All of you who’ve been waiting to check out the upcoming Samsung Instinct can commence salivating: Vincent has unboxed it and posted impressions, and it looks tasty!
The Instinct is primarily a touch-screen centric featured phone that’s wrapped up in a thin candy-bar form-factor; measuring 4.57 by 2.17 by 0.49 inches thick and weighs 4.4 ounces. The screen measures 3.1-inch offering 262,000-color touch screen, which will be your interface for almost all of the device’s functions including making and ending phone calls. There are three separate touch controls placed right below the display: a Back, Home and a shortcut control that will take you to the calling menu. I’m super thrilled that the Instinct features localized haptic feedback, a faint vibration to indicate you’ve pushed a button.
Before you dismiss it as an iPhone wannabe, you seriously need to go take a look…
Haptic feedback is one major feature missing from the iPhone, which we all hope Apple will implement into iPhone 2.0. A QWERTY keypad is available in landscape mode, which offers predictive text. You can touch-scroll through pictures and thumbnail galleries. The user-programmable Favorites menu is neat, as well, and I like the multitasking capability, which allows you to move between different functions easily. You can add applications but can’t put phone services because of the phone button already on the handset. Users can also add a music playlist, send an e-mail, store Web bookmarks, TV channels, a radio station, and more.
Watch the video, see the huge gallery, and read Vincent’s initial impressions. As much as I am (so completely and totally) over Sprint, I have to say that the Instinct looks mightly tempting. 
Link: PhoneMag – Samsung Instinct unboxing and Hands-on Video!
