Samsung Instinct - Still use it (HD), if not why?

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Still use it (HD), if not why?

« on: March 09, 2010, 05:19:21 PM »

I love this phone but want them to work out the kinks. The thing has a terrible battery life, lags a few times a day, slow rendering, no flash player and a phone like this should have apps. This one is working out a lot better than the original, still some improvements are in order and would like some input from the board.


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Re: Still use it (HD), if not why?

« Reply #1 on: March 09, 2010, 10:11:05 PM »

1 1/2 minutes to boot up is terrible
being kicked out to the tv menu while watching a movie instead of continuing where you were if you ignore a call or text
Choice of all Html view on the browser instead of wap defaults for some websites should be added
HD specific made apps would be nice
flash for multipal shots on the camera would be a nice option
flash for opera mobile
multi-touch, pinch to zoom
faster load time for games or apps like facebook
a better twitter app
animated gifs in text messages or picture mail to work instead of showing only one frame
being able to view pics in email instead of saving them to view would be nice
google maps to use " my location " and the gps would make google maps actually useful...

pretty much everything they won't bother fixing is what i'm hoping for

other than that, I'm glad I upgraded...there's more I like than don't...hope they do something soon


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Re: Still use it (HD), if not why?

« Reply #2 on: March 10, 2010, 09:02:48 AM »

You pretty much nailed my complaints on the head Psycho and were right that they will probably never address these issues although i am hoping for an Opera Mobile upgrade once 10 is released and hopefully it will allow full HTML or at least the option. No Pandora is kinda stupid, for this phone not to have an option the original did is just plain retarded. My main complaint is that when listening to almost any kind of media.. radio, tv, music etc the lowest volume setting is still quite loud. I enjoy how loud the phone will go but why cant we have it both ways, the old instinct wasnt loud enough and this one wont get quiet enough. That is all for now. I have alot of new games i need to post that i have found to work pretty well and will do that hopefully sometime today.


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Re: Still use it (HD), if not why?

« Reply #3 on: March 19, 2010, 11:19:20 PM »

The freezing/lagging and occasional scrambled screen when typing a text are pet peeves of mine. I'm on my 4th one and kind of pissed because Sprint gave me a refurb that has obvious cosmetic defects of which mine had none(probably because I never had any of the previous 3 long enough). Anyway, the constant press a button and wait....wait....wait for the phone to respond is maddening. This one already won't update to the latest email software version so I guess I should keep taking it back until I get one that can. It shouldn't be a big deal, but since I keep having to delete and re-enter my Juno email account once a week because it stops downloading my mail, I feel like maybe this new version of the software won't have that problem...and maybe they cave and give me a newer looking phone like the one I let them swap mine for.


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Re: Still use it (HD), if not why?

« Reply #4 on: March 22, 2010, 07:55:44 AM »

I'm hoping they continue improving the Instinct line, all the post here echo mine. This is a super phones that need a few tweaks. Don't see any reason no app store, Samsung's, hasn't come about because the HD is a better platform than the original


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Re: Still use it (HD), if not why?

« Reply #5 on: April 04, 2010, 09:09:42 AM »

I thought this would be kept for a while but with the Evo coming out it may only get play for a few more months. I want some apps, multi-tasking, front cam and flash player. Truth be told I wanted ptt too but wouldn't care if some of the othe stuff is covered.


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