A Phone With TV, Radio, Music, G.P.S. and Camcorder

[Dashken]

The Apple iPhone may have raised the ante for smartphone design last year, but the competition is not just sitting around. Although it has a similar slablike form and touch screen function, the new Samsung Instinct has a few special features of its own, as well as a monogamous marriage with Sprint as its wireless carrier.

If you don’t actually have any calls to make, the phone offers plenty of multimedia options to pass the time, like e-mail, Sprint TV for live and on-demand video, the Sprint Music Store for wireless song downloads and Sprint Radio with 150 streaming channels. The Instinct has a G.P.S. function that gives you directions on screen or by voice, as well as a built-in camcorder and 2-megapixel camera with a 2x zoom.

Pricing is not yet final, but the phone will be available in June; details are available at Sprint | now is good.

As for high-speed surfing, the Instinct can use Sprint’s EV-DO mobile broadband network for zippier download speeds than the iPhone can muster on AT&T’s Edge network.

Source: http://www.nytimes.com/2008/04/03/te...f=personaltech

[Chai]

Hmm...Most PDAs are already capable of doing that, especially if the radio is not FM radio.