Samsung Instinct M800
PLEASE LAY OFF THE SPRINT HATE!!! WHY IS IT SO STRONG?!?!?!?
play with it. its a GOOD phone. the screen is very responsive, it has all the features that you could want. i work for best buy mobile and i dont understand where all this hate against sprint is coming from. evry carrier is going to have dead zones. why is everyone acting like sprint is horrible. ive had sprint, nextel (when it was still straight nextel), and ATT, and honestly, i cant tell the difference between the coverage. of course if u live in the middle of nowhere (idaho, montana, dakatoas) there may not be as good of coverage as if u lived in a big city. all im saying is that the instinct is a very good phone that has as many, if not more, features as "The Almighty iPhone" so lay off the hate. The only thing that Apple has done better...
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They're mad because we got our '3G iPhone' early. By the way, how stupid of a name is iPhone 3g anyway? Does the average person even have a clue what 3G means?
Its a great phone. At my store, we've already sold 80 in two days, and got another 75 in today. Bring 'em on!
Its a great phone. At my store, we've already sold 80 in two days, and got another 75 in today. Bring 'em on!
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You got a 3G iPhone early? Really? How many 3rd party application vendors do you have lined up ready to write programs for the Instinct? You think you'll see a Slingplayer for the Instinct? Or be able to open email documents from the device? Do you think you've go a web browser on that REALLY competes with Safari on the iPhone? You don't even have a real OS on that device. the iPhone has OSX be it stripped down verison like Windows Mobile is to Windows. However, it still has a REAL OS. The Instict doesn't. Your Instinct today is all that it will ever be. You'll see nothing but bug and security patches at best for that thing.
The iPhone is ever evolving. Sprint made the mistake of comparing the Instinct to the iPhone when they should have...
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The iPhone is ever evolving. Sprint made the mistake of comparing the Instinct to the iPhone when they should have...
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ur att speed is ajoke and the iphone isnt the best seller to begin with because it pales in comparison to the blackberry. as for software upgrades the instinct is already rumored to have one coming in the next month and it wont just be a security patch. apple made the MISTAKE to be paired up with a company that is going to offer disgusting 3g coverage and abyssmal phone service. not to mention the fact that ur not looking at everything the iphone doesnt havew like video recording,rev.a,expandable memory,swappable battery. fanboy or not ur info is wrong and therefore it makes u sound amateur. iphone is a great phone stuck with a horrible carrier and im sorry to say but sprints tech is about 2 years ahead of att and with 4g already coming out ...
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You write like a child so I will assume you are one and not argue with you about the network difference. I have already "schooled" other users in the differences of the RevA and HSPDA capabilities. Unlike you or "u" as you 12 year olds write, my claims are based in facts that you can lookup if your parents allow you enough web time on the PC since I guess you'll have to wait a month or so for an "upgrade" from Sprint for a usable web browser on you Instink. 🤣
Please site your source for this upgrade and proof that its going to be out in a month and will include enhancements and not just patches. I am sure many already dissapointes Instink users would be interested as well. Back up your claims!
Please site your source for this upgrade and proof that its going to be out in a month and will include enhancements and not just patches. I am sure many already dissapointes Instink users would be interested as well. Back up your claims!
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3G is still a joke, especially compared to WiMax. Instinct DOES HAVE developers lined up to make software, Sprint already release SDK for it. Sprint also has it's hands on Android (Google OS) before anyone else. Sprint is looking much further than ATT. They are going to release so many devices that have capabilities ATT will never have.
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dmaldo said:
3G is still a joke, especially compared to WiMax. Instinct DOES HAVE developers lined up to make software, Sprint already release SDK for it. Sprint also has it's hands on Android (Google OS) before anyone else. Sprint is looking much further than ATT. They are going to release so many devices that have capabilities ATT will never have.
I'm sorry but which area's has WiMax been launched? 3G and HSDPA is no joke. Try telling that to the millions of European countries who are using it for video calling. But if you go there to ask them, better take another phone. Yours won't work. Also, with everything you've said you provided no links to FACTS and, even if EVERYTHING you said was completely ...
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While I agree a lot of these comments being made about sprint being so much better aren't all true, everyone should seriously go take a look a 3g coverage map for both ATT and Sprint. HSDPA is technologically the superior technology, but what does that matter for the Iphone 3G when the coverage isn't there? More people will be able to actually utilize the 3G of the Instinct than ANY phone on ATT. I could have a 30Mbit Fios connection at home, but that doesn't do me any good if I'm not at home.
And as for the customers leaving, perhaps everyone should do a bit more research as to what's happening. Everyone seems to forget about Nextel being a huge issue for Sprint's numbers. (I will agree Sprint's CS sucks, but it IS improving, if slo...
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And as for the customers leaving, perhaps everyone should do a bit more research as to what's happening. Everyone seems to forget about Nextel being a huge issue for Sprint's numbers. (I will agree Sprint's CS sucks, but it IS improving, if slo...
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Apparently that's not possible now, as ATT doesn't have a national coverage map for 3G even available, sorry. (wonder why they would do that? possibly because its not so great when you look at it on a national scale)
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i hate to burst UR bubble but i am a regional manager at sprint so i KNOW these things because i have to. its my job. i dont give two hairs off my ass whether u believe me or not.the facts are all right there. atts 3g coverage equals garbage. sprints coverage is far superior and their tech is ahead of att's by a long shot. say wut u want,im not here to be sold onto anything. i have the iphone and the instinct love them both but att's coverage is garbage and when the 3g phone comes out i for one will not purchase it simply because i need full 3g not the nonsense they are offering. 😎
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breethingmartyr said:
i hate to burst UR bubble but i am a regional manager at sprint so i KNOW these things
SURE YOU "R"... 🤣 🤣 🤣 🤣 🤣 🤣 🤣 🤣
And what are you going to be after Sprint is gone? CEO of IBM?
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Are you "schooled" well enough to know that HSDPA takes 4 times the bandwidth to do the same thing that EVDOrevA does? What if someone came out with EVDO revB which would use the same bandwidth as HSDPA and 4X the speeds. EVDO is a narrow band product that performs as well as the wide band product.
If it weren't for Verizon we may be talking about EVDV but they used their clout to shut it down.
HSDPA does an OK job for a knockoff of CDMA.
If it weren't for Verizon we may be talking about EVDV but they used their clout to shut it down.
HSDPA does an OK job for a knockoff of CDMA.
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HSPDA is currently as fast as EVDO but unlike EVDO Rev A, it has the capability to be much faster "as is" and is capped only by the provider. I didn't see anything in your post that proved differently.
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Ok evilhomer,
the Instinct HAS an open SDK just as the iphone has and iphone 3g will when it comes out. you talk a lot but you need to recheck your sources. Even though HSDPA is supposed to be the faster technology, ATT doesn't have the 3G coverage to support it as of yet and it will be awhile. And what would you call a "real" OS? Just because they didn't sit and develop an OS with Windows or Symbian doesn't make it NOT a "real" OS. If its an OS, its an OS. Another thing. The Instinct is NOT a PDA focused phone. The iPhone is. The Instinct is a MEDIA phone. And although the iPhone browser may be wonderfully superior to others (I'm jealous), there is another browser in development that's still a beta that walks all over the iPhone...
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the Instinct HAS an open SDK just as the iphone has and iphone 3g will when it comes out. you talk a lot but you need to recheck your sources. Even though HSDPA is supposed to be the faster technology, ATT doesn't have the 3G coverage to support it as of yet and it will be awhile. And what would you call a "real" OS? Just because they didn't sit and develop an OS with Windows or Symbian doesn't make it NOT a "real" OS. If its an OS, its an OS. Another thing. The Instinct is NOT a PDA focused phone. The iPhone is. The Instinct is a MEDIA phone. And although the iPhone browser may be wonderfully superior to others (I'm jealous), there is another browser in development that's still a beta that walks all over the iPhone...
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What exactly should I talk about in a phone forum other than technology?
To set the record straight, I didn't start the Instinct vs iPhone debate. Sprint and the posters in this forum did. I believe I have the right to respond to that.
You are correct that AT&T's 3G coverage is less than that of Sprint but they do have 3.5G in some area's including mine and in running DSL reports from my N95-4 (see, I'm not just and iPhone fanboy) on it I am getting faster download speeds than my co-worker withe the new Instinct. Will this vary from place to place. Probably, but we are all talking about what works for us in our areas.
Sprint guys keep talking about the lack of 3G being widespread and that AT&T "isn't there yet with it's HSPDA" co...
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To set the record straight, I didn't start the Instinct vs iPhone debate. Sprint and the posters in this forum did. I believe I have the right to respond to that.
You are correct that AT&T's 3G coverage is less than that of Sprint but they do have 3.5G in some area's including mine and in running DSL reports from my N95-4 (see, I'm not just and iPhone fanboy) on it I am getting faster download speeds than my co-worker withe the new Instinct. Will this vary from place to place. Probably, but we are all talking about what works for us in our areas.
Sprint guys keep talking about the lack of 3G being widespread and that AT&T "isn't there yet with it's HSPDA" co...
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I agree with you. Everyone is entitled to their opinion. The problem is when people take everything too seriously and start making up facts just to defend their point. A lot of the people that comment on here have never had Sprint or ATT or an iPhone. A lot of people make up their mind that they don't like something before they even get a chance to try it out for themselves. I have Sprint and I have the Instinct but I'm not gonna hate on ATT and the iPhone just because I have this phone. That doesn't make any sense to me. Its good to have a nice discussion but some people take it way too far and can't even support any of the "information" that they provide.
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Mainly because Sprint looses more customers daily to other carriers than any other Carrier, that is why , all due to Customer service and coverage.
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stevensocal said:
Mainly because Sprint looses more customers daily to other carriers than any other Carrier, that is why , all due to Customer service and coverage.
You'd THINK they'd get that by now... 🙄
I'm sorry but if your service, coverage, call quality, data network, and devices are superior to all others, as is frequently claimed by the Sprint users here, you WOULD NOT be the number THREE carrier in the US and sinking fast. You would NOT be bleeding customers in the millions. You would NOT have to be giving away your service and signing up crappy credit customers in droves. If you are the best at everything, you succeed unless your company is run by morons incapable of making ANY intellig...
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evilhomer,
U need to get off ATT's jock. Being a user of both Sprint and ATT I can attest that Sprint > ATT in every way except possibly customer service. Bottom line though is the most important comparison would be how the phone works as that, a phone and I absolutely dread using my ATT phone for phone calls simply because the call quality is so poor. Interference, static, distortion is included with any and every call made/received. It's pretty much guaranteed to be an issue. If you're in a moving car the problems increase exponentially. Only on my Sprint phone do I get clear calls with little to no interference. And you want to talk about coverage? Sprint is leaps and bounds over ATT there too simply because Sprint roams on Verizon fo...
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U need to get off ATT's jock. Being a user of both Sprint and ATT I can attest that Sprint > ATT in every way except possibly customer service. Bottom line though is the most important comparison would be how the phone works as that, a phone and I absolutely dread using my ATT phone for phone calls simply because the call quality is so poor. Interference, static, distortion is included with any and every call made/received. It's pretty much guaranteed to be an issue. If you're in a moving car the problems increase exponentially. Only on my Sprint phone do I get clear calls with little to no interference. And you want to talk about coverage? Sprint is leaps and bounds over ATT there too simply because Sprint roams on Verizon fo...
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Please spell your words correctly. You said "looses" and it sounds like you're referring your anus rather that a cell phone company.
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to me you all are trying to hate on the iPhone and it wont stick. Apple came out with the very 1st interface for touch and its all about using your finger. Now all these phone carriers are playing catch up. True AT&T's coverage may not be the best in the world but has anyone really stop and thought about this. While Microsoft keeps screwing up on Vista and more and more people are running far away from Vista there running to MAC. and now their playing with apps like iTunes, iPhoto,iDVD,iWeb and Mobile Me all from Apple. No 3rd party vindor, nothing to download, no special apps you have to hunt for and the phone is not nudered where you have to stay on AT T's network like sprint when your surf the web. Sprint has always sucked at customer ser...
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ohh and one more thing; this stupid phone can not interface with iTunes, iPhoto,iDVD or Safari ir iCal so while people such as myself are big time Apple users why would we be a sucker and by this phone? and if anyone says that you can; you just have to down load software for it, that goes right back to what I said about 3rd party apps and having to download crap that you end up wasting your time on. 👿
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you name all of the Apple based products and that Mac users wanna use these programs that they're familiar with and not a 3rd party. that's because they're Mac users and are most likely gonna buy an iPhone over any other. Is that supposed to be surprising. Also, Apple does have and SDK for the iPhone so there are 3rd party apps. It would be less profitable not to. It makes the phone more versatile to have 3rd party developers just as there is an SDK for the Instinct. Also, even though Vista is so "buggy," which I use Vista and I have no issues or lockups, most PC users are Windows users so I don't see where your point would be relevant. It doesn't sync with Apple products, first of all because Apple has patents on their products and i...
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all be it that I know Apple's reputation is on the line when it comes to this iPhone; Vista is not the best in the world, even Microsoft admitts to that. I have 2 co workers who complain that any app they run after upgrading there home pc's for video and memory cards will still cause there pc's to freeze or crash on them after running a simple application. Now if you have Parallels which is designed to run Windows XP as well as Vista on a MAC you pretty much can see that the programing that was written to run parallels is really unique in the fact that if Vista or Windows was to crash it wouldn't take down your whole MAC system. I do believe they are making it more difficult this time around to try and unlock the phone; but hey where's there...
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That is so true, Apple is what sell the Iphone. If it was on Sprint's network noone would talking all this madness. Although ATT does get alot of great phones.. sprint was first to come out w/ mobile tv and has by far more channels than most compaanies. which has no relevance to the comment but it just came out.
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actually...apple didnt design the FIRST touch interface device...research a little more please...older PDAs have had touch screen before the iPODS had touch volume...please come correct or be prepared to be corrected...
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is so refreshing to see how someone picks at someones comments but disregards what there actually saying. Had you read my comments, was not about who invented the first PDA but who came out with a simplified version of OS on a touch screen phone. so in seeing that you rather cherry pick on a argument it would seem quite like desperate attempt to get attention. on something you your self no little or nothing about, but thats OK; maybe next time you'll be more apt to carefully read what someone has written before over shooting the mark.
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