Comments on: Sprint sees record sales of Samsung Instinct

By: YabbaDabbaDoo

YabbaDabbaDoo — Sun, 15 Mar 2009 18:48:21 +0000

I think you meant “understatement”, not “overstatement”.

By: Biglog

Biglog — Wed, 03 Sep 2008 14:28:01 +0000

Cheap imitation of the real deal- Anyone with sense can see the value of an iPhone, and its not just the cool factor. OSX, Safari, the SDK and the App store…
Suckers can buy the cheap copy, and live with it, or buy the iPhone and grow with it. And Gina, you can chew on my moniker.

By: Gina

Gina — Thu, 07 Aug 2008 17:12:24 +0000

I bought it this past Sunday. I’m very happy with the phone. Also happy not to have to deal with iTunes. I would have liked to have gotten the iPhone but was not keen about waiting on long lines in Manhattan for the phone. BTW, the Sprint plans are cheaper that AT&T. AT&T charges $20 for unlimited texting, on top of the regular phone/data usage charges. With Sprint, the unlimited texting is included. My bill is way cheaper than my friend who got the iPhone. So there. Plus, the phone is just $129. Yeah, the iPhone is a cooler phone, I’ll admit it. But AT&T’s plans are a rip off. And you know it. Chew on that Apple drones.

By: emanuel morales

emanuel morales — Sun, 27 Jul 2008 05:21:07 +0000

wel personally i like the instinct ive had it for a month now n sure its not the i phone but everything is compared to it as if it is the best phone out there but if anyother phone came ouy before i phone than that phone would be the phone to beat which is the only reason i think people think the i phone is so greag n by the way im writin this on my instinct

By: Premonition

Premonition — Sat, 26 Jul 2008 23:47:58 +0000

Funny thing is they dont tell you the sales number, and no other phone on the market has had long lines like the Iphone 3G or the iphone for that matter, for those who dont know Iphone in just 3 days sold over 1 million units, Combined with the 1st gen iphone that is 7million units sold worldwide, I dont see samsung catching up with those numbers any time soon, and if you just want to go 3G to 3G, I dont think instinct is even near 1million mark yet.

By: Why WiFi?

Why WiFi? — Sat, 19 Jul 2008 15:00:17 +0000

Andy the 3G iPhone does have WiFi and I can tell you why you would use it, when you are sitting 50+ floors above NYC in your apartment and Sprint, T-Mobile nor AT&T have a solid signal up here then you need WiFi.

By: andy

andy — Fri, 11 Jul 2008 19:33:11 +0000

no WIFI?
3G iphone has no WIFI either.
why need WIFI when you can browse anywhere with 3G+ speed.
you are not really heavily using the browser, right?

By: tcano2003

tcano2003 — Tue, 08 Jul 2008 22:16:39 +0000

FYI: It does not have WiFi

By: andy

andy — Tue, 01 Jul 2008 22:13:32 +0000

sorry to the apple fans, but I am trying not to give my money to apple for another “ipod with phone add on”.
Yes, apple might be the first one got there, but I got the samsung instinct and it’s not bad.
Lets go with the weak part, which is the browser and smaller screen. the browser can probably be fix later with add-on like all the other samsung phones.

the good,
1)it’s on a faster than 3G EVDO rev a network
2)it’s not on AT&T
3)turn by turn GPS…apple 3g is only 2D map.
4)touch vibrate.. at lease i know the phone got my touch command.
5)voice command…I can voice dial, voice email, call GPS(goto…address).
3G iphone had none of those.
4)exchangable battery…so after the TWO batter dies…all I have to do is buy more battery and my phone is new again…
no like iphone it’s a buy and dispose…apple don’t want to repair.
5)TV, radio, pot-cast.
6)cheaper price…I added a 8G memory card and is still cheaper than 3G iphone 8G….and I don’t have to deal with itune. Just drag and drop to memory card ..

everything else is same as 3G iphone…
so why not?
it’s not like you browse that heavily with the phone…
you just need the basic like email ….
unless iphone can get apps like MS office suite.

By: jj

jj — Fri, 27 Jun 2008 04:28:21 +0000

im srry to say but anyone that’s ever had an iphone and the gone back to any other phone could tell u that the i-phone has been the best phone they have ever seen/used/worked with i myself had the iphone until i sold it to get the new 3g cumming out and yes i have tried instinct but it just feels like a cheaper version of the iphone kind of like the same features with deference of pictures for almost the same applications. personally im sticking with the iphone 3G when it comes out, have had the instinct in my hand ( cousins ) and was not convinced by it.