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April 2, 2008 at 7:13am
by thecodepounder Well, I’m sure Apple is just shaking in its boots over this announcement.
Sprint Nextel Corp. on Tuesday said it is betting heavily on a touch-screen phone that appears to be the closest thing the U.S. market has seen to Apple Inc.’s vaunted iPhone.
The Samsung Instinct will be available in June for a yet undetermined price, Sprint announced at CTIA Wireless, a cell-phone industry trade show in Las Vegas. Executives hinted that the price would be substantially lower than the $399 for the cheapest iPhone.
The Instinct will have a few features the iPhone lacks. For one, it will be the first consumer phone in the U.S. to use EV-DO Rev. A, the fastest cellular broadband technology available on the Sprint and Verizon Wireless networks.
The Instinct won’t be able to take input from more than one finger at a time: The iPhone’s characteristic “pinch to zoom out, spread to zoom in” feature won’t work. Sprint compensates for this by using the phone’s motion sensor. In a demonstration of a prototype, tilting the phone while holding a button made a Web page scroll.
Good for Sprint! They deserve to have a phone that in TV commercials will look like it’s nearly as good as the iPhone, just like Verizon has with their LG Voyager! Of course, to put this in mathematical terms, it sound to me like the Instinct will be to the 3G iPhone (also rumored to be out around June) as the Zune (or maybe the Zen) is to the iPod…
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