gb card (£25) / 750 mins / 250 texts = £475 (getting you £405 of physical 'stuff' in essence paying only £3.88/mo for calling plan)
or
Total over 18month for F700 (£300) / Bose Headphones (£80) / 8gb card (£25) / 500 mins / unlimited texts = £475 (also getting you £405 of physical 'stuff' )
of
Total over 18month for iPhone / iPod headphones / 8gb memory / 600 mins / 500 texts = £900 (almost double the price).
The only real advantage I see the iPhone having over the F700 is Wi-Fi, but the F700 has a full slide out keyboard, 7.2mbps connection (30x the speed of the iPhone for browsing the internet thanks to the iPhone using the wonders of EDGE), and a higher res camera at 3mp. Also I dont have to install iTunes and manage a second music library just for my iPhone as I can sync with WMP. Unless you must have WiFi I personally think anyone buying an iPhone has more money than sense.
Maybe similar deals will be possible on the Instinct? If so anyone who is willing to sacrifice Wi-Fi wll save hundreds of pounds.
NOTE to get the price mentioned above u do have to haggle a lot in store... no u cannot buy online or nor is it advertised in shop windows... the contract is meant to be £35 a month and still on that contract the phone should be £125. Which would equate to a similar price to the iPhone (£780 once made 8gb)... the point is Vodafone and other companies will do deals on phones... iPhones however seem to sit in a special place where no such deals can be made.
EDIT: I dont know why its placed all those As in my text, but I cannot edit them out
Last edited by plastikaa on 03 Apr 2008 - 18:18
Where is the OS X-like interface?
Where is the Safari browser?
If your instinct is to make a cheap knockoff, at least make it remotely interesting and desirable.
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