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<div style="text-align: center;"> <spanstyle="font-family: georgia;"> </div> <spanstyle="font-size: medium;">The new mobile phone from Sprint, Samsung Instinct HD is packedwith lots of features, but it's not good enough to make me wantit.<spanstyle="font-size: medium;"> What's good?<spanstyle="color: #171717; display: block; text-align: center;"> <spanstyle="font-size: medium;">It has got a sleek design, a new inter-face (much better than mostSamsung phones), includes wi-fi and it includes a HD camera, 5.0megapixelswhich will give you videos and photos with an excellentquality. What's bad?<spanstyle="color: #171717; display: block;"><spanstyle="font-family: 'Courier New', Courier, monospace;"> I'dprefer a cheaper cell-phone, without HD. Right now, the Samsung Instinct isjust too expensive. The memory card slot is located behind the battery, so youhave to remove the battery and turn off the mobile phone to get the card. Thebrowser (Opera 9.7) is good, but not very easy to use.<spanstyle="font-size: medium;"> Review<img alt="" border="0"src="http://www.slashgear.com/wp-content/uploads/2009/09/Sprint_Samsung_Instinct_HD_SPH-m850_-516x499.jpg"style="cursor: hand; cursor: pointer; display: block; height: 499px; margin:0px auto 10px; text-align: center; width: 516px;" /><spanstyle="font-family: 'Courier New', Courier, monospace;"> <spanstyle="font-size: medium;">Features<spanstyle="font-family: 'Courier New', Courier, monospace;"> <spanstyle="font-family: 'Courier New', Courier, monospace;">The Instinct HD's 600-contact phone book is rather small, compared with most touch-screen phones.Each name can hold five phone number types, an e-mail address, an instant-message handle, a street address, a URL and notes.<spanstyle="line-height: 18px;"> <spanstyle="line-height: 18px;">TheInstinct HD isn't a smartphone, but you'll find a lot of features beyond thebasics. The handset offers Bluetooth, <span style="color:

black;"> USB mass storage, speaker-independent voicecommands, and instant messaging. It only<cent:linkint="http://reviews.cnet.com/cell-phones/samsung-jet/4505-6454_7-33686173.html">includes two "gesture controls": you can mute an incoming call and snooze thealarm clock by placing the phone screen down, and you can activate thespeakerphone when on a call by resting the handset face up on a flat surface.Wi-fi is one of the best improvements from itspredecessor.</cent:link><spanstyle="display: block;"> <spanstyle="display: block;">Opera 9.7 allows tabbed browsing, so you can keepmultiple pages open at once. That's a nice feature, but the interface forswapping between pages is visually overwhelming on a 3.2-inchscreen.<spanstyle="color: black;"> <spanstyle="line-height: 18px;">Sprintand Samsung are attracting a lot of buyers just for the HD camera. You canrecord HD videos, but you have to pay extra to experience HD in Mobile TV. HDvideos will fill up the phone memory. It comes with a 4GB card in the box, butas soon as 32GB microSD cards come up, Instinct HD will readthem.<spanstyle="line-height: 18px;"> <spanstyle="line-height: 18px;">Themusic player MP3 is relatively similar to that on the previous Instinctphones. The media player features are limited to repeat and shuffle modes, andsadly, you can't use your MP3 files asringtones.<spanstyle="font-size: medium;"> <spanstyle="font-size: medium;">The Instinct HD offers several widgets like Twitter, Facebook,Myspace and Youtube. It also includes a Google Maps widget.<spanstyle="line-height: 18px;"> <spanstyle="line-height: 18px;">BatteryLife<spanstyle="line-height: 18px;"> <spanstyle="line-height: 18px;">TheInstinct HD has a rated <ahref="http://reviews.cnet.com/4520-11288_7-6634891-9.html" style="border-bottom-width: 0px; border-color: initial; border-left-width: 0px; border-right-width: 0px; border-style: initial; border-top-width: 0px; cursor:pointer; font-style: inherit; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-top: 0px; padding-bottom: 0px; padding-left: 0px; padding-right: 0px; padding-top: 0px; text-align: left; text-decoration: none;vertical-align: baseline;">batterylife</a><span style="font-

size: medium;">of 5.8 hours talk time.<spanstyle="display: block;"> <spanstyle="display: block;">Design<spanstyle="display: block;"> <spanstyle="display: block;">The touch interface is quick and responsive. In thedefinitions, you can adjust the touch sensitivity and switch between a right-and a left-handed orientation. The vibrating feedback is helpful: you canchange its intensity or deactivate itcompletely.<spanstyle="font-size: medium;"> <spanstyle="font-size: medium;">The menu interface is similar to the previous Instinct models. Onthe top level there are three menu pages ("Main," "Fun," and "My Stuff") whereicons are arranged in a list or tile format according to their themes. There'salso a fourth page called "Faves" that you can populate with your chosenfeatures. For more personalization you can delete menu choices and rearrangethem. Games, GPS, and customization options can be found in the "My Stuff"menu, multimedia and social media apps like Facebook and Twitter are in the"Fun" menu, and standard options like messaging and the organizer are in the"Main" menu page.<spanstyle="font-size: medium;"> <spanstyle="font-size: medium;">The Instinct HD offers a full QWERTY keyboard with large buttons.The vertical keyboard is more spacious than you'd think, but we'd recommendagainst using it since the keys aren't arranged in the standard QWERTYformat.<spanstyle="line-height: 18px;"> <spanstyle="line-height: 18px;">Thepower control is located on the top of the Instinct HD next to the 3.5mmheadset jack, which is fantastic (you can use your ownphones)<spanstyle="line-height: 18px;"> <spanstyle="font-size: medium;">~The MobileReviewer