Samsung Instinct from Sprint's Speech to Action feature highlighted

John Biggs

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Thursday, June 5th, 2008

I’m going to say one thing for Sprint: they’re selling the Instinct with some aplomb and intelligence. By taking entire pages from the iPhone playbook, they’re basically building buzz around the only alternative to Cupertino’s greatest I’ve seen all year. They kind of dorked out in the beginning with their GPS video but this one is pretty good. I mean it’s nothing new — phones have had speech recognition for years. But how many of us have used it?

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