Samsung shows off Sprint's Instinct S30 (alias Instinct Mini)

No details are being offered just yet, but Samsung's Korean-language press service has slipped the first official shot of its Instinct S30 / Instinct Mini / M810 for Sprint. At first glance, the phone seems to be considerably more put-together than its older brother -- and if they've managed to iron out all of the software issues that plagued the Instinct's early days, Sprint might just have a winner on its hands. We're guessing this is going to be unveiled on a more grandiose scale by Samsung USA and Sprint any day, minute, or second now, so stay tuned.

[(Unverified) Posted Mar 31st 2009 2:04AM]

instinct was a dissasister int terms of applications

[(Unverified) Posted Mar 31st 2009 2:09AM]

Instinct 2

[(Unverified) Posted Mar 31st 2009 4:17AM]

My GF loves her original Instinct.
I don't believe she is interested in the Instinct mini and I've been cramming Palm Pre info in her ear for a solid month now.
I don't think the new Instinct will sell well.

[(Unverified) Posted Mar 31st 2009 7:25AM]

I bet the last (solid) month of your GF's life has been extremely amusing.
Come to think of it, the preceding months must have been great fun too.

[(Unverified) Posted Mar 31st 2009 4:23PM]

A winner......youve got to be kidding! While the first one sold well, it was and still is a P.O.S. And complaints and very real issues go to Sprints deaf ears! This carrier is truly unbeleivable in its theories on retaining customers. For instance Sprint has just confirmed slashing its live tv channels in half, down to 11. This is the second time. The next cut will take all channels away.

[(Unverified) Posted Mar 31st 2009 10:25PM]

Agreed. I still have my Instinct. I basically fell for the BS about the phone. The Pre is going to be the real flagship phone of the Sprint service.

[(Unverified) Posted Apr 2nd 2009 4:03AM]

Actually, the new Sprint TV lineup started today and went from 15 channels to 21!

[(Unverified) Posted Jun 6th 2009 3:37AM]

S30 Weather, Sports, News, and Movies Downgrade
On the S30 Weather, Sports, News and Movies open in a browser window that is not as easily customizable as the pocket express application that was used on the original instinct.

The orginal Instincts pocket express software used GPS to provide customizable weather for your city, movies in your area, and sports for teams close to you without typing in a zip code or city. All that data was only two or three finger touches away. On top of the convenience it had a full HTML browser like the S30, but the S30 has slower connectivity because it's on a lesser network.

On the S30 If you go to movies you're directed to fandango, go to sports you get a crappy web page, go to weather more crap in browser. At least the old Instinct allowed you to filter the crap, and get what you wanted quickly...or view the crap. Those who buy this phone without checking out the original Instinct may not know they are buying a weaker model than the first, they might be satisfied with the browser and navigation. I bought this for my girlfriend in hopes it would be like my original model, and when she saw that it didn't have any pocket express convenience apps she was disappointed. Don't buy it and decide you want to exchange it because Sprint customer service and billing is as painful as the S30 to deal with. The friendly people at the Sprint store didn't even know the S30 was a downgrade until I took mine to them and we compared apps together, they even thought it sucked, because most of them own the original. My experience with the S30 coupled with customer service resulted in me leaving Sprint all together.