Technical support representatives on the official Sprint discussion forum have disclosed more details about the eagerly awaited software update for the Samsung Instinct. The phone was released in June to generally good reviews. However there have been some complaints primarily about the browser functionality, online speed and Sprint TV performance. Sprint is not giving a specific date when this update will be available other than stating “this month” and “over the air”.

Here are the categories of issues that the product management team has been looking at and an example of something that will be fixed. This list is not a comprehensive statement of everything that is gong to be fixed but should give you an understanding of the types of things you will see corrected.

Physical device — better volume though bluetooth headsets
Picture Mail — reduction of ‘system busy’ errors when sending large picturemails
Browser — more user friendly customer access to Hotmail accounts, Best Buy,YouTube and Yahoo! sites.
Sprint TV — reduction of pausing and freezing during playback of streaming video clips
Navigation — navigation session will not longer run in background after user goes to ‘home menu’. This will improve battery life
E-mail — save e-mail address to the favorites menu
Music — removal of periodic ‘skips’ when listening via bluetooth headset
News — increased ability to play news story video clips
Voicemail — phone can now present voicemail notifications when device is not in data service

It’s this month. It’s got some great fixes. It’s Over The Air. Be patient.

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