Sean’s Rant

This is a necessary update that wasn’t a live update, which automatically updates the phone for you. Point your Instinct browser to this link (http://www.handmark.com/downloads/2483/SamsungM800EX.jad) and you will get the update.

This just in… Pandora will no longer be a $2.99  charge for Sprint users. I was gladly paying for it before but I’ll use it for free also! Thanks Tim Westergren!  (Pandora Founder)

So if you use Pandora on the Instinct, you have noticed that the sound is very low in the headphone setting.

There is an actual hack in the phone to change the maximum volume setting, which requires messing with the programming in your phone. Not many people want to go through this. If you do here you go – This is an excerpt from a post on Buzz About Wireless.

Of course you’ll need the Instinct MR-4 update, and to download opera mini from Opera’s website, but after that you can now experience:

-Better Browsing from the Opera’s smart browsing. Instead of scrolling side to side it shrinks it to size.

Instinct update just went live. Read about the details on it here:

What I’m looking for:

-Opera Mini 4.2 support (YES! The keyboard Shows Up!) They added a button!

-Standard Document support

Taken from BAW (Buzz About Wireless):

Not yet. I just tried and got nothin. 

I will check periodically throughout the day, and mostly will be keeping my eye on the BAW instinct forum for someone who has successfully loaded it.

***UPDATE*** It’s live now

11/19/2008 is the proposed date for release of the fourth instinct update.

Some major changes that are supposed to be in it:

-Java Keyboard support for 3rd party apps like Opera Mini! (This will be sweet and I have left Opera Mini installed even though it doesn’t work in hopes that it will when the update comes).