The Samsung SPH-M810 Instinct S30, also sometimes referred to as the Instinct Mini, includes most all of the Samsung Instinct’s features, but comes packaged in a far nicer design. The physical design of the new Samsung Instinct S30 has very little in common with the original Instinct except for the large touchscreen display. This features gently rounded corners, sweeping curves, and a new color scheme that makes it a lot different from the original version. The touch sensitive area below the display is used for the call send, home, and back buttons. Hardware keys, such as those on the Samsung Finesse, could have been better.

The hardware controls on the device are all located along its edges. The reception on the Samsung Instinct S30 seems to be above average, but call audio quality is very okay, both for speakerphone and regular phone calls. The contact system in the Instinct S30 is fairly simple, but does have adequate support for multiple email addresses and phone numbers. The scrolling mechanism in the contacts list is good, but there is no obvious search functionality for those with a very large number of contacts. The built-in voice command app on the Instinct S30 is very good and this phone has a good suite of messaging apps that include threaded SMS, picture messaging, and real email. There are three input methods on the device – QWERTY, ABC keyboard, and handwriting. While the Samsung Instinct S30 is a 3G device, it lacks the faster EV-DO Rev A(INFO) support of the older Instinct.

The S30 has a 2MP camera which is not too good, but has a fantastic photo viewer, though, which takes great advantage of the touchscreen. The music experience on the Samsung Instinct S30 is pretty good too. The web browser is good as well – Opera Mini 4.2 is also pre-loaded onto the device, and is quite speedy to use – even with large websites. The user interface is much the same as that of the original Instinct.

On the whole, the Samsung Instinct S30 is reasonably good-looking, offers good features and is quite worth your money. We will be posting videos of the smartphone very soon, so be sure to check back.

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We have for you a two-part video of the Samsung Finesse for MetroPCS. The Finesse is a device that is almost the same as the Samsung Instinct for Sprint. The Finesse is a 3G capable CDMA cell phone that features a 2MP camera, built-in GPS support for navigation apps, a huge 3.7-inch touchscreen display, 1GB microSD card and microSDHC compatible slot for up to 16GB of expandable memory.

We had brought you a recent post about MetroPCS’ Samsung Finesse touchscreen smartphone(click here for original post). This handheld was shown at the ongoing CTIA Wireless 2009 event at Las Vegas. The handset is definitely desirable, though slightly slow on the OS end. The Finesse is available immediately from MetroPCS for $349 off-contract.

Take a look at the video below.

Today, Samsung revealed its SCH-r810 Finesse, a brand new touch phone, bound for MetroPCS. This wonderful phone has quad-band 850/1700/1900 MHz CDMA 1x for data.

The Finesse also employs Samsung’s latest TouchWiz user interface complete with widgets, and includes a full HTML web browser, 2 megapixel camera with flash and video capture, Bluetooth, GPS and microSD cards up to 16GB. The price has been set at $350, though availability has yet to be confirmed.

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