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Probably the biggest attention-getter of this year's CTIA Wireless 2008 in Las Vegas was the Samsung Instinct (pictured) from Sprint. The device, which features a touch screen and ultra-fast Internet speeds, boasts its lower-than-the-iPhone price tag of about $300, while still packing in features.

The Instinct measures 2.17 inches by 4.57 inches by 0.49 inches and weighs less than 4.5 ounces. It features advanced functions like Visual Voicemail, which lets users listen to messages in their order of preference and manage them with a screen tap. It also offers support for corporate and consumer POP3 email accounts, multitasking that lets users play music in background mode while surfing the Internet, texting or playing games; a 2.0 megapixel camera with camcorder and expandable microSD memory of up to 8 Gb. Other features include stereo Bluetooth 2.0, an integrated world clock, SMS voice and text messaging with threaded text, phone as a modem, picture caller ID and Sprint Mobile Sync.

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