Starting June 30 Sprint will feature a promotion that promises to pay you $20 to feature the Samsung Instinct in a YouTube video. There are no details yet (check the link below on June 30) and participation will be limited to the first 1,000 videos posted. Not to be overly obvious here, but I’m pretty sure they’re looking for a favorable appearance for their phone. Things like running a Samsung Instinct over with your car, lighting it on fire with rubbing alcohol or popping popcorn with it won’t earn the $20.

Link: Samsung Instinct YouTube $20 Promotion

Do you have Samsung Instinct fever? Eager to get your hands on the latest iPhone lookalike from Sprint? One lucky forum poster at the SprintUser Forums managed to score a Samsung Instinct a full 4 days prior to the expected official on sale date of June 20. The price paid was $449 for an upgrade (unknown if this will be the final no contract price). For more pictures and links - check out the next page.
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The user manual for the Samsung Instinct has been posted online. I always find reading the manual a useful way to figure out whether the phone has all the features that I want. Earlier we noted that the Samsung Instinct will NOT be compatible with Sprint SERO. A reader emailed me this morning to share a reply from Sprint that addresses the question of what plan the Instinct must be used with. Keep reading for the Sprint response to the “Will the Samsung Instinct work with Sprint SERO” as well as a link to the Samsung Instinct manual online.

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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

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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