Sprint launches Samsung Instinct S30!
By Will Park on Sunday, April 19th, 2009 at 11:04 AM PST In Announcements, Devices, Hottest Hardware, New Hardware, Samsung, Sprint
Samsung’s original Sprint Instinct did a great job of blowing away previous sales records, and Sprint (NYSE: S)’s looking for a repeat performance with their updated Samsung Instinct S30. And, it looks like Sprint has gone ahead and launched the sleeker, more refined Samsung Instinct S30 for the touchscreen-fiends out there. Despite that alleged Best Buy circular that hinted at an $80 Samsung Instinct S30, Sprint is offering their Samsung Instinct S30 for $129.99 with new 2-year contract (and $100 mail-in rebate, of course).
For those of you hoping for higher-end hardware, the new Samsung Instinct S30 isn’t going to make much sense. The Instinct S30 sports the same 3.2-inch resistive touchscreen display, 2-megapixel camera, GPS and Bluetooth 2.0 (A2DP) as its predecessor, the original Instinct. Samsung also saw to it that their Instinct S30 was outfitted with the highly-regarded Opera Mini 4.2 mobile web browser, to ensure users will enjoy a desktop-like browsing experience on their mobile phone. But, if you’ve been resisting the Samsung Instinct’s siren call, this new Samsung Instinct S30 might be too much to hold out on.
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when i had the original instince, i typed faster then the keyboard allowed, causing many mistakes and a lot of lag time. do you know if this is fixed with the s30?
Why has sprint launched a product that is a step backwards? The s30 may have a couple of superficial improvements, such as Opera 4.2 (which can be downloaded on many handsets), the fact that this phone uses CDMA Rev 0, while the original uses the much faster (especially on uploads) Rev A chip, completely befuddles.
What makes it even worse is that Instinct s30 is the same price as it’s higher spec predessor. If Sprint did this to save $$$, they are not passing them on to us.
And of course, Sprint’s competition is caught up or even surpassed them. Alltel got the superior (and sexier) Motorola Evoke, ATT gets Samsung’s best Impression. Even MetroPCS (who has 1/10th the subscribers) gets the Samsung Finesse, which is the same as the Instinct in hardware specs. And US Cellular is about to get the LG UX840, which is superior to the Instinct s30.
I don’t know what is going on in Sprint’s mind, when it comes to choosing handsets.
u know i ben with sprint over 5 years bu sprint have the worest coustmer seurvice and what ever phones they have they cant beet at&t
i really like the first samsung but i was thinking which one is easier to handle and easier to do stuff on?
sprint is the best i tried at&t and they suck like hell