This Dandy Gadget: Not only the Sanyo SCP-2700 that will land to Sprint operator, Samsung Instinct S30 is also will be available soon at Sprint Operator. This full touch screen phone upgrades your Web-browsing experience through both the default browser and Opera Mini 4.2, raises the bar with built in instant messaging, and you can play your favorit games, “Guitar Hero World Tour” as well as “Are You Smarter Than a 5th Grader” preloaded.
In addition, you can get all Sprint applications, advance stereo Bluetooth 2.0, and 2.0 megapixel camera with camcorder. And powered by Telenav, The Sprint Instinct S30 offers you GPS-enabled audio and visual turn-by-turn driving direction, one-click traffic rerouting and more than 10 million local listings.
Samsung Instinct S30 smartphone will be available in two colors: cobalt metal and touch of copper at April 19 for $129.99 at launch with a two-year agreement, $70 instant savings and $100 mail-in rebate. If you want this phone, it is already available for pre-registration. [Dandy Gadget Source]
S30 Weather, Sports, News, and Movies Downgrade
On the S30 Weather, Sports, News and Movies open in a browser window that is not as easily customizable as the pocket express application that was used on the original instinct.
The orginal Instincts pocket express software used GPS to provide customizable weather for your city, movies in your area, and sports for teams close to you without typing in a zip code or city. All that data was only two or three finger touches away. On top of the convenience it had a full HTML browser like the S30, but the S30 has slower connectivity because it’s on a lesser network.
On the S30 If you go to movies you’re directed to fandango, go to sports you get a crappy web page, go to weather more crap in browser. At least the old Instinct allowed you to filter the crap, and get what you wanted quickly…or view the crap. Those who buy this phone without checking out the original Instinct may not know they are buying a weaker model than the first, they might be satisfied with the browser and navigation. I bought this for my girlfriend in hopes it would be like my original model, and when she saw that it didn’t have any pocket express convenience apps she was disappointed. Don’t buy it and decide you want to exchange it because Sprint customer service and billing is as painful as the S30 to deal with. The friendly people at the Sprint store didn’t even know the S30 was a downgrade until I took mine to them and we compared apps together, they even thought it sucked, because most of them own the original. My experience with the S30 coupled with customer service resulted in me leaving Sprint all together.