Samsung Instinct HD SPH-M850 Cell Phone
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Samsung Instinct HD SPH-M850 : A feature-packed, reasonably good performer with impressive design that falls a little short of a full blown smartphone at a lesser price.
Sum n Substance:
Thumbs Up: Impressive design and user interface with a too good display. Mindblowing features of which a HD camera that gives sharp snaps and videos is the most attractive. Another feature worth noting is Wi-Fi.
Thumbs Down: Occasionlly slow and call quality not sharp, Opera 9.7 browser adjustment time-taking, memory card difficult to operate owing to location in the rear of the battery cover, too high pricing.
Inside The Trunk:
Technology – CDMA
Band – CDMA 800/1900( Dual Band)
Phone Design – Candy Bar
Caller ID – Yes
Wireless Interface- Bluetooth
Extra Features- Touch Screen technology, Voice Recognition and Global Positioning System
The Whiz Kid Speaks: Remember the CTIA event last year when Samsung’s Instinct was the center of attraction? Well, you might have expected its successor Instinct S30 to be as impressive, but might’ve been tad disappointed. First the design was slimmer and a lot of features found in the former were missing. But do you expect a technological giant like Samsung to displease you for long? Samsung came up with the Instinct HD SPH –M850 which comes with upgraded and improvised features. To start with the design is chic and the display really bright. Essentially a multimedia phone that you cannot resist the temptation of owning, it is an impressive performer in many aspects.
If you compare the price of $ 249 under the Sprint Everything plan and $100 mail-in discount, this phone costs you more than HTC Hero of Google Android- a smartphone you’ll to vouch for, for its excellent quality. The pricing is mostly because of the multimedia of the Instinct HD. Well, I can buy a separate camera with better features. If it’s the phone that I basically need, then I prefer to not get baited by the multimedia and go for a phone that costs much less.
Razzle Dazzle: The phone is bigger than both the earlier versions of Instinct, but you can carry it in your bag or pocket. The larger dimensions make it just the right size to hold in your hand- it’s neither too small to slip off nor too big to not fit in your palm. The shape looks good and the classy silver and black body is impressive.
The 3.2 inch display with resolution of 480×320 pixels displays your pictures as a blend of 16 million hues. The pictures are bright and vibrant. The touch screen is small but kind on the eye. The brightness and backlight time are adjustable but text size cannot be altered. Touch interface was fast when selecting items, but slow when operating scroll bars and long lists. Adjustable touch sensitivity with feedback and proximity sensor for display is an advantageous feature. Personalization of menu features is one of the preferred features of the Instinct HD which has menu interface similar to the earlier versions. At the highest level the menu is categorized into Main, Fun and My Stuff. Microsoft Live Search and social networking with facebook are enabled via these menus. Alphanumeric touch activation, speakerphone and contacts access are other features that you can see.
A big spacious QWERTY keyboard is present. But you’ve got to keep toggling between different keyboards for numbers and symbols. Also the keyboard is not arranged exactly in the QWERTY mode. You can also hide the keyboard to expose more writing surface. The top location of the power control makes it convenient to operate. Most controls other than the memory card slot are located conveniently.
Inside Dope: The Instinct HD comes with a smaller contact phone book. It has all the essential elements of a phone book, the calendar and world clock being easier to handle. This phone comes with a lot of smartphone features like Bluetooth Functionality, Sprint Navigation, gesture manipulation of controls and Wi Fi.
Working with Internet is quite interesting on Instinct HD. It comes with a lot of email options. It allows you to sync with a number of POP3 accounts. Oprah 9.7 gives a rich browsing experience; but redundant features make it cluttered. Opening multiple windows simultaneously is good, but toggling between pages is inconvenient. No browser panning is found as in the original.
The HD 5 mega pixel camera is truly remarkable. Apart from normal functionalities high definition video recording is also possible with this. The picture is sharp and bright. Not comparable to a HD camcorder, which is an unasked for comparison, the Instinct HD does not have very good editing options. The HD video occupies a lot of memory and you’ll need a microSD card to accommodate that. Self timer and recording video resolutions are other features. Adjustable brightness, contrast, sharpness are other features of the phone.
Samsung instinct review
Other multimedia features include connecting to Television channels, MP3 player and accesses to online music stores, social networking, and phone beautification applications like screensavers and wallpapers. Personalized ring tones are an added advantage.
The call quality assessment noted the following features. Good call quality, good volume and strong signal with a bit of noise interference at times. There was a nagging background disturbance and the voices sounded a bit rough. The recipients also encountered background noise while talking to us but they found the audio quality pretty satisfactory. Speakerphone audio was just up to the mark but not remarkable. The same was with Bluetooth headsets. Original EV-DO and good audio streaming quality were observed. Media files could be downloaded fast and without interruption.
The phone is slow on multimedia operations and it hung at times. The phone has a battery life of 5.8 hours with a digital SAR of 1.16 watts.
Nitty Gritty: This instinct HD is on the whole a phone with good multimedia features but the phone quality is just average. I think if your priority is for a talking device and not a multimedia box, you can go for a cheaper and better phone which is essentially meant for conversations.
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i like samsung, don't like sprint.
still haven't found anything to replace my treo 700p.