Samsung Instinct

Wow...unprofessional comes to mind. People rely on these services, and to not even tell your customers Anything? Loving Sprint more every day!!!!

this doesn't help my iphone envy at all. and i had no at&t anvy to speak of. so... what now?

Replace AT&T with Sprint and that article has pretty much been my experience with the Instinct. I only get about 70% of my voicemails through visual voicemail. The rest either mention that it didn't work, so call in to check voicemails, or don't tell me at all. Aggrivating that is the fact that the non-visual voicemails get deleted in five days.

Poor reception? As far as I can tell, my old katana got better reception, but it still wasn't great. Places that show up on their website as fully covered have me missing phonecalls and *usually* getting a voicemail right away.

It's worth pointing out that this dude had issues in the SF Bay area. I live in Tampa Bay & have had zero issues w/AT&T since July 2, the date I got my iPhone 3G S. Everything has worked as expected network-wise, and the phone itself easily exceeds expectations by leaps & bounds.

It kinda hurt to leave Sprint after 8 years; I only wish Sprint & Samsung would've done the Instinct right from Day One to quell my desire to jump ship...

Nope.  I use the 1 person I know with one's iPhone and I have a greater appreciation for Sprint and my BlackBerry.  I found it quite funny when he was making a call couldn't hear the person on the other end and then and kept blaming the coverage in his house (where the person he was calling was at).  So he called  home to the landline and the call still wouldn't go through without reattempting a couple times and then he still couldn't hear them.  The irony of it all is we work around the corner from an ATT MTSO, he hits a tower that runs directly into the MTSO. (I would imagine runs directly into the MTSO, if it runs off the POTS network to the CO and can't make a 200' run into the MTSO then ATT deserves all the problems they have)  ATT capactity FTW!