Word on the street is that Canadian CDMA carrier, Bell Mobility, will be picking up the infamous iPhone-killing SPH-800 Samsung Instinct this August. According to MobileinCanada, the Instinct will be released on August 8th for as little as $149.95 on a three year contract, $249.95 on a two year contract and $399.95 on a one year contract. If contracts are not your style you can also pickup the Samsung Instinct contract free for $449.95 which is identical to the Sprint retail price.
It looks like the North American CDMA carriers might be forming an allegiance to the Instinct to combat sales of Apple’s iPhone 3G rather than releasing dozens of different devices that fit the ‘almost, but no quite’ category of touchscreen handsets. With a full touchscreen that comes with a stylus, 2.0 megapixel camera, live tv and radio, the EVDO Rev A powered Samsung Instinct should fare well with our Canadian brothers.
Bell Mobility Samsung Instinct SPH-800 Specifications:
- The first EVDO Rev A consumer device: 3.1 Mbps downlink (average speeds between 600 kbps and 1.4 Mbps), 1.8Mbps uplink (average speeds between 350 kbps and 500 kbps)
- 2.17 x 4.57 x 0.49 inches and 4.5 ounces
- Virtual full QWERTY keyboard with haptic feedback
- 3 dedicated keys on the lower portion of the phone: phone, back and home keys
- 4 Menus: favorites (fully customized one touch access to things you do most), main (messaging, voicemail, gps), fun (music, tv, photos, games) and web (full HTML web browsing)
- Full multi-tasking: listen to music in background mode while surfing the Internet, texting or playing games
- 2.0 megapixel camera with video recording
- microSD slot supports up to 8GB
- Bluetooth 2.0
- SMS voice and text messaging with threaded text
- Phone as Modem support
- picture caller ID
- 5.75 hours talk time with 1000 mAmp standard battery
- What’s in the box: 2GB microSD card, two standard 1000 mAmp batteries, charging sleeve, travel charger, usb cable, 3.5 mm headphones with built in microphone, leather case, and stylus
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