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

Looks like Sprint intends to keep the lid on pricing for their upcoming iPhone wannabe - aka the Sprint Instinct - until some time after the 3G iPhone launches. An article Thursday in Computerworld quotes Sprint director of product commercialization David Owens as denying that the Sprint Instinct is an iPhone copycat because…

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