[Posted Jul 11th 2008 8:49PM]

Ummm Yeah This Thing Is Truly a POS!

I cannot get the thing to keep service, I upgraded from a Palm Centro and never had service problems. The Instinct is constantly fluctuating in signal strength and goes from 7 bars to no bars to 3 bars to roaming all within seconds no matter where you are. Sprint "Tier 2 Support" advised me to return the thing and get another at which point the rep at the store says his does the same thing and these people told me not to worry about it because I get free roaming. But none the less this still effects service just today I got some crazy message about America Roaming Network while trying to place a call telling me to use a credit card.

Landscape Keyboard is just as ridiculous who is going to use a keyboard that goes a b c d e f g, it would have been just as easy to setup that screen with a QWERTY.

Finally Web browser is obivously garbage everyone knows that and there are absolutely no apps for this phone which renders it just as useless as any other sprint phone.

I figure just put the damn thing on ebay even at 350 i still have enough to cover the sprint etf and also not lose any money on the phone.

[Idea (Unverified) Posted Sep 1st 2008 9:00PM]

I had many of the issues you guys were having with my instinct going from full strength to no strength to roaming and in and out of power vision and normal vision as well. This all ended with one simple call to a Sprint representative who said that my phone did not have the needed PRL update. PRL stands for Preferred Roaming List. The tech said he would set it up for me and that in 10 minutes I should call *2 and tell the computerized voice promt "PRL Update." It made me stay on the line for a minute while it programmed my phone and viola! I now have consistant strong signal and a great connection to the power vision network. Not sure if this will work for everyone, but it is worth calling and asking. I now actually enjoy using my Instinct for web browsing and data services. It seems to be more responsive since it is not always searching for a signal and the power vision speeds are great. Hope this helps some. Thanks.