Samsung is a a well known and highly respected company in the electronics industry as a whole. They make high quality HDTV’s, phones, and even digital cameras. They are well known in the mobile space for their extremely stylish and functional cellular phones. They make an extremely wide variety of phones, but their most interesting phone currently is the Samsung Instinct, their competitor to the iPhone.
Samsung also makes a nice variety of advanced texting phones with QWERTY keyboards built in. Clearly this is a company that gets that typing texts using a numeric pad is like torture. It takes forever and it just not intuitive, no matter how you try and slice it. Read more…
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Samsung has released another firmware update for the popular Instinct, and it seems to be a good one. According to Gizmodo, the update includes some major enhancements to the browser. The browser seems to to be the achilles heel of most phones (just ask my wife about her BlackJack), so it’s nice to see them working hard to make this one better.
They claim a 10x improvment in rendering speed, which must be a stunning improvement for people that are used to the old one.
In addition, you can now hide the browser controls (to give you more screen real estate), the favorites UI has been improved, and there have been 34 other browser-related tickets closed. Not bad!
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The Windows Mobile 6.1 update is now available for the Samsung BlackJack II, and it offers a ton of new features. Â Among them are a new version of Pocket Internet Explorer, a modified UI, a ton of bug fixes and a few extra enhancements.
To update yours, head on over to this page on Samsung’s site and go from there.
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The very popular Samsung Instinct has just received a firmware update. To update your phone, go to:
[Menu] –> [Settings] –> [General] and choose “Update phone”.
The update has a few nice tweaks:
- Increased audio volume when using Bluetooth.
- More stable signal and battery bars.
- Allows you to set a saved image as your wallpaper.
- Allows recurring events in the calendar.
- Various improvements to the web browser.
They also announced that a more signficant update was coming later in the year, but they haven’t revealed what that might include.
If you have an Instinct, what do you think of this update? Worth getting?
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According to PHONE Magazine, the very iPhone-ish Samsung Instinct is set to launch on June 20.
It looks to be a solid phone — fast EV-DO Rev. A connection, true GPS and lots of touch-screen goodness. No word yet on pricing.
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It was rumored to come out on May 9th, but it’s official today.
It’s a good looking phone. I love the form factor, and it’s got a nice, large touchscreen. In addition, it features:
- EV-DO
- GPS
- 2 megapixel camera
- MicroSD
- Full web browser
All in all, it looks to be a pretty slick phone, though it’s certainly going to suffer with Verizon’s horrible UI. Anyone pick one up yet?
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(via Into Mobile) It’s taken a long time, but Windows Mobile 6.0 will finally be available for the Samsung BlackJack, starting this evening at 5PM EST.
Head over to the Samsung update website later today and give your aging BlackJack a fresh lease on life.
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