Review: Samsung Instinct
Sprint worked with Samsung to develop a brand new menu system for the Instinct. It resembles Sprint's regular menus only slightly, but it speaks "Sprint" loud and clear.
The Instinct's home screen, for example, is Sprint's list of favorite shortcuts. This is fully customizable. You can add and rearrange the shortcuts on the home screen at will. This includes applications, actions, web bookmarks, etc. There doesn't appear to be a limit for adding in favorites, but once you fill up the screen, there's not much point to adding more, because then it might be just as fast to access the application you want through the standard menu system. Speaking of which...
Along the bottom of the Instinct's screen are four buttons: favorites, main menu, fun and web. The favorites button duplicates the action of the home button, and takes you to the list of favorites you have.
The main menu is a standard grid of nine folders/applications that pop up when you hit the button. This menu doesn't appear to be customizable in any way. It lets you access the Instinct's settings, tools and applications.
The Fun menu is where you find all your content applications, such as the music player, camera, gaming and access to Sprint's application store. This menu can be customized a bit, as items can be added or deleted as you download applications such as Mobile MySpace.
The Web button takes you to another grid of icons that allow you to launch the browser, get sports scores, the weather report, etc. You can also add bookmarks to this menu if you so choose, as well as other Sprint content.
In all, the menu system is pretty intuitive. It won't take long to figure out and get used to.
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