Samsung Instinct Review:

The Samsung Instinct based around a 3.1-inch, 240-by-432-pixel touchscreen. This will include tactile feedback, called haptics, which will allow the virtual QWERTY keypad to feel a little more like a real one.

The Samsung Instinct looks a lot like a certain cell phone from Apple, but Sprint (thankfully) isn’t positioning it as an iPhone killer. Rather, a Sprint spokeswoman called it just an iPhone competitor. We’re not quite sure what to make of that, either.

Samsung Instinct Features

The Samsung Instinct’s feature set is well stocked with a host of goodies that should make any media phone fan proud. Inside the 3G handset, which is Sprint’s first device to have EV-DO Rev. A at birth, you’ll find a 2-megapixel camera, access to the Sprint Music Store for wireless downloads, stereo Bluetooth, audible caller ID, voice dialing and commands, a full HTML browser, a digital music player that shows album art, support for Sprint Radio and Sprint TV, phone as modem capability, Microsoft Live Search, and integrated GPS with Sprint navigation.

Instant messaging is not onboard, but the Samsung Instinct will display the full thread of the text conversation. You’ll also get multimedia messaging and access to personal and corporate e-mail. And in a surprising move, the Samsung Instinct will have some form of Visual Voicemail (yes, Sprint says it should be capitalized), which up until has been exclusive to the iPhone. In case you haven’t heard (and really, you should have), Visual Voicemail allows you to pick and choose which messages you want to hear. It’s quite a cool feature, but we we wonder if AT&T and Apple are calling their copyright lawyers.

Samsung Instinct Interface
As mentioned earlier, the Samsung Instinct relies heavily on a large (3.1-inch, 262,000 color) touch screen, which will be your interface for almost all of the phone’s functions including placing and ending calls. Below the display are three separate touch controls: a back button, a Home key, and a shortcut control that will take you to the calling menu. In an improvement over the iPhone, the display gives localized tactile feedback, and the texting and e-mailing onscreen keyboard will display in a landscape orientation. The user-programmable Favorites menu looked pretty nifty, as well, and we like the multitasking capability, which allows you to move between different functions pretty handily.

But even with those features, the menu interface isn’t quite as slick as the iPhone’s. It’s not that it doesn’t have promise; it’s just that it falls a bit short in both usability and beauty. That could be because we were using a beta version; we’ll have to wait for a final model to give our firm assessment.

The Samsung Instinct ’s differents compare to apple iPhone:

1. Samsung Instinct is a true 3G phone, with support for Sprint’s high-speed EVDO Rev. It doesn’t support Wi-Fi, but let’s face it–cellular coverage tends to be a lot more ubiquitous and you don’t have to deal with setup whenever you’re connected.

2. Samsung Instinct got real GPS and a real navigation application. Apple’s cell phone tower triangulation with Google Maps is better than nothing, but it’s not GPS.

3. Samsung Instinct is almost certainly going to be cheaper than the iPhone.

4. Samsung Instinct is highly customizeable. You get to create a startup screen of favorites, and can also swap out entries on the icon-driven main screen. Below are images of both.

5. Third-party apps are supported. It’s a BREW/Java phone, so developers who’ve created BREW/Java apps for other phones should be able to easily port them to the Instinct.

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