Samsung Instinct HD SPH-M850
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Samsung Instinct HD SPH-M850 Reviews
Samsung Instinct HD
The Instinct family has been all about budget-friendly pricing for quality features, such as a full HTML browser, a music store, a 3.5mm headphone jack, and a decent touchscreen experience. The Instinct HD goes in a different direction with such features as a 5-megapixel camera, HD video recording, Wi-Fi, and a smart phone-like $249 price tag. While the Instinct HD has enough features to sound like a jack of all trades, it costs more than many of today’s hottest smart phones, which offer a lot more apps and a more robust experience when it comes to e-mail, messaging, and social networks. The original Instinct was a rectangular device that measured 4.5 x 2.1 x 0.4 inches and weighed 4.4 ounces. Then Samsung updated the Instinct line with the more rounded and lighter 3.9-ounce Instinct s30. The Instinct HD measures 4.6 x 2.3 x 0.5 inches and weighs 4.0 ounces, which is closer in size to the original, but it maintains the rounded facade of the s30 and has a glossy black-and-silver color scheme. Its 3.2-inch, 480 x 320 touch display (with haptic feedback) dominates the front of the phone, and there are touch-sensitive Return, Home, and Call buttons below it that each glow white.
Samsung Instinct HD Review
In the last couple of weeks, Sprint announced that it would start selling the HTC Hero Android phone on October 11 – the same day that Samsung’s Instinct HD goes on sale. Not only will the Hero steal the Instinct's thunder, though. It will – and should – steal its customers as well. Up and down, the Hero is superior in every way except one: The inclusion of an HD camcorder, a first for cellular phones. Mind you, it's not that the Samsung Instinct HD is a bad option as mobile handsets go. But in the face of the cheaper Hero and even cheaper Palm Pre, both of which offer open operating systems, realize. With its clunky proprietary OS, the Instinct HD is, save for the exception of the high-definition camcorder, nearly an instant anachronism. For its third take on the Instinct, Samsung has changed the handset’s form factor from long and tall to a more normal touchscreen phone shape, slightly bulging on the sides. Set within this wider profile is also a more standard 3.2-inch 320x480 touchscreen, replacing the tall/thin 240x432 display. Still, what has always differentiated the Instinct from other touchscreen phones is haptic feedback on almost every touch control you tap.
Samsung Instinct HD SPH-M850
Sprint Nextel stole the CTIA show last year when it introduced the Samsung Instinct. There was a lot to like about the touch-screen phone, so we were hopeful that Samsung would build on its successes with subsequent models. To our initial delight, the made the rounds at CTIA this year, but we quickly were disappointed that it offered only a slimmer design. Even worse, Samsung actually removed features found on the first model. Could it be that the S30 was all Sammy had to offer? Luckily, the answer is no. As summer rolled into autumn, Sprint got a jump on the holiday season by unveiling the Instinct's long-awaited successor. The Instinct HD, aka the SPH-M850, is both an upgrade and an improvement. It offers a sleeker design, a brighter display, and more features. We're a bit ambivalent about the much-hyped "high-definition" support, but it remains a compelling multimedia phone that does a lot of things well. The price, however, is a tad galling: at $249 with a two-year Sprint Everything plan and a $100 mail-in rebate, the Instinct HD will cost you more than the HTC Hero, the excellent Google Android smartphone. Sure, the HD camera is nice, but we'd rather pay for real productivity than flashy multimedia.
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