Apple’s iPhone will face stiff competition in the battle of the smartphones in the next coming months. Sprint Nextel and Samsung unveiled a touch-screen phone equipped with a 3-inch display, multimedia capabilities and a QWERTY keypad named “The Instinct.”
Available this summer, it represents Sprint’s direction of producing devices which fulfills the needs of the consumers of tomorrow; from a wireless carrier: voice, data and multimedia services. The Instinct carries the same look as Apple’s iPhone, though the latter has a larger screen at 3.5″. Both devices are similar in size and weight. The Instinct has GPS-enabled audio and visual turn-by-turn driving instructions, giving users real time driving directions.
For entertainment, it can access Sprint’s video-programming network, which includes sports, news and TV shows, and the Sprint Music Store, which sells tunes for 99 cents each.
The Instinct, which is exclusive to Sprint, runs on the carrier’s high-speed CDMA EV-DO Rev A network for text messaging, e-mail, and connecting to the Web. The smartphone has a 2-megapixel camera for still pictures and video recording and comes with a 2-GB MicroSD memory card that’s upgradeable to 8 GB. The device supports the Bluetooth wireless standard for connecting to peripheral devices but does not support Wi-Fi for connecting to the Web. The iPhone, on the other hand, supports Wi-Fi.
Whether the Sprint will manage to dethrone the iPhone with it’s no frills concept remains to be seen.
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