“The parade of iPhone lookalikes continues. Soon after Apple announced the first iPhone a year ago, factories in Asia, at the behest of U.S. phone carriers, were asked to respond to the sleek, touch-screen device. Some already have reached America; more are coming,” Walter S. Mossberg repots or The Wall Street Journal.
“The latest to arrive is the Samsung Instinct, to be introduced by Sprint on June 20. I’ve been testing the Instinct, and while it isn’t a bad phone and has some features the Apple product lacks, it’s no match for the iPhone,” Mossberg reports. “The manufacturers haven’t replicated the iPhone’s greatest strength: beautiful, powerful, breakthrough software.”
MacDailyNews Take: Samsung’s Instinct doesn’t even offer Wi-Fi. Yes, you read that right.
Mossberg continues, “I don’t do full reviews of products until I have tested them extensively, but my first impressions of the 3G iPhone are largely positive. The price of the new iPhone’s base model, which comes with 8 gigabytes of memory, is $199, a 50% price cut from the comparable first-generation model. Yet, it now works on AT&T’s fastest data network, promising anywhere from two to five times the speed of its predecessor. It also has GPS for tracking your location, and fully supports over-the-air synchronization of email, contacts and calendars — through Microsoft Exchange in corporations or via a similar new consumer service from Apple called MobileMe. And you’ll be able to download directly to the phone a whole universe of third-party programs, from productivity software to games.”
“While the Instinct is a touch-screen device, it lacks the iPhone’s ‘multi-touch’ system, which includes features that recognize multiple fingers and gestures, and allows actions like shrinking a photo by ‘pinching’ it. The touch system on the Instinct is more like that on an ancient ATM than a cutting-edge gadget,” Mossberg reports. “…Physically, the Instinct looks a lot like the iPhone — a dark slab without a physical keyboard or many buttons dominated by a large screen. It’s a bit longer and thicker than the iPhone, but a tad narrower and lighter. Its screen is smaller than the iPhone’s and has lower resolution… [The Instinct also] comes with just one-quarter of the memory the base iPhone includes… It’s no iPhone.”
Read the full review here.
Samsung and Sprint should be ashamed. As our own SteveJack wrote back in April: “It’s the same old, same old in an iPhone-inspired wrapper… You can judge the distance behind and overall cluelessness of iPhone’s future roadkill by the amount they copy the iPhone’s exterior… The question I’m left with for [all] of these companies rolling out imitation iPhones this year is: Exactly how stupid do you think your customers are?”
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An ancient ATM touch screen. LOL.. The sad part is, a lot of users will be fooled by Samsung into thinking the screen works like an iPhone.
Cool for Mossberg to point that out. Unlike all those tech booger…I mean bloggers who never ever mentions that the touchscreen on it is nothing new or special.
@wish you weren’t
I agree with feedback… no one has time to read that convoluted mess and we certainly don’t have time for stories.
I did, however enjoy your second post.
Don’t have time to read stories, but have plenty of time to check rumor sites all day…..hmmmmm
“Now that you’ve opened my eyes, I’ll be more careful in the future”
Period?
<ducks>
And I “sincerly” wish registered posters had the ability to edit posts.
(kidding and not kidding at the same time)
@ Follower
My only point was that if a person took the time to comment on every grammatical error in these posts, that’s how he would spend his entire day. I ignore the one’s that bother me, why not do the same? As a common courtesy, as you say. As a matter of fact, I go out of my way to try and make my posts very readable, although the one under discussion turned into a little bit of a rant.
(return!)
This isn’t English class, I promise to throw some paragraph breaks in on my dissertation.
@ Ampar
When I looked at the post, I knew those two would come back to haunt me. lol
Okay, I’m done with this, not worth it.
Oh yeah…..Suck on THAT, Mac dorks.
I to prefer a flip phone for the size factor. Very small on my hip, easy to answer. Yes I like the iPhone but I don’t want to look like I just came from a Star Trek convention either.
In a nutshell, “I know the iPhone; The iPhone is a well-designed device of mine. Samsung Instinct, you’re no iPhone.”
Lipstick on a pig.
@Think…. ever try your pocket? I fits well enough in there to not even be noticed..
iphone fan boys, what u apparently haven’t read is that the new $199 iphone’s plan is going to cost more making it less expensive to buy a old iphone over a two year agreement and if you had done a tad bit of research you would find that most of iphones parts are made in china and other such developing countries,and assembled in the United States. how about instead of making love to your precious iphone keep an open mind and do some research
Wow, you Europeans had flip phones in the late 90’s. Man, you guys are so far advanced.
(clue: Big Al’s post was ironic humor)
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