Operating System

I am a real novice and have a similar question. I have owned a Palm Treo for years and love that I have a couple of airline schedules that I download to it. I also have several others that I like and make my life easy. I assume these apps are only for the Palm OS. Will the software guys write programs allowing me to download lots of apps to the Instinct like I can on the Palm?

I have seen articles saying windows mobile, Java, brew and even UI One.  Doubt its windows mobile when looking at the videos.  The HTC Touch had a little UI on top of windows mobile, but you could see the windows look and feel in the applications.  Looking at this device, nothing like that at all.  Most likely Java and Brew like other sprint phones (developer.sprint.com).  There are thousands of applications writting in Java (known to be downloadable to devices) so I bet the applications people want will be available.  One artcile said corporate e-mail, so don't need outlook on the device rather an application that can interact with a windows exchange server.

Yes this is a specific UI built for the Instinct, its an offshoot of the Sprint UI system and thats bout it.

java/brew

amandag  it does have an option under email to add other accounts if you scroll past the pre configured ones in the menu. you can setup email thru the imap address and configure it and it should work with GW but you won't have access to the calendar. although you could runt he GW plugin for Outlook and then use the connection manager to update things that way and it might work for you as a workaround although a bit more complicated. Maybe someone over at novell will get notifylink to work on the instinct then it will do all that stuff for us. =) I just got this info from one of our guys and i've gotta get my usb cable so i can try it all but but its worth a shot for you to try anyway.

Actually I have had success opening word documents from e-mail attachments. I'm not sure about the .docx, but .doc works just fine.

I used Blackberry OS, Palm OS, Windows Mobile, and now, samsung instinct, this phone is useless, I think so, I cannot do anything if I have no connect to sprint services, not app, not gps, not game, not rington, f*** the phone !!!