Samsung Instinct M800 / User Reviews

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

This is definitely for 3rd world country.
No suitable for anything other than for Voice and texting.
Poor network performance.
Can't download apps.
Poor after sale support. No driver downloads to work with Windows 7.
Samsung make good flat screen TVs but not cell phones.
No patches or fixes for... More

I have had this phone for 11 months. It has been sent away to be repaired three times. The web browser won't connect on a regular basis, text messages come in under the wrong sender name, it freezes while checking voicemail and I can't turn it off so I have to take out the battery to turn... More

At first I liked it but as time went on the battery wouldnt last more then one day, and it would take a long time to type a text message. Now my phone just DIED while I was in the middle of texting someone!!??!??! Its only been just a week over one year!!!! To me a phone should last more then one year... More

Ive had this phone for a year, and although it is expensive, i like it.

Pros:
- ive dropped in NUMEROUS times. although the siding chips very easily, nothing happens to the phone internally, or the screen.
- internet is very fast
- i havent even experienced a full inbox. it never gets full, its amazing.
-... More

I don't understand why everyone is having such problems with this phone I find it works very well. Everything is fast infact I get texts faster than any of my friends and I can send and recieve without having any service. I will say though that it will sometimes freeze every so often but not enough... More

I can't emphasize enough how much I hate this phone. Everytime I use it, I curse at it. I'm stuck with this stupid phone, and like another reviewer said, by the time you've used it and figured out it is useless, it is too late and Bell won't exchange it. You can't see it in... More

I must say at first, I loved it. The web is pretty nice and easy layout, it's also fast. The sound is good and applications on it are great. However, over time the texting has been getting horrible, it CONSTANTLY registers the wrong letters, and I mean constantly, it takes me forever to type anything... More

I am with Bell Mobility (Bell Canada) and I hate this phone with passion. Bell wants $400. to get out of my contact, and if I do so what do I do with this dumb phone? I tried to cancel my 3 year contract the day after I got it and they refused. Fo some reason they dont fall within the regular consumer... More

The worst phone ever!!
This crab was my b-day gift from my husband, I wanted the I-phone, but because Bell didn't have it, my sweet husband got me this crab.
1. I can't get access to my e-mail (I pay $8.00 a month) I can't never use it
2. I get my text messages hours after
3. I can't... More

I have owned this phone about a year or so now and have never been able to surf the web or access my google calendar the way the sprint sales person told me it would. slow and disappointing results. I should have stayed with my metro pcs phone since all I am using the phone for now besides calling is... More

I've had the phone a year. The battery is lasting about a day.
It's also taken to making random calls without any help from me - my babysitter no doubt loves that - probably thinks I am a stalker and another friend called and yelled at me to stop waking her kids up.

Keyboard is small - but... More

this is the absolute worst phone in the world, it keeps freezing, the touch screen stopped working, i have taken it in 3 times already, and still having problems with it, would not recommend this to anyone

Ive had this phone for 6 months. Its been in repair for 2 of those months total.

Issues:
-freezes
-turns on randomly, and makes pocket phone calls
-lies about who sent the text msg
-gets stuck between landscape and portrait when texting
-wont vibrate

I was told that each time i sent it out, all of... More

I got this phone when my old razor (which I had had for over three years) crapped out. I got this phone Sept/08 and it has been a problem since I got it. Crashing constantly, not playing videos. About a month ago the charging cable would not click in, therefore had to start taping the charging cable... More

I absolutely fell in love with this phone. The look, the touch screen, sleeknes. But I've had nothing but problems since I bought it. 2 months after I got it "the While You Were Out" screen would give me random names, dates, times - not a big deal, but after all the money I paid and... More