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  • that phone sucks dick it glitches hella

  • My friend has this phone

  • I thought this was going to be the "iPhone killer"/ Three years later, this phone has been completely forgotten and the iPhone beats this phone in every way. 

  • This phone was okay at first, but i was tired of the constant freezing and unresponsive screen quickly. I also had to go through 2 years with it, now i'm happy with my HTC Evo Shift :D

  • this was my first cellphone touch i have two

  • ive had this phone for almost 2yrs now! and i can't wait to get tha HTC EVO! or anything thats better than this phone! smhh! textin is sooooo hard on this phone!

  • i have this phone in my hand right now, and i can say that this phone fails on too many levels

  • dude is now erica

  • I had the 1st Instinct. I thought it was one of the best phones out. Until I UPGRADED TO THE NOKIA NURON 5230

  • I used to have this phone, it isn't good at all. Palm Pre is way better.

  • This is to shit to be compared to the iPhone, that is a sin.

    The touch screen on this phone is terrible

  • THIS PHONE SUCKS!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!! I used o have it, biggest FAIL ever smh sprint failed on this one.

  • THis isnt the instinct i have.!

  • i love this phone

  • This phone is crap I had it for 5 months and it froze on me all I have to say is think before buying this phone

  • okay 2 questions on the instinct for my web the zoom doesn't say 1x it just zooms in on its own how do i get it back to the 1x and 2 when i get a pic message i try and save it to my phone but it doesn't let me hpw do i save it

  • 500 characters makes it difficult to say so I will reply to my own message with additional details. Here are some of the problems:

    1) Its core software and apps can be upgraded to fix bugs, but fixes rarely (if ever) come. Even simple bugs have been allowed to remain within this phone for nearly 2 years now. This shows that Samsung and Sprint really just doesn't give a damn.

    * Now in the order the apps appear on the screen:

  • EMAIL - This app will decide to stop downloading email for no reason whatsoever. You may not even notice it's broken until you try to send an email and it fails.

    MESSAGING - This one is actually pretty good.

    VOICEMAIL - This visual voicemail feature is the phone's best feature.

    NAVIGATION - Basically the only piece ever updated. It is bad. It's slow in keeping up with your position and will often get confused on a trip and send you in an infinte seies of U-turns.

  • CALCULATOR - This works, but limits you to 2 decimal places in calculations for no reason whatsoever.

    NOTES: The phone allows you to save general notes for yourself. This is a handy feature, but it limits you to 9 notes of 500 characters in length. My phone has over 1GB of storage. The UI that presents the notes is the same used for contacts so even that can handle more than 9 entries. This limitation is complete horsesqueeze.

  • CALENDAR - This was designed by a completely inept programmer. It's limited to a total of 60 events. 60! Remember those 1000MB of storage? Yes, the phone limits me to 60 events.

    If you click on a date to enter an event pay attention because the UI will often quietly set the date to the day AFTER you selected.

    ...

  • ...CALENDAR (Cont)

    Modifying entries can throw the date out of wack (see my video for example)

    Events are given only 32 TOTAL chars to: name it, speficy location, phone number and details.

    Repeat feature does not work.

  • CLOCK - Sometimes after using the alarm feature the alarm will go off at some bizarre totally unrelated time for no reason.

  • BROWSER - The web browser is possibly the worst I have ever used. Usually when clicking a link one of the two will happen: 1) Nothing or 2) the screen will do a little zoom-in / zoom-out dance.

    Clearing the browser history will not erase the final site you visited.

    Going to a "base page" from which you can click various links, hit "back" then go to another of those various links (like a news site) will often confuse it and give you "Link Expired" errors.

  • BROWSER (Cont)

    YouTube support is poor.

    Screen will often fail to size pages of text to fit within the width of the screen.

  • NEWS / POCKET EXPRESS - This is a fun little feature that displays categories of news. Unfortunately, the touch-sensitive scroll is bad and it's hard to scroll just a little. Clicking on article titles will often trigger a bug that causes the web browser to pop up for no reason. The feed that supplies the news articles is a little fishy. I like the Science category but it's usually loaded with articles of environmentalist propaganda instead.

  • PHOTOS - The feature to mail photos cuts out a lot of the resolution.

  • TEXT - The screen that allows you to type needs work. If you misspell a word and the Instinct provides the correct text in a suggestion list then you're fine. If it's not in that list then all hell breaks loose.

    Press the "back" button down and your cursor goes backwards 1 spot. Hold it down for a period of time that's a complete mystery and all of your text before the cursor is deleted. If you need to delete several characters be very careful otherwise it will eat all of them.

  • This is a lousy phone.

  • i hate this phone. i have a lotus now and i love it.

  • which is better--this one, or the samsung instinct s30? i'm getting a new phone but idk which one to get.. thanks!

  • SICK!!!

    BTBAM

    Their Sick !!!

    I Used to Listen to them

  • what is the difference between samsung Instinct m800 n s30??

    what do you guys think i should buy??

  • Blackberry 8520 or Nokia e66? HELP ME PLEASE!

  • i've had the phone for over a year and it was pretty good. the battery life is okay. you can get through the day with it. charge every night and anytime that you can...im getting an upgrade though for the htc hero !

  • ya the battrey will last a day for me to

  • I dont think Sprint has the on the website anymore.Because i cant find it.

  • Yes it is. I found it.

    There is Samsung Instinct HD for $200+ (after mail in rebate or something)

    And Samsung Instinct REGULAR for $99 (After mail in rebate or something)

  • I've had this phone since May. I think its pretty cool. Sometimes the texting pisses me off bcuz it puts in the letter next to the one you really touched. Also when Im on the internet it freezes, turns off & back on by itself. But other than that its ok... I like the fact that a little star is on top of the screen when you have missed alerts or even emails. Im thinking about getting the exclaim but Im not so sure yet....

  • tey stopped selling this fone :(

  • i kno! im so sad

  • iphone better

  • LOLZ wanna be iphone!

  • I love my instinct!

  • looks shit! sorry! HTC Hero rules! it's like having an iPhone but with a LOT more! Apps are free!!

  • Sprint SUCKS

    None of their phones even compare to verizon

  • i have verizon sprint has cooler phones

  • are you kidding? verizon is coming out with the droid, that's cool

  • Always prefer the original: Buy an iPhone :P

  • How is the iphone original. There were alotta phones before the iphone that were touch screens.

  • IM GETTIN 1 WITHIN A WEEK

  • dont !! i got one and it freezes constantly!! and this is my third one!! BIGGGG waste of money!!

  • It has nothing as instinct ! in this demo some buttons don't react correctly !!

    Witch OS is it ?

  • IM GETTING THIS WENESDAY

  • Never get this phone. I got a new phone this phone sucks. They discontinued this phone, and had to make a new one called instinct 2.0 i beleive. It always freezes when on internet. I found out this phone was not desined to the use of internet. I was not happy with that phone. Total waiste of money.

  • out of 10 how responsive is the touchscreen.

  • like a 8

  • i have this phone but im getting a HTC touch pro instead now. its a good phone, but not the phone for me.

  • lol he doesnt know how to turn on speeker!!!! LOL and i have the s30 and it ROCKS!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!

  • i just got the instinct s30 its the best. the only thing is it comes with less accessories than the the first instinct and they should have included a screen cleaning cloth since its a touch screen.

  • numai doi megapixeli?:))) =))

  • im gonna get this phone in a few days. i have the everything plan so i could use everything on it.

  • Comparing the two services and web use, sprint has the upper hand. For my wife and I it would cost roughly 180 bucks a month, where with sprint with two of these phones, it would only cost us 130 buck, not to mention that AT&T weekend and night plan starts at 9 where sprints is at 7. ALl in all, sprint is the better deal. Web use is FASTER with sprint, go to the DSL speed website and compare. Clearly faster. Instinct is the way to go economically speaking.

  • THE ONLY REASON THE IPHONE's BROWSER iS BETTER IS BECAUSE IT USES THE ACTUAL WEBSITE NOT A CONVERTED MOBLIE WEB BROWSER.

  • lol that thing is a wanna b Iphone.

  • xcept its not a piece of shit

  • got that right

  • ok lets say u want the instinct but u have a family plan that doesnt include internet do u have to change ur plan or u can just not get the web on it

  • when i got my instinct we had to upgrade because they said that the phone NEEDED the internet

  • yea u have to get the everything plan

  • can i use this phone with boost mobile

  • well...rly have push hard on that screen...thats deffenetly not a + to the phone....

  • you can change the sensitivity to the screen

  • this phone is awesome i have it

  • this is just like the iphone except affordabloe

  • @greekzebra14 no the iphone has cooler apps, multi-touch, GOOD video recording that doesn't sound choppy, a higher megapixel camera, a smoother OS, and a good music player where the music doesn't sound like crap when you turn it up full volume

  • I like the behold better.

  • FRiking Retard! Its Sprint PCS! Fucking Asshole!

  • nothing really. i think it has some new features but not sure what, and the look of it is changed

  • its a good phone but i think that the iphone is better.

    Thats just my opinion

  • this is a good phone. lol i laughed when he was trying to press the speaker button. you have to slide it to the left to turn it on/off. i rarely experience any lag with the phone. the only complaint i have is while on the internet browser, it is somewhat difficult to press smaller links or links that are close to eachother. whoever gets this phone will be happy

  • hey fun you said you wanted the iphone but dis fone is kwl

  • This is defelently my phone no doubt so kwl kwl kwl kwkwl kwl kwl kwll

  • i just got this phone. its awesome, everyone at school always wants too see it. it's not better than iphone (like the internet and touchscreen)...but its definitely the next best thing.

  • this is truly worst phone I have ever had!!! who ever came up with the name " iPhone Killer" must of meant u have to throw Instinct at iPhone hoping to destroy it that way... it freezes... camera is worst ever... no zoom... quality is probably 1 mp instead 2 mp advertised u think about recording a video? forget it dnt even try trust me...

  • you must've had a bad instinct then cause ive had mine since the week it came on the market and its still going strong no complaints.

  • well I got mine not even a month ago and its not malfunctioning, it is just annoyingly slow, and just yesterday 120+ pictures I had on sd card in my phone mysteriously disappeared??? ok, I'm thinking s... happens with sd's but than I look in phones memory and guess what? pictures from there are gone too??? have you tried to take a pic with this phone? anything but perfect light and camera is useles, txt? i'm not fast typer but I have to wait for the phone to catch up with me, it's so slow...

  • You Most likey deleted them!!!

  • i'm not that dumb lol... and thing was when I checked the memory it showed lot of things were on my sd so figure that one out... any other suggestions?

  • Hook it up to pc and look at files if there copy from sd card to pc and then back!!!

  • i tried that too, and again sd card showed no content on it but it showed busy space ... wierd.... and guess what happened just days ago my web apps wouldn't work no matter what I tried.... only solution was to hard reset my phone with help of sprint customer service...

  • I'm a bit freaked out with the thousands of dollar bills! ! ! ! ! I got this phone for my bro and i'm gettin the palm pre! but since they are data phones i'm scared that they might charge me so much money for them ! i put the unlimited data plan (txt,web,calls, etc)on my bros phone but people with the same plans have been charged for txts and using data! regardless! my bro was all over California and nevada for spring break and it worked perfect ! he used 18,000 messages and not a problem

  • im getting this phone and it seems soooo cewl!!

  • Como puedo ponerlo en español?..

    Can put this phone in spanish?, i have it but i can't, i dont find the languaje..

    Please help

  • Bullshit. A phone called instinct.

  • well I wanted this phone but the camera thing really bugs me, and the fact you cant set caller id pics and wallpapers ugh!!

  • Yes u can.... u can put a wall paper and caller ID pics because i have that phone and u can.. Instinct is the best touch on the market

  • i have had the instinct and iphone and i think iphone is better, but thats just my opinion

  • Read the directions!!!!! try that before crying about something it cant do but clearly can. I read the instructions and have wall paper and contact caller ID Pics.

  • wats the best touch screen phone? and dont say this one

  • hahaha of course the iPhone but thats a bit expensive so IDK what your price range is

  • I think the original touch phone is still the best! but my bro has dis one and it works very good! does not have as much apps as the iphone! i'm planning to get the palm pre which is been said is going to be the real competition of the iphone! but well see!

  • u have to slide the speaker phone thing

  • how do u turn the internet off on the phone. shits running up my bill when i leave it running. is it in settings?

  • ...just don't go on you're internet....

    or get a plan with internet.

    It costs alot if you use internet without a plan.

    But you can't turn it off.

    Try talking to your cellphone service provider.

  • okay, im getting that phone and there's a couple things bothering me. mainly: how do u put it on vibrate?

    second: if u record sumthing (if u can), can u set it as a ringtone?

  • its easy to put it on vibrate, no worries there. and yes you can record things on this phone, but no you cannot use them as a ringtone, sorry.

  • okay thnx. ya i just received my phone in the mail this morning and i'm just now gonna activate it.

  • how can you record sounds on the phone and also does it have anything that can listen to a song and tell me what it is.

  • Gimme that Filet-O-Fish

  • give me that fish

  • the button for the browser isnt a refresh Button its a history Button

  • "... and i am now erica" lol

  • i give it a BIG C+ and -...lol but i'll LUV TO HAVE IT RiTE NOW tho

  • you are quite the little bitch now aren't you?

  • stop crying it's a excellent phone if you don't suck at life...

  • I'm so dumb I got this for my bro for his bday and I want it now!!!!! grrr! I have the overrated razr for over 3 yrs now ! I actually like it though I think the original touch phone (iphone) proly is better

  • this phone or the incite?

  • this is samsungs wanna be iphone but personally i dont like this one but then again ive had a iphone for a long time now so

  • this phone actually was released a week and a half before the iphone so i dont get how its a wannabe if it came out first.

  • it came out a week before the iphone 3g. but a year after the 1st iphone.

  • you have to slide the speaker button

  • does anyone know how to change the language on the instinct?? i have looked all over and found nothing need help thanks

  • Great vid and explanation, but i do have one question.

    So basically if u don't have unlimited internet the phone's basic features r use less right?

    Or can u do navigation and Sprint mobile T.V. with the phone(i dont think u can).

    Plz messege me back ty

  • haha the speaker phone didnt even work this phone looks shitty like every sprint phone..too bad im stuck with them for one more year with the upstage lol it sucks!!

  • haha and i am now erica

    oh and you drag the thing to put it on speaker phone lmao

  • hehe... Erica...

  • you talk like a robot

  • drag to turn on speaker (haha dummy)

  • haha lol

  • how much does internet cost on the instinct and some other applications?

  • 150 per month (3 lines add 19.95) for familly and either 59.99 a month or 69.99 a month for an indiviaul plan and that includes tv ,datas(web), and unlimted texting and mesaging.

  • its 99.99 for unlimited everything so yea u could pretty much go with that

  • is a 2yr extension the same as upgrade? because i wanna get this phone but ive only had my sprint service for about 5 months :(

  • no it sucks because i want this phone too and have had mine for 2 months and their like no way. you have to pay 449 from sprint and u can get one on ebay for 150-299 thats what im gonna do.

  • no its not. its 120 after 100 mail in rebate on line

  • My local RadioShack is having a promotion, $79.99, UGH if I only had the money... :(

  • this is phone i want so much. i dont want any iphone. that phone ok but no tv and u have to use wifialso its much cheaper and i thik the network is better u can also upload videos u made on the instinct and put the on youtube facebook etc

  • i know rite its so awesome and i can get it for only a 100 dollars

  • how do you set a message signature for the instinct? you know...the little signature that goes under the message that you send to someone...

  • Yes, youtube works on the Instinct!

  • im getting this phone and i was wondering can u get on youtube and it play because i have the rumor (white) and it wont play youtube videos. will someone please tell me

  • i got the instinct a few weeks ago and i love it. it does so many things its awesome. hahah :)

  • get the opera browser...you'll love it even more

  • hahahaha 2:20 he did not know how to turn speaker phone on... lol you have to slide the thing to on

  • I know, I hate the rumor, I haveit and its green, so I want to Instinct

  • lmao yeah thats funny

  • hahahaha ya lol I was laughing at taht too. He looked like homer simpson or someone trying to get it to work. :)

  • i have the rumor as well and im pretty fast on the keyboard so im kinda skeptic about touch screen. it seems very nice but you never know.. can any one give me more info?

  • ok i was the same way. but i fooled around with my sis instinct and after awhile i got used to it and i was texting pretty fast. it's just something to get used too :)

  • how much does this phone cost

  • well the regular price for it is about $400, if u had sprint for 1 year its $100, and if u had sprint for 2 years then its $50.

  • I have had my sprint phone for a couple months short of 2 years but i had another sprint phone for years before that so would i be able to get the instinct for $50?

  • alright thanks. i just got my instinct today. And i just have a question bout one more thing if you dont mind. Is there anyway to send the same text twice, to like the same person. Because i dont get to good of service in my area, so alotta the time i have to send the msg twice.

  • I just have a question for people who have this phone. Because i have the LG rumor by sprint. And like lets say i text someone, but the text fails. You have to go in your outbox and resend it and all that. For the instinct, if a text fails to send, is there like a retry button?

  • i have the lg rumor too, its kinda sucks though doesn't it???

  • how come you have to pay the 99 everything plan to get this phone??

  • fyi for the speaker to turn on and off u slide it too.

  • to turn the speaker phone on you have to slide it over to on

  • Is this better than the htc touch pro?

  • Hell yes simply because it is ran of a microsoft platform which is no stranger to crashing and problems. The guy at the sprint store told me those phones break all the time. I'm getting a instinct tommorrow.

  • microsoft softward has been crash and problem free for 6 months (fyi)

  • Dude you are so right iu had nightmares for a while after i said that. Actually the sprint people at the sprint repair shop said don't get the instinct and recomended that. Also the treo 755p tey said they don't see many of those.

  • i like both phones Insitnct and treo/palm

  • Sorry I was wrong!

  • Instinct users

    w w w. Instinct-Samsung. com

  • i have this phone its good

  • sprint has awesome service i had service on a airplane and im getting the phone for christmas im sooooooo excited and iphone is getting really old and boring!!!!!!!!!!!!

  • I went to the Sprint Store, and they are reaping me off to get this phone, but I got the same phone at a really good price at the internet. before buying this phone at the store go check this site

    w w w. tmiphones .c o m

    Promotion code: 34006

    Offer code: youtube

  • the site youre advertising is the same as wirefly except on wirefly . co m you dont need a promo code to open the site.

  • Really? well it's ok, I already got the phone anyways.

  • so u just came to this video to bash this phone and praise the iphone.....so how do u like being a virgin?

  • LMFAO!!!

  • He gets paid to show how cell phones work, in fact he's created a career out of it; and what do you do again?

  • wtf r u talking about. im talking 2 wowwow1997 not the video. stfu and go read a book

  • I'm sure the comment was not aimed at the guy on the video.

  • i want one