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Will the slingplayer mobile work on the New Sprint Instinct phone coming out in June?
I'd say no, at least initially. It's a new, proprietary OS. Tough to say if it will get a client if it's the only phone using that OS..
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A program for Windows Mobile doesn't run on Palm and vice versa. The instinct has a different OS and programs have to be made to run on it.
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Worcester, MA, United Stateshw said: what is the diffrent with the Palm OS and Propietary OS..Well, everything. They have nothing in common. Palm OS is the operating system developed by Palm (and owned by ACCESS these days after Palm split into PalmOne and Palm Source, and ACCESS bought Palm Source, then PalmOne became Palm again) and used on devices like the Palm Centro and Palm Treo series. The OS in the Instinct appears to be an in-house proprietary OS. And the Instinct is not being marketed as a smartphone, but rather a 'feature phone', which is basically a category between basic cell phones and smartphones. Since it doesn't run any of our supported operating systems (Palm OS, Windows Mobile, or Symbian S60) or even one we're working on (Symbian UIQ, Blackberry, or iPhone), I don't think you'll be seeing SlingPlayer Mobile on that phone. I would never say never, but I wouldn't count on it happening.
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So the Samsung Instinct (Sprint) was released this past June 20, 2008 and no one has posted after the release yet. I know all arrows point in the unfavorable direction but has anyone actually tried uploading Slingplayer mobile onto the Samsung Instinct, firsthand? I'm thinking about getting the instinct but whether its compatible with Slingplayer will play a big role in my decision. Thanks all.
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Worcester, MA, United StatesThe only versions of SlingPlayer Mobile are for Palm OS, Windows Mobile, and Symbian. The Instinct runs none of those. It won't work, period.
-MegaZone, Sling Media Beta Manager
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This is what puzzles me about why so many Windows Mobile owners are so fired up over the Instinct. It's NOT NOT NOT a Windows Mobile phone. It will NOT NOT NOT run Windows Mobile software. Including Slingplayer. So why are so many people looking at the Instinct as an "upgrade" from the Touch? Even a guy at the Sprint store told me, point blank and with a straight face, that the Instinct was the Touch's upgrade.
The Touch is a WM6 phone and there are threads here that say it works great.
I'm a WM fan and mostly wouldn't consider a phone with a proprietary OS. Mostly because of being able to load 3rd party apps. The Instinct is trying to compete with the iPhone so Samsung or whoever came up with their own OS to try and make something different that people would want. To me, they're making it unusable by limiting what I can do with it.
Sprint is marketing the Instinct as the Touch upgrade because they don't have an iPhone..
All that being said, I'm getting a 3G iPhone just because it's a great phone for the money and I can still use my WM phone when I want to..
Another thing.. When HTC releases a new Touch, (There is a Touch Diamond and Touch Pro, I don't know for sure what Sprint will have) Sprint will be selling them as the Instinct upgrade.
I guess maybe all this can be attributed to slow timing on HTC's part.
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Agreed and yes, I have an iPhone coming as well. Got a Blackberry now in addition to the Touch but I keep the Touch because....well, I can't even be sure there's ever going to be a Slingplayer for Blackberry, let alone when it might be.
Per the Touch, the last version of Slingplayer introduced the "fix" that HTC didn't see fit to do to it's own system. It works fine on my Touch now.
I was a WM fan but I think the Touch will be my last WM phone. There's not much outside of HTC available and with HTC's lousy track record, I'd rather just get something else and be done with it. It's a shame, I've been using WM phones for years, but enough is enough. If they can't grow up and act like a responsible company, I'll buy from a company who can.
OK, today, i went to the sprint shop to try out the video clip on the instinct phone,somehow the video on the instinct is smaller than my PALM, i though if i get the instinct so i can watch slingplayer in the futures, but i guess not, on top of that, the instinct is $500 buck, i rather keep my palm..
Instinct is a Java handset with a big screen and a slick UI... nothing more. Not even in same league as WM devices. And speaking of WM devices, look at a Treo 800w before swearing them off forever. It's the best WM device I've ever seen. Great tweaks were made to the OS by Palm and it's simply supersonic-fast.
Todd/Indy
I like the 800w. Was thinking it'd be a good second phone. But Sling doesn't work on it yet and Sprint has seriously adjusted their SERO plan making it harder to get in and more pricey.
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Zatz Not Funny!
Hi, Dave...
Sure hope to see SPM on this device soon. It so darn blazing fast (both UI and data thruput) that it'd be a great SPM platform. I've been blaming Sprint for the lackluster download speeds (~250kbps) here in Indy; I'm seeing ~700kbps in the same places with the 800w. Skyfire loads web pages instantly, even big ones like ESPN. It's simply amazing.
Todd/Indy
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