Instinct Kills It - Full Iphone Comparison

Ok, the instinct lacks a few things when compared to the iphone 3G. For one one Wi-Fi would have been nice to see on the instinct but with Rev A, ok not to bad. Second the iphone has multi touch, a nice feature to have especially for web pages and images. Beyond that the instinct is way a way better overall device. The instinct has(over the iphone) #1) JAVA, in my opinion Java is more wide spread with more developers. No Native JAVA Support for iphone EVER!!. #2) EV DO Rev. A (Still faster on download, but much faster on upload, Rev A was designed that way.) Plus Sprints nationwide roll out makes it much more likely to be where the masses are. as opposed to AT&T's 3G roll out (trust me I worked as an auditor for AT&T and their UMTS or 3G roll out is not close to finished in the metro NY area, and that's a large market) #3) Video Recording - nuff said. #4) Streaming TV and Radio #5) Stereo Bluetooth output with voice activate from headset #6) External expansion ie. Micro SD card #7) Haptic feedback #8) 3 Buttons to help with navigation (in my opinion a much better idea.) #9) Real GPS and not some A-GPS where it uses Cellular triangulation plus Wi-Fi triangulation plus some sort of actual GPS assist to those. #10) SMS, I think that is very important. with the ability to shoot a pic or *vid* and send it using SMS or MMS. genius I tell you! and just for giggles there will probably be a copy and paste feature!(not sure but would be nice) not to mention a keyboard that isn't cramped in portrait mode. And the Most important thing of all, two OEM batteries in every package, what does that mean, that's what did it for me, a F---in  removable battery, in case I decide to keep the phone for more than a year, not likely, but still a good thing.
There are a few things they have in common as well #1) Visual Voicemail  #2) 2MP Camera, although  I think the instinct has a flash. #3) Touch Screen, Resistive vs. Capacitive. #4) VOIP Possibilities  #5) Developers excited to make new useful applications.
If the iphone were the second to market with an effective touchscreen device they would not be the ones that are the gold standard, they might be just another instinct trying to make their mark!
If you ask my opinion Instinct wins, judge for yourself!
Can't wait till June 20, 2008!!!

It doesn't have a flash and without wifi there are no voip possibilities especially on Java/Brew

I think developers are a little more exciting about the iPhone SDK than about the Instincts.  I may be wrong, and I know it was just released, but ten bucks says ebay, MIMvistsa, mlb.com, sega, etc. don't develope apps for the Instinct within weeks of the SDK being released...

You put down the touch screen as a plus for the Instinct?  Whatever man.  I was laughing enough when you said you thought the Instinct had a flash - shows how much you actually know about it.  But the iPhone's capacitive touch screen works a whole lot better.  I'm not claiming to have played with an Instinct, but I have with an iPhone, and all the reviewers say the same thing.  That the iPhone's is more responsive and more accurate.  Because capacitive is sensing where the electric field has been disturbed - by you grounding it with your finger.  While resistive actually requires you to have two layers make contact to tell the phone where you've pressed.

The Instinct does not kill it.  Not even close.  I think the Instinct may be a very nice phone, I may even get it in the unlikely chance that you can get it with SERO, but once you start comparing it to the iPhone...that's just a joke.

tcarr20,

I love the comments, I agree developers are much more excited to use the iphone SDK, s*** I watched the complete WWDC 2008 video off apple's website and I loved it. The SDK looks so cool and easy to use, plus the iphone is the gold standard, so why wouldn't they want to use it. But Java/Brew has it's fans as well, and is a very powerful tool for creating custom and needed applications, and correct me if I'm wrong, but there are more Jave based phones out there than the 6+ mill iphones, damn that a lot of one type of phone!

I think some of those developers will create content for the instinct, which ones is yet to be seen, and certainly not in two weeks of development like some of the demos at WWDC 2008 but, still they are coming.

I just said they both have touchscreens I never said that the screen was a plus for the instinct, I don't believe that at all. I love the touchscreen of the iphone, but before there were iphones there were touchscreen windows mobile phones (I had the 8525) and it did what I needed it to do, and when windows mobile 7 comes out and has multi-touch built in,  it won't be as much an issue on future phones.

The argument or comparison speaks for itself, just something for the masses to read when skimming across the vast amounts of information on the internet. 

What I would like to see happen and again just my opinion, is Steve Jobs should put out a phone that is hands down everything you could want in a phone and then some, including Wimax, and at least give the opportunity to the other carries to carry the phone in their lineup, although Wimax is a little tough most as carriers wont have it for a few years, then I will buy the iphone.

I agree with you capacitive touch screen is def the better of the two. I also disagree with the OP's title of instinct kills it. The instinct does not kill the iphone but it is a great phone and i think it is on the same level as the iphone but it def does not kill it and the main reason for that would be the processor speed, the browser, and the screen. Now the only important one of those is the processor speed and if the phone works quickly with the processor it has then that's all that matters.

tcarr20,

I totally agree, the capacitive touchscreen is the best in the technology of touchscreens. Take it one step further to a Transflective touchscreen so in direct sunlight you can still see it and I would buy any phone with that option, as well as all the other advanced features. 

If I'm not mistaken the Samsung Glyde SCH-u940 has a capacitive touchscreen, and is the baby brother to the instinct. So I blame samsung for not using the better of the two technologies.

Next year I will get another phone that will hopefully have everything I personally need!

Believe me, the Iphone even the 3G is no Ferrari.  But I know what are getting at.  Lets be honest, Iphone does multimedia apps better, like the music shuffler, picture viewing... BUT the Instinct does almost everything else better: voice to act, live search, EV DO Rev A websurfing, better GPS, customizable apps/menus, more apps/menus, live tv and radio, better qwerty w/landscape+portrait mode, predictive and corrective text, haptic feedback, one touch web panning, video and voice recording, microSD memory expansion (creating endless memory capability, Iphone3G is at most 16GB), two batteries, and more...  All these things the Iphone 3G is not capable of.  But the Iphone is more popular b/c everyone is in love, and for good reason, with the very effective pinch multitouch feature. 
From 1 to 20, give Iphone a 19 for beauty and design, 17 for usability, a 14 for functionality.  Instinct, a 17, 18, and 20 respectively.

Sorry about the red, that's a little annoying eh.