Comments on: Samsung Instinct Selling Like Hotcakes; Relatively Speaking

By: dcstokley

dcstokley — Sat, 30 Aug 2008 08:46:43 +0000

I Had a iphone and they suck….i now have a htc touch and the instinct and love the speed that the iphone wish they had …………………..

By: Gary

Gary — Thu, 17 Jul 2008 06:43:49 +0000

I too had the problem with hitting the collapse button. Easy fix. Instead of using the back space button use the arrow key located on the bottom of the phone(bottom right if in landscape mode:). It serves the same purpose when in text mode. I find it to be a ton easier to use. They do need to relocate the back space key or just get rid of it all together since you don’t really need it if you use the back page arrow instead.
Another problem I have found was this. When you hit done sometimes it doesn’t go to the send screen right away so I hit it again. But by this time the send screen pops up and low and behold what is occupying the same spot on the touch screen as the done button? The good ol Cancel button. And of course the next screen that pops up has 2 more buttons marked yes or no. Well not reading the rest of the box can cause a problem. Because when I hit cancel by accident and the yes and no buttons come up my first instinct(oh the irony) was to hit NO. I don’t want to cancel so NO. Oops! My message that I just spent 3 minutes typing because I had the phone for 5 hours is gone. What?!? So I make a test text message up. Hit cancel and read the full message on the NO YES box. It says, “Save as draft?” Ok..I’m the idiot. Here’s my gripe. It’s called the “INSTINCT”. My “INSTINCT” if I accidentally hit a button that says “Cancel” is to hit “NO”. And how convenient? It’s located right above where the cancel button was. First off. Switch the Cancel and Send buttons around. What idiot put the cancel button in the place where the done button was. Part 2 of that is what moron puts “Cancel” before “Send” Shouldn’t the send button be on the left side anyways? Simple little changes will make this phone 10 better than what it already is…a great phone.
Now to the scrolling menus. Now I’ve adjusted my sensitivity levels, yet I still seem to chose things when I didn’t want to. Then when you go back it defaults back to the beginning. It took me 5 minutes to scroll to song number 124 on my song list because of this problem. Here is my solution. When in scrolling mode, who on this planet needs the full screen to scroll? When in scroll mode, particularly in the all songs list, shut down the scrolling to the left and the right. Put the scrolling ability right down the middle. Deactivate the select option down the middle and put it to the left since the song options buttons are on the right. I mean my natural instinct when I scroll anyways is to slide my finger right down the middle of the screen. By doing this, no more accidental selecting, faster scrolling…it just makes sense. It’s not like it would take that much more programing. Now I know this is the first of many more to come, but if you would’ve given me a test model, I could have made all these minor improvement suggestions and the million of us that have bought one of these things, would be tons happier and less gripes.

By: Zac

Zac — Sat, 12 Jul 2008 19:47:41 +0000

U know…I have read all these blogs, and i really do not understand why there is so much bashing of Sprint. Yes they are the 3rd largest carrier…but why? It isn’t because of bad service, or poor call reception…Its because they have failed to capitalize on what consumers want–COOL GADGETS!! ATT recognized this early on, so did verizon. Sprint has to make up ground…I dont want an iPhone…I dont want ATT. I had verizon…their customer service was 100x worse than Sprint. Sprint has been fantastic for CS…

I bought the Instinct. I love this phone. Thats what it is…a phone. Not an Ipod with phone abilities. The keys are bigger than i had on my Treo’s or Centro…

Sprint gives 30 days to return the phone. If you keep it 24 to 48 hours, did you really give it a fair chance. It is something completely new to most people. I have had it since day one. I love this phone. It has so many options and my simply everything plan makes it so I can use all of sprints services. The GPS is amazing, and the speech to action is incredible. I can speak my words to a text message. I can use real handwriting instead of typing to create messages…you cant do that with an iphone. the live search is live GPS, no prerecorded locations like a garmin or tomtom….And it pulls the direction and checks traffic for you…all included in the plan…I could leave sprint tomorrow, but why? the instinct does more than even the current 3G iPhone. I dont need wifi..i need to be connected when i am away from the laptop…if I wanted to have bigger keys, id use my laptop..
The guy writing this blog probably does not buy his phones himself–it is probably a company phone he is given to use…heplays with an iphone or instinct for a few minutes and then writes a review..actual owners of the products are the judges…but dont trust what you read–use them for yourself…for more than 20 minutes….I have many clients that told me they would not give up their iphones for an instinct. Once they saw mine, they compared the 2, and went to sprint and switched. The data network for sprint blows away anything ATT offers…wider coverage and faster speeds…why would i want ATT over Sprint? In AZ where I live, ATT has horrible coverage. Sprint includes all of their services for $99/mo. ATT makes you pay for the phone service, the data, and eveything else seperately. Show me why i would want them…….

By: Sepurb

Sepurb — Tue, 08 Jul 2008 01:46:05 +0000

lol bgr is wild… i’m really feeling the instinct, every new phone now is biting that design… apple is a beast with design so i’m not even mad… what this should tell APPLE is that they need to release the iphone to other companies(people are STILL buying razrs thanks to choice so its prolly going to be everywhere once obama leaves office )… i’m loving my simply unlimited plan which screams iphone but will ultimately bless my instinct :tu

sprint peeps just read the comments and keep it moving we aren’t the only ones releasing iphonys this year(and to years to come)

By: Don Louie

Don Louie — Sun, 29 Jun 2008 22:13:55 +0000

In a head to read matchup with the Dare who would come out on top in an unbiased poll?

By: Don Louie

Don Louie — Fri, 27 Jun 2008 17:27:16 +0000

I love this site and will continue to visit even if Sprint and some of thier cooler phones don’t get a fair shake.

By: pheer6224

pheer6224 — Fri, 27 Jun 2008 16:40:08 +0000

Despite my usual skepticisim of the touchscreen crop, I can’t deny that samsung has gotten a lot better with their proprietary interfaces. This thing looks like a regular 266 mhz ARM based feature phone to me, so it begs to be flashed with android. I can’t wait until sammie gets a stock version (hopefully on sprint) with the platform preloaded. However, it shouldn’t be too hard, someone already took the time to get it on a TyTn, so anything’s possible, especially with the more open dev architectures they use to program their own UIs these days. Just a thought though…

By: fanboisRus

fanboisRus — Fri, 27 Jun 2008 14:52:40 +0000

Some people come here for some news, and yes entertainment.
But day in and day out of iPhone comparisons in every other post, is just getting to me ( and apparently some other people here as well)
Lets face it even the best joke will get old quick if it gets repeated every other sentence.

Just some friendly advice, no hate.. truly.
What really sucks is I love(d) coming here.

By: Zach Epstein

Zach Epstein — Fri, 27 Jun 2008 12:50:06 +0000

Thank you Smells Fishy, some people just don’t get it.

Needle in a haystack? Umm, that quote is from the very next post on the site…

By: 2Legit

2Legit — Fri, 27 Jun 2008 08:06:48 +0000

Hey don’t hate, congratulate. Contrary to what you all want to believe, everyone does not want the iPhone. And it’s not all about the price either. So don’t trip ’cause the phone you paid first & last month’s rent for is being blown away by the Instinct. It appears some are hyping the iPhone to justify the choice they made. And BGR, you are the chief hater. Later witchu!

By: fanboisRus

fanboisRus — Fri, 27 Jun 2008 03:50:28 +0000

What can I say, you obviously got more time on your hands then I do. Finding a needle in a haystack is very commendable.

By: Smells Fishy

Smells Fishy — Fri, 27 Jun 2008 01:37:32 +0000

@ fanboisRus

“On Jun 26, 2008 @ 2:52 pm, fanboisRus Said:
where is you iPhone and/or Apple joke ?”

Hmmmm…

Posted by Zach Epstein on Jun 26, 2008 12:52 pm “Internal AT&T Memo Indicates Groundbreaking iPhone 3G Feature: MMS

Oh Apple, you’ve done it again! Next thing you know we’ll find out that Apple has figured out a way to copy text from one place and paste it to another. Ok, that’s just crazy talk.”

Not good enough I guess?

By: BrianC

BrianC — Fri, 27 Jun 2008 01:27:38 +0000

I also have to say the Secret Video ad is very bad but I love it.

By: champaigno

champaigno — Fri, 27 Jun 2008 00:03:56 +0000

i just left sprint cuz they wouldnt let me use my sero plan w/ the instinct

By: Don Louie

Don Louie — Thu, 26 Jun 2008 22:33:43 +0000

I just wish more buildup for it here would’ve helped, percieved or not there does seem to be a negative bias for Sprint and anything associated with

By: The Outside

The Outside — Thu, 26 Jun 2008 22:00:21 +0000

anybody wanna talk about the instinct?

By: Jdslim

Jdslim — Thu, 26 Jun 2008 21:39:03 +0000

To Tune C.

Tmobile all the way. Enjoy your badass self with your unlock iphone clone. We all know Tmo keeps it really. LOL

To everyone else don’t sweet over it. Go out and enjoy life and if you don’t a life get one

By: Tune c

Tune c — Thu, 26 Jun 2008 20:36:53 +0000

will i got the joke and liked it!!
please cry for me i’m with T-MO …

By: Jdslim

Jdslim — Thu, 26 Jun 2008 20:32:07 +0000

Don’t worry BGR. You’ll still the best out there.

Your post just to seem to piss people off some times. The bashing has gotten a little out of hand but if a BGR reader can’t handle what you or your team has to write then they should stay away from blogs feeds all together..

People need to remember what a blog is. It’s just a simple web logs of someone’s interst or opinions and thoughts on a any subject. Blogs are often a great source for information but by design they will always be just someones thoughts or opions. Me personally I like reading blogs. What other type of web site can you comment on a story try doing that on cnn.com. If you don’t like open opions or thoughts you shouldn’t read blogs.

By: Colin

Colin — Thu, 26 Jun 2008 19:43:05 +0000

The problem, as I see it, isn’t that people don’t know a joke, it’s that fanboyism has become so prevalent that when someone does make a joke, it’s immediately regarded as them being a fanboy of [insert company name here]

By: nyum nyum

nyum nyum — Thu, 26 Jun 2008 19:34:48 +0000

*yawn*

By: fanboisRus

fanboisRus — Thu, 26 Jun 2008 18:52:01 +0000

where is you iPhone and/or Apple joke ?
Unlike the one in almost every Microsoft and Sprint posting.

This used to be an information highway, and is now a useless fanboy club, lead by the “news reporter”.
The whole site is becoming a joke that no one gets, nor wants.

By: The Boy Genius

The Boy Genius — Thu, 26 Jun 2008 18:27:24 +0000

Like, are you serious? No one got the humor out of Zach’s last line? We’re not serious people, it’s called a joke. Obviously that was missed though.

By: A

Thu, 26 Jun 2008 18:18:20 +0000

“So what exactly do the Instinct’s record sales tell us? People bound to Sprint wish they could get an iPhone.”

Not really. Uncle Belvis says it best. For a while I’ve been thinking of removing BGR from my feed reader. This kind of dumb analysis almost seals the deal. Get out of the distortion field and get back to reality.

By: SB

SB — Thu, 26 Jun 2008 17:34:52 +0000

On the topic of who copied who, here’s a thought!

Who said iPhone form factor is original. Didn’t Apple rip it off from HTC, or even the iPaqs and palms before that? I mean, a screen with some buttons below it and on top of it………

By: badChad

badChad — Thu, 26 Jun 2008 17:14:00 +0000

Just a sign of the times.

“Smartphones” are becoming increasingly common. Soon it’ll be second nature to have internet, GPS, email etc. in the Palm of your hand. The sales of this thing and the iphone are probably more a testament of the changing times than they are of the superiority of the phone.

By: Uncle Belvis

Uncle Belvis — Thu, 26 Jun 2008 16:46:12 +0000

Well, at least we all know why the “I” in Boy Genius has the flashing bars on top of it. The iphone certainly has it’s share of copycats, but has every smartphone that has a full qwerty keyboard been called a knock-off of the Blackberry? It’s pretty obvious that people like the look of the iphone, so of course companies are going to give people what they want. This site is starting to annoy me more than inform me. Unlike when it started and everything seemed unbiased.

By: Adam

Adam — Thu, 26 Jun 2008 16:42:56 +0000

“So what exactly do the Instinct’s record sales tell us? People bound to Sprint wish they could get an iPhone.”

It doesnt tell us that at all. If you read it says most sales were upgrades, which means they had the option to leave if they really wanted an iphone. They chose to stay. Everyone always hating on everyone that isnt and iphone fanboy.

By: veks

veks — Thu, 26 Jun 2008 16:38:10 +0000

it will sell more once people find out you can put it on sero.

By: Deaf

Deaf — Thu, 26 Jun 2008 16:37:30 +0000

I recently played around with the Instinct and its fairly good however there are two cons to it. First being that the qwerty keys are too small, they need to be a bit larger. Secondly, I love the idea of watching TV on the Instinct however there’s no option for us 30 million people with hearing loss to watch TV with closed captioning.