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…

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The Samsung Instinct demo units are beginning to arrive at corporate Sprint stores. If you just can’t wait to get a peek, check with your local store and see if they’ve received one. These are demo units and the full Sprint Instinct inventory is not expected to arrive in stores until June 20, 2008. PhoneNews.com has an interesting post suggesting that since iPhone 2 (aka 3g iPhone) is expected to leapfrog the Instinct’s feature set that Sprint may be forced to slash the Instinct pricing to roughly half of whatever the final iPhone price is.

Link: PhoneNews.Com - Instinct to Fade Against Second iPhone
Link: Instinct smart phone to require Sprint data plan at $69.99 per month