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The latest attempt at an iPhone killer is the Samsung Instinct. It's a CDMA smartphone with EVDO Rev. A network speeds, meaning that it's even faster than the oh-so-popular 3G network, which it also supports. It comes with almost all of the typical features you've grown to expect from a smartphone, not least of which is web browsing and email capabilities. Some of the savvier and more useful calling features include audible Caller ID and voice dialing and other commands.

What makes the Samsung Instinct so appealing, like the aforementioned Apple benchmark-setter and its coattail jumpers like the HTC Touch, is its look and feel. The long and narrow Instinct casing has got a large, 240 x 432 pixel, 3.1" touch screen display screen dominating most of the device's face with but 3 buttons beneath it:

• A menu button
• A "back" button
• A phone button

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The Instinct has "haptics" (aka tactile feedback) which is a favorite feature of ours that lets you know that the device has registered every key you press. This is an especially beneficial feature when you consider that nearly all the keys you'd be pressing, including and especially the virtual QWERTY keyboard, are on the touch screen. The Instinct's menu is enjoyably icon-based with large, easy to read and easy to navigate buttons for controlling all of the device's features and applications.

A smartphone as consumer-friendly as it is for businesses, the Instinct lets you view streaming television programs with Sprint TV and listen to commercial-free streaming radio with Sprint Radio - a capability that will undoubtedly appeal to a broad swath of the techno-populace. It gives users access to wireless downloads from the Sprint Music Store and boasts a digital player with album art displayed. Even better, the Sprint Instinct is capable of doubling as a wireless modem for getting on the internet using a desktop or laptop PC.

The Samsung Instinct's web browser is rather advanced, as smartphone web browser's go, with the  abilities to view pages in both Landscape and Portrait views and to reformat and scale down web pages for easier viewing on the smaller smartphone screen. It also has a novel scrolling feature that makes reading web pages conveniently easier than ever before.

The GPS on the device not only shows you your current location, but it is able to give you directions from that position to any point on the planet. The built-in digital camera is only 2.0 megapixels (not bad, but not great), though it includes a camcorder for video recording. Rounding out the Instinct's features are a MicroSD card slot with support for SDHC and stereo Bluetooth 2.0.

The Sprint Instinct comes in a black casing and is 4.57" x 2.17" x 0.49", weighing in at a feathery 4.4 oz. It was made available to the public on June 20 at a price of $130 after a $100 mail-in rebate and committing to a 2-year contract.