Samsung instinct hd android Instinct SPH-M800 Phone Review
Last year, the collective response to the mobile phone manufacturers as the iPhone has been rather modest. But now, Samsung tries a different tactic. Its new Samsung Instinct (SPH-M800), and Sprint is the first handset we've seen that throws some way that Apple's direct competition. We still reject the idea of an "iPhone killer" as ridiculous, but comparisons here are inevitable and Sprint is doing nothing to silence them.
Although the instinct and the iPhone look about the same, and they rely heavily on touch screens with unique interfaces, there are some important feature distinctions. The Instinct offers its own brand of visual voice mail, and bests the first incarnation of the iPhone by offering 3G (EV-DO Rev A) network compatibility, integrated GPS, and work e-mail support for n ' name a few. The new iPhone 3G will be more homogeneous, but even the Instinct gets points for its multimedia messaging, voice dialing and video recording. In important areas of usability and performance, however Instinct struggled on several fronts. The Web browser is not as easy to use as we had hoped, the camera lacked editing features, and the instinct to call and video quality were variable. But even with these caveats remain powerful instinct, cell phone with innovative features and attractive design charge.
Design
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By all accounts, a striking instinct but not unique, design. The predominance touch screen device sports a thin piece shape that measures a portable 4.57 inches by 2.17 inches 0.49 inches. This makes it a little bigger and fatter than the iPhone but also thinner when measured across the front. Samsung aficionados will also notice a resemblance to the Samsung SGH-F490, which is the GSM version of instinct. At 4.4 ounces, the instinct to feel solid in your hand and offers a solid construction. We also liked the simple color scheme of silver and basic black.
The Instinct touch screen dominates its real estate. With the support of 262,000 colors and a resolution of 432,240 pixels, the display is positively gorgeous. Colors jumped, graphics were vibrant, and text was crisp. In fact, it is one of the best screens we've seen from time to time. You are offered lots of customization options, and you can not change the menu or texting font, but you can adjust the brightness and the backlight. It should be noted that when the screen is dark, it also blocks automatically.
However, as rich as the display, we had a minor complaint. 3.1 inch, which is almost half an inch smaller than the iPhone screen. This may seem a big difference, but the screen tight you can see when browsing the Web or watch videos. We assume that after you get used to, and recognize that this is an improvement on the Samsung Glyde's touch screen, but this is something I could not pass up.
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The simple menu interface is easy to use instinct and attractive. At the bottom of the screen are icons for the four menus (favs, Main, Fun, and Web). The design of the four-page menu is an interesting and effective arrangement. The favorites menu (aka Favorites) is user programmable so you can store your most preferred functions. Main menu is reserved for messaging, organizer functions and GPS, the Fun menu holds games, multimedia options, and the camera, and the Web menu shows a selection of browser shortcuts. All menus are bright icons to represent different functions, but only the pleasure and Web menus allows for no customization. The secondary menus are intuitive as well. For example, we had no problems with the way they want to start a new text message or move items on a list.
The touch screen offers haptic tactile feedback Instinct. It is a nice feature because it lets you know for sure that you select a menu item. You can turn the vibration off but you can not change its length or intensity. For most it is the touch interface is intuitive and easy to use, but we had a few comments. Although some settings in the settings menu can be switched by sliding a bar back with your finger, other options require you to press on each side of the bar. Of course, we prefer the first option. By scrolling through long lists or messages was a pleasure, however. Similar to the iPhone, we just had to slide your finger up and down.
On the other hand, the instinct does not suffer disadvantages of usability we've seen on the Glyde. Seldom had to take the menu selections twice to register our choice. Additionally, the display recognized our selections when we touched around its edges. You can adjust the display calibration and its touch sensitivity.
Below the display are three small touch controls. No back button, home key, and monitored. Unfortunately, these keys are a bit 'difficult to use. A couple of times we had to press the control twice (the Back button in particular), is to register our choice. The vibrating feedback here is barely noticeable. Press the Home Control favorites usually automatically selecting the menu by calling control replaces the menu icons at the bottom of the screen with hot keys speed dialer, contacts menu, the list of recent calls, and the keyboard.
This option opens the standard numeric keypad, a large green button to talk. The individual numbers are large, and we want that there is a dedicated Save button to save the new phone numbers. Save button beneath the keyboard is sitting next to the control break and a link to the visual voicemail feature. The only complaint is that the letters of the numeric keys are tiny, blind people should test this phone before buying.
Instinct is $ 129 with a mail-in rebate and a two-year "Simply Everything" plan. Simply plans everything starts at $ 70 per month.
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After calling your number, press the green line to make the call. It was a bit against-intuitive to us - we wanted to press the call button on the screen - but once we knew what to do, it was not a problem. While on a call, a secondary menu appears on the screen with some clever shortcuts to mute the sound, activating the speakerphone, accessing your contacts list or the main menu, and place a call three-way. To end a call, you must slide the red bar on the right. This is a convenient arrangement as it minimizes the chances that you hang on every accident.
We were very pleased to see that the standard of the instinct of alphabetic keyboard lying. Therefore, we have been able to hold the phone with both hands and type away with your thumbs. The display includes a back button, a space bar, dedicated period, comma, apostrophe keys, a back control, and a dedicated button for accessing a secondary keyboard with numbers and symbols. Overall, the keyboard is easy to use, but we had a few gripes. The individual buttons should be large enough for most people, but users with larger hands may find the arrangement cramped. Also, while you can enlarge the text to see what you've written, you must minimize the keyboard to do, which is rather against-productive. The Instinct does not correct your spelling like the iPhone does.
Otherwise, you can enter text with a graffiti method. You will have to take the orientation of the display in portrait mode using the screen button - unlike the iPhone, the Instinct has an accelerometer. When using graffiti mode, the instincts to recognize most of our entries without any problem. The stylus is a big help for writing in the small space allowed, but unfortunately the Instinct does not include a storage slot for the stylus when you're away.
On the left side of instinct is a camera shutter, a voice-activated control and microSD card slot. A power supply / control of the lock screen and a headphone jack 3.5 (nice!) sitting on top of the phone and the port of loading and the volume control is on the left edge. The camera lens and self portrait mirror sit on the back of instinct, is a convenient place for all types of photos.
Instinct comes with a variety of accessories box. In addition, the charger and the headset needed, you will also find a USB cable, software CD and carrying case. It is up to an additional battery with a special case. You can feed a spare battery with the same charge and keep it on hand when you need emergency power. This is a nice touch.
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Feature
Address book holds 600 contacts with room instinct for each entry for five phone numbers, email address, URL and notes. All in all, it is a relatively small number of alternatives to high-end phone. On the other hand, you can save callers to groups and you can connect to photograph and one of 27 polyphonic ringtones. It is a fair choice, and we want to design the configuration that gave us the chance to try one or more tones as we'd like. Instinct also offers a vibrate mode when you want peace of mind.
Instinct, more efficient board in style, offering its own version of visual voice mail. Similar to the iPhone, each message is displayed in list format with the ID of the message sender, time received, and length. Then you can listen to messages from any order you choose. The service operates as if it had been expected.
Organizational functions are numerous and include text and multimedia messaging, a calendar, a notepad (you can use the keyboard or the graffiti method), calculator, unit converter, a tip calculator, alarm clock, timer, stopwatch and a world clock. Most of the organizational functions are easy to use and could not help but notice that the stopwatch and the timer look exactly as they do on the iPhone. On the downside, the calendar was a bit tight and does not allow a week. Also the world clock was rather buggy. Instead of writing the name of the city, you must select the exact location on the map and then touch your desired city in the highlighted box. It is a clumsy and imprecise process, we kept getting Buenos Aires when he tried to touch the map near New York. You can also show four cities at the same time.
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Other features include Bluetooth stereo profile complete, audible caller ID, a speakerphone, mobile syncing for stored contacts, and USB storage. Samsung includes phone as a modem support, but Sprint has not activated the feature. The Instinct also offers a voice command function that can be used extensively to dial phone calls or contacts, address a text or multimedia message, and access information like traffic, sports, weather, or news. No support text to speech, but the voice command function is integrated with a nifty Microsoft Live Search. Speaking on behalf of a company or type of business (like "pizza"), which uses the phone's GPS connection to search for the location of the neighborhood for a game. You can then get a map and directions for the company, went with a friend via a message or call to place with one touch. In our tests it worked very well.
Messaging options are plentiful and we were surprised by the clean and intuitive e-mail integration. Text messaging and multimedia messaging options are mostly standard but the Instinct goes a step further in its texture. Like the iPhone, it seems that the entire text of the discussion threads so that there is no need to order individual messages. Instant messaging was not present, though. This is a disappointing omission on the phone of this caliber.