Samsung Instinct s30 Phone, Bronze (Sprint)

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Samsung Instinct s30 Phone, Bronze (Sprint)

Customer Rating: Rating 3.5 out of 5

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List Price: ~~$449.99~~

* as of Thursday September 9, 2010 05:18:49, America/Chicago

Product information Brand: Samsung
Publisher: Samsung
Category: Wireless
Release Date: September 1, 2008
Model: Instinct s30

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Features

Improved touchscreen smartphone with built-in instant messaging, improved Web-browsing, and easy access to both personal and corporate email
Sprint Mobile Broadband Network via EV-DO connectivity; Sprint TV and Sprint Music Store enabled; GPS turn-by-turn directions via Sprint Navigation
Visual Voicemail; 2-megapixel camera/camcorder; Bluetooth stereo music; MicroSD expansion (to 16 GB); digital audio/video player
Up to 4.6 hours of talk time
What's in the Box: handset, battery, charger, MicroSD card adapter, wired stereo headset, USB cable, printed documentation

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Editorial Review

Amazon.com Product Description: The sleek successor to the iconic Samsung Instinct touchscreen phone, the Samsung Instinct s30 raises the bar with built-in instant messaging, an improved Web-browsing experience through both the default browser and Opera Mini 4.2 and pre-loaded demo games including Guitar Hero World Tour. It also offers a thinner streamlined design for a smoother feel in your hands along with a 3.2-inch touchscreen with haptic feedback. You'll enjoy the blazingly fast speeds of Sprint's EV-DO Rev. A Mobile Broadband Network as well as GPS navigation capabilities for accessing the optional Sprint Navigation turn-by-turn direction service and access to Sprint TV's video-on-demand with full-motion video and vivid sound.

The Samsung Instinct s30 offers a built-in instant messaging, an improved Web-browsing experience and popular game demos.

Other features include a 2-megapixel camera/camcorder, Bluetooth for hands-free communication and stereo music streaming, microSD memory expansion up to 16 GB, voice dialing capabilities, and up to 4.6 hours of talk time.

Sprint Service
Supporting the EV-DO high-speed data standard, this phone enables you to download and stream high-quality video, straight onto your phone. Where coverage is available, EV-DO connectivity provides average download speeds ranging from 400 to 700 Kbps, with peak rates up to 2 Mbps. With Sprint TV, you can make your cell phone your always-on source for news, weather, sports and more. This comprehensive video service combines high-quality streaming audio and video from channels including ABC, The Weather Channel, Fox Sports, E!, CNN, The Discovery Channel, and more.

The Sprint Music Store enables you to buy, download, and then jam out wherever you are with new songs or old favorites. Offering a growing selection of more than 1.6 million songs, the store provides you two copies of each song--one for the phone and another for the PC, as well as the ability to burn songs to a CD using Windows Media Player. Save your songs to a memory card with a capacity that's right for you. You also get several streaming-radio applications, including Sprint Radio with more than 150 channels.

This GPS-enabled phone provides optional access to Sprint Navigation for driving directions on your mobile phone--by voice and onscreen. Along the way, turn-by-turn directions will be announced in a clear voice and displayed on your phone. For example, Sprint Navigation will say, "Go 1.2 miles and turn right on Elm Street." As you approach the turn, you will hear, "Turn right on Elm Street." Sprint Navigation also provides proactive traffic alerts with one click re-routing. And it's easy to find restaurants, banks, cafes, hotels and more from over 10 million points of interest across the U.S.

With Sprint Mobile e-mail, you'll get easy access to your favorite home e-mail services including AOL, Yahoo!, Gmail, and MSN/Windows Live Hotmail and more. And Sprint Mobile e-mail Work enables you to access e-mail from corporate servers, including Microsoft Exchange 2000, 2003, 2007 and Lotus Notes Domino versions 6.0, 6.5 and 7.0 (with the latest software update).

This phone also provides access to Sprint Football Live--free for any phone with a data plan. You'll be able to follow all the live play-by-play action with the Live Game Center for both pro and college football games, as well as stay on top of the pro football draft with a Live Draft Tracker and in-depth analysis and bios on nearly 500 top prospects. Access by texting "FOOTBALL" to 7777 on the handset to download Sprint Football Live from Sprint Digital Lounge (standard text messaging and data rates apply).

The handset also features a 2-megapixel camera/camcorder, Bluetooth stereo music streaming, microSD memory expansion (to 16 GB), and Visual Voice-mail.

Phone Features
Ideal for those looking to simplify and increase the productivity of their business and personal lives, the Samsung Instinct s30 brings your most-used applications and contacts within a single finger tap. With the Instinct, you don't have to listen to voice-mail anymore. Just one quick glance at the Visual Voice-mail display and you'll know who called and when--and even delete messages without having to listen to them first. It has a high-tech look with large, vibrant 3.2-inch touchscreen a 240 x 432-pixel resolution and support for 262K colors for excellent depth. And the Instinct s30 responds to every touch with a slight vibration. This localized tactile feedback, called haptics, transforms the virtual QWERTY keypad and other screen interactions into a sensory experience.

The Instinct s30 offers a Speech to Action button, which provides many functions using voice activation including call, text, picture messaging, traffic, movie, sports, news and search. Speech to Action brings seamless integration with Sprint Navigation, powered by Telenav, with GPS-enabled audio and visual turn-by-turn driving directions, one-click traffic rerouting and more than 10 million local listings.

Tips and Tricks

Sharing GPS Directions
It's simple to share driving directions. Just touch Main > Navigation > Drive to > Recent Places, then select a previous destination and pick any recipient with a mobile phone number. Touch Share and send it to an e-mail or a mobile phone.
Find Movies Near You
To find out what's playing in your area, touch Web > Movies. See an updated list of what's showing by title or find out what's playing near you.

This sleek, stylish device offers three dedicated keys on the lower portion of the device to make operation of the device very straightforward and easy to navigate--phone, back and home. The phone key always takes you back to essential voice calling and features including speed dial, visual voice-mail, contacts and the dial pad. The back key is a consistent way to take a step back in the operation.

hands-free communication is easy thanks to the integrated speakerphone. This phone also provides Bluetooth wireless connectivity (version 2.0), and includes profiles for communication headset, hands-free car kits, and file transfer. With the A2DP Bluetooth profile, you can stream your music to a pair of compatible Bluetooth stereo headphones. You can connect your laptop (either via Bluetooth or wired USB) and enjoy dial-up networking--surf the Internet, send e-mail, and access files from a server (additional charges or subscription applicable).

The 2-megapixel camera can capture images up to 1600 x 1200 pixels for prints up to 8 x 10 inches. It features a 2x digital zoom, "fuzzy picture" warning that lets you know if you're about to take a bad picture, and easy viewing of photos by simply swiping your finger across the screen to move from one photo to the next. It also includes a video camcorder function that lets you record video clips up to 2 MB (approximately 6 minutes) for sending via messaging or for as long as you have space on an inserted microSD memory card for saving.

The music player is compatible with MP3, WMA, and AAC/AAC+ digital audio formats, and it will play in the background even while sending text messages, browsing the Web, or playing a downloaded game. This phone is also compatible with 72-chord polyphonic ringtones, and it includes a vibrate silent mode.

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Other features include:

Live Search for Sprint, powered by Microsoft, provides easy access to directory information on-the-go, GPS-enabled directions, interactive maps and one-touch click to call access
Visual Voice-mail allows you to listen to messages in their order of preference and manage them with a simple tap of the screen
True HTML Web experience from both the enhanced embedded browser and the addition of Opera Mini 4.2 with a desktop-like browsing experience
Store up to 600 contact entries, each with fields for five phone numbers, an e-mail address, a web site, and notes
Messaging services: SMS text, MMS multimedia, instant messaging, e-mail
Personal Organizer: Calculator, Calendar (sync with Outlook or personal), Alarm Clock, World Clock, Stopwatch and Notepad
microSD memory expansion (up to 16 GB)
Speed dialer can store up to 99 numbers
Bluetooth version 2.0 with the following profiles: A2DP (stereo music streaming), AVRC (remote control), HFP (hands-free car kits), HSP (communication headsets), DUN (dial-up networking), FTP (file transfer), OPP (object push for business cards, calendar items, and pictures), PBA (transfer contacts)

Vital Statistics
The Samsung Instinct s30 weighs 3.88 ounces and measures 2.17 x 4.57 x 0.48 inches. Its 1000 mAh lithium-ion battery is rated at up to 4.6 hours of talk time. It runs on the 800/1900 CDMA/EV-DO frequencies.

Customer Reviews

A truly great phone

by J. Syfers 2009-06-23, 3 people found this review helpful

I agree, this phone rocks! I have owned cell phones since they first showed up on the consumer market and I can say with all honesty that this is one of the best if not the best I have ever owned. I will say right off that it's web interface is terrible but still usable, and it's camera, still and video has no user control or editing abilities but still manages to take good pictures and movies.
Everything else this phone is designed to do it does very well and has many unique and useful applications. As for the "speed" of this phone, even indoors with a week signal it connects calls, accesses and loads my email or completes a GPS location in just a few seconds. considering the fact that I had to install a repeater to enable me to use the cell phone that this Samsung replaced I am very impressed with this phone. As I am writing this I accessed the Internet with my signal going back and forth from one to no bars and my home page still loaded in about 4 seconds. Thats pretty impressive when neither of my last two phones could load this same page in less than 15 seconds with my repeater turned on and showing no less than 3/4 full strength.
I won't go into every thing this phone does or all the really cool and useful apps it has as the amazon page description covers all that. I will only say two things, first if you buy this phone I guarantee you will not be disappointed, And second someone who would give this phone a one star rating obviously has ulterior motives. 15+ years designing and manufacturing handsets, don't make me laugh. So even with a bad Web interface and no camera controls this phone still rates five stars. Oh and by the way I work with the owner of one of the first ISP companies in existence, and i can tell you he is a i phone freak and after playing with my s30 for about 20 minutes he was truly jealous.

Coolest phone ever

by Matthew R. Davis 2009-05-17, 7 people found this review helpful

This phone rules. Sprint actually did something right with their plan so that you get a ton of services without paying extra.
GPS, email, messaging, internet, live search, TV on demand, Live TV, etc.

This phone simply rules. And thanks to samsung you don't have to buy that crummy iphone to get a nice setup like this.

Live search might be the coolest thing yet. Hold down a button and say the name, it finds the address, phone number, and GPS maps directions to it. Right on your phone. Amazing.

The signal is super strong. I actually get a GPS signal inside work, which with it's thick ceilings renders most phones incapable of even getting a roam signal.

I generally hate talking on a phone, but I love this phone.

Buy it, you couldn't possibly be disappointed.

Samsung Instinct s30 = Flaming Dumpster Fire

by Timothy P. English 2010-02-21, 2 people found this review helpful

Once a year I call Sprint and threaten to change service providers if they don't meet some set of outrageous demands of mine. Desperate to cling to their position as the number three mobile phone service provider, they generally concede some combination of a discounted bill and free gear. This little game of cat-and-mouse has been going on for about six years and I'm generally pretty happy with Sprint's willingness to cooperate.

This year, my major gripe was (and still is), that I want a freakin' iPhone just like everybody else - why... because it's awesome and everyone knows that. After demanding to be switched immediately to cancellations and a few minutes of impassioned whining, Sprint gave me a discount on my monthly plan and offered me two Samsung s30 "smart" phones, which they touted as a direct substitute for the iPhone, capable of performing every task that the Apple product does and more! I graciously accepted and congratulated myself for once again putting the screws to my service provider; well, this time the joke was on me. Congratulations Sprint... you win this time.

For starters, comparing an iPhone to this piece of trash is equivalent to comparing an ice cold beer to old boot filled with warm toilet water. Just turning the phone on is a virtual clinic in poor product design, as you have to hold down the power button to unlock the screen. Besides being inconvenient, this is just plain stupid since if you hold it down to long it turns the phone off.

As a music player, the s30 is unusable. All files must be dragged into a folder on the micro-SD card, and at least half of them will not be recognized by the phone's music player. There is no interface that you can use on the computer that allows you to organize or make playlists, and the phone's music player interface is horrendous.

As a browser, it is slow and unreliable, and any attempt to select an object on the screen using the touch screen inevitably ends with you repeatedly smashing your finger into the screen in frustration until it randomly decides to actually function. A portion of the screen is occupied by controls that could have easily been incorporated into the phone's buttons to preserve precious screen space.

The NFL live function is great, as long as you remember to touch the screen every 7 seconds, because if you allow it to go into energy save mode the audio feed stops. Sprint radio has an unreliable feed and no fast forward / rewind function, so when it crashes, which it inevitably will do every several minutes, you have to start listening to the program over again from the beginning. Aside from that, the audio on Sprint radio is inexplicably too low, even if the audio setting is just fine for the phone and music player. Sprint TV is just a straight waste of everyone's time.

Neither the music, radio or TV function transmit to a Bluetooth headset; so if you want to use them while walking around you'll need to carry around headphones or rely on the phone's speaker.

The games are idiotic and you have to buy them after about 1 minute of free trial play. There are no apps. The e-mail works okay, that is, until it stops working... which it does every 3-4 weeks at which time I have to delete the account and reload it. Finally, the phone's operating system completely freezes about once per day so that the only option is to remove and replace the battery.

The GPS is actually pretty good.

In summary, this phone is good for phone calls, texts and GPS. It is only marginally more useful than antique flip phone that it replaced. Whenever I see a friend enjoying the features, apps, and graceful user-interface of their iPhone, I am instantly filled with a surge of jealousy so intense and tangible that it seems to fill the air around me and I can't breathe.

Whats so Instinctive about this thing?

by Ghenghis 2009-06-06, 3 people found this review helpful

The Samsung Instinct II, I dont even know how they call it that cause there is nothing instinctive about this phone at all. Its almost impossible to navigate, pages load slowly, the thing seems to always be dialing somebody whether I want it to or not, and it freezes constantly. The web browser is very difficult to manage, and messaging....well, good luck and just pray you dont accidentally switch from a qwerty keypad to an ABC format. The software is terrible and every command takes a minimum of 3 button pushes to complete. Its terrible. "End call/Are you sure/Confirm command/Done" Ridiculous.

As an aside, this phone's Bluetooth also isn't compatible with my Garmin GPS handsfree phone interface so that's another peeve.

All this I discovered after replacing a charger, then two suspect batteries but the whole ordeal ends today with a trip to a rival carrier that has 3G service in my own personal Dead Zone. BTW, level of experience: 15+ years as a designer and manufacturer of handsets, this is the worst implementation I have ever seen.

Ha! Now I see Samsung is basically giving these things away...wonder why? Dont fall for the hype or the styling, this phone is far inferior to the phone it was designed to dupe.

LOVE IT

by Dark Knight 2009-04-21, 4 people found this review helpful

I got this phone the day it came out and have been in love ever since!! I had the original instinct and upgraded to this one, the two are very much the same, the new one is just totally sleeker, slimmer, and waaaayy faster!! I'd recommend this to anyone!!

SPRINT & SAMSUNG MISSED BIG TIME

by Doyle Poe 2010-04-28, 0 people found this review helpful

My Wife and I bought Instinct 30's. Mistake all the way. The concept is great, services are great, the Isttrument is really weak. Lots of locking up, dropping out on calls, function keys are at time plain useless.
If Sprint will do the right thing and offer Instinct 30 owners a good discount on a NEW PHONE (preferrably a smart phone we would be overjoyed.

Very Nice Features..

by Gray 4 Wisdom 2009-07-27, 3 people found this review helpful

THIS IS NOT A SMARTPHONE! However, it offers more than other feature phones. It's in the gray area so to speak. If you have the original, your next phone should be a smartphone.

Pros - excellent features that are easy to use. Great touchscreen response. Very fast performance going from screen to screen. Able to download programs like stocks, file manager, ms pacman, voice recorder, checkbook register, finance calculator etc from [...]. Live search and gps are awesome. At the end of day, it has above average call clarity and volume. This is simply an easy, fun phone to use with a nice size screen.

Cons - TV pixelation is horrible or so I thought. Other Sprint phones have these same issues, but it looks worst on the S30 b/c the screen is larger. The slim battery does not last a day (for me anyway). When making calls, the backlight does not shut off! It can make your face hot after five minutes, not to mention drain more battery life. Screen resolution needs to be upgraded to take better advantage of the screen size.

Purchased the extended battery with new battery cover. Can talk about 7 hours easily. Also, have Samsung stylus that attaches to the phone near the headphone jack. Works great. It can also handle a 32gb microsd card (double the 16gb that is listed).

This is the best feature phone Sprint offers.

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