Sprint, Samsung Work on Instinct iPhone Clone

JUST IN TIME for the Apple iPhone’s fi rst anniversary, Sprint
and Samsung plan to deliver the most serious competing product
yet: the Instinct. A bit taller, narrower, and thicker than
the iPhone, with a resistive touch screen (versus the iPhone’s
more-sensitive, capacitive display), the Instinct has some features
that the iPhone doesn’t—mobile broadband (EvDO Rev.
A), GPS, a platform for third-party apps (BREW on Java), and
(likely) a more wallet-friendly price tag.
THREE TOUCH-ENABLED BUTTONS with haptic (vibration) feedback anchor the
navigation system: Back returns you to the previous screen; Phone opens the dialpad
and other phone functions; and Home presents four main application groups.
The groups are Favorites, which you defi ne; Main (shown at left) for e-mail, GPS
navigation, messaging, and other general data apps; Fun (shown below) for music,
video, games, a camera, and other leisure activities; and Web, for launching the
landscape-mode browser (shown above). The Instinct supports fi ngertip scrolling,
visual voice mail, and Bluetooth for both stereo headset and phone-as-modem use.

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