Last week, Sprint announced the Samsung Instinct. It is a nice try to compete with the iPhone, but it just isn’t an iPhone. It runs on a great network (Sprint has an excellent data network), but Samsung and Sprint aren’t known for their cutting edge user interfaces. In addition, the iPhone has iTunes which is an easy to use application and actually works on the Mac; will the Instinct ever have Mac software? Unlikely as Sprint’s commitment to the Mac is mediocre at best. Granted it does have EVDO and some other cool features, but it doesn’t have the buzz of the iPhone and won’t have the third party applications that the iPhone will have in a few short months.
I’d love to see the iPhone on Sprint, but with Sprint heavily invested in this phone, even when the iPhone exclusivity with AT&T expires, the chances of this happening will be almost zero. I really like the iPhone and the only thing I have against the phone is AT&T.