Samsung - Instinct Cell Phone Review

This phone has come in quite handy. I can text someone, photograph them and video them. I have set up four personal email addresses from which I can retrieve and send, and there is room to add more. I can open applications such as Word and Excel, and even view image files that are attached to an email. I can view breaking news from CNN.com and surf the Internet, going from one site to another.

There is a TV subscription that is optional and incurs charges that are additional to your telephone package. The radio stations that are available are free, however. You can use the phone like your MP3 and download libraries of tunes. You could name the library, by the artist (e.g., Billy Joel, Elton John, etc.) or by the particular music genre (e.g., Jazz, Classical, etc.). There is also an alarm on the clock, and a calendar to set appointments, which also has an alarm that can be set to alert you so you don't miss dates and times.

The camera takes great photos that you could also send via email from the phone. You could also store the photos, leaving them in the camera. As with a  PC, you could use one of the photos as the background for the telephone. You could also upload photos of your email contacts and place those photos so that when a person calls whose name is stored in your telephone, their picture would display.

For your contacts, you could store several telephone numbers in named fields, such as mobile phone, home phone, work phone, fax, etc. There are specific address, city, state, and zip code fields to store that information.

There is a volume setting and a speakerphone. There are several tones for ringing; there is also a beep and a vibrate. You could set specific ringers for callers, such as a different ringer for your husband, another for your child(ren), and still another for your parent(s). You can lock messages so that they are not accidentally deleted from the phone.

It's a great smartphone that rivals the Blackberry, except there is no server to go down, so you don't experience the outages that Blackberry users have suffered.