Feb 20 2011
Samsung Instinct Review
Posted by: CameraPhonesPlaza in Samsung
Samsung Instinct is the touchscreen you would buy if you are interested in messaging capabilities and GPS services. The phone comes with some other great features, but it shines especially when it comes to those mentioned. Among others you can admire the sleek design, easy-to-use features that are also very intuitive.
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Unfortunately, this phone lacks some of the characteristics and some of the demands that would turn it into a real smartphone: Wi-Fi and instant messaging. And of course, Apple iPhone being the phone of the moment, most of every cell phone pulled out by another manufacturer is being compared to it. The phone wins in some sectors such as multimedia messaging, video recording, GPS and work-email support. These said, Samsung Instinct is a functional phone with a sleek look.

If you look at it, you can tell it is a good-looking phone, measuring 4.57 inches by 2.17 inches by 0.49 inch and weighting 4.4 ounces. It feels solid when you hold the phone in your hands and it also looks nice in the black or silver scheme. But because the main focus is placed upon the display, in this case it is also true and Samsung Instinct has reasons to be proud of it. It features a gorgeous display with a pixel resolution of 432x240 and supports 262.000 colors. Everything showed on the screen looks like popping out, colors are bright, graphics are sharp. You can also choose to personalize some of the features of the screen and when the display goes black, the phone gets blocked automatically.
Also worth mentioning is the size of the display, 3.1”. The size is reasonable, but you will feel a bit the difference when you will be visiting some web page and scrolling through some documents. The menu interface is easy to use and it looks good. You have four menus to choose from at the bottom of the display, each with their own widgets. You have the Favs menu, the Main, Web and Fun. And if you feel like customizing, you should know that only the Fun and Web menus can be changed.

With the haptic feedback you will always know when you have pressed a certain function. If you don’t like the feature you can always turn it off. Scrolling through menus, settings, your media files is a pleasure and you will like how smooth the experience is. You can adjust the touch sensitivity if you are the one who likes to easily tap on the screen or, on the contrary, be more firm. Below the display you can see there are three touch controls, the calling control, Home key and the Back button. The numbers on the keypad are large and you will be able to dial the correct number. And when it comes to entering text, you can use the alphabetic keyboard, which turns to landscape mode whenever you turn the phone. You can easily type holding your phone in both hands.

Among other features, the organizational ones, you can choose from plenty: SMS and MMS, calendar, notepad, unit convertor, calculator, world clock, stopwatch, Bluetooth, speakerphone, USB storage. One feature worth mentioning is the Microsoft Live Search, meaning you can speak the name of a business or food, coffee shop and a list will appear with information, directions and locations for that certain business.











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