Samsung Instinct M800 / Reviews

The Samsung Instinct is no iPhone, nor is it an iPhone killer. It is, however, an amazingly feature packed touch based phone with a reasonable user interface. It has many highlights that are going to thrill a lot of users, and it still manages to offer a lot of visual bang for the buck when it comes... More

To call the Samsung Instinct an iPhone knockoff would be an understatement of grotesque proportions. Seriously: Even the packaging looks like it came straight outta Cupertino.
With its buttonless face and black monolithic look, the all-touchscreen Instinct is immediately familiar: It's virtually the... More

These phones are pretty useless for making phone calls..Very poor connectivity in a high bandwidth are...Forget about web..Reminds me of the old 300 baud modem...Slow very slow and crashes all the time.
Can read screen under normal daylight..Full brightness is set.
Sprint never made good on the phone... More

Pros: Durable touchscreen for HTML web-browsing, texting, photos, and phone calls.

Cons: Can be a bit sluggish at times, lacks 3G and WiFi.

Overall: While I wouldn't call it a smart phone, it is pretty darn close. This phone has the best of both worlds: quality phone calls and texting abilities... More

And that sums it up! This phone is buggy as hell! I've used the flash update feature many times hoping there would be fixes, but it just keeps doing weird things. It likes to just lock up or reboot itself randomly, and sometimes after I delete voicemails it keeps telling me I have a voicemail.

I've... More

I've been a loyal LG phone user until buying the Samsung Instinct.
At first I was not the biggest fan of the phone for the following reasons:
- no signature (no big deal)
- privacy issues (phone displays a portion of incoming text and name/number of caller)
- I initially found it tricky to unlock... More

Had this phone with telus. It freezes all the time and the connection is horrible. If you try to check your voicemails the friggin keypad freezes so you have to pull the battery out and turn the phone on again. Out of every 10 times you check your voicemail, 7 times it will freeze. Unbelievable. Stay... More