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Samsung ready to roll out fierce iPhone competitor

April 22, 2008

The iPhone has been the phone to beat since it first came out. During a recent trade show, many companies rolled out plans for their hot new iPhone killers.

Samsung has gotten a lot of buzz with a new model called the Instinct, which supposedly surfs the Web at 10 times the speed of an iPhone. The Instinct should be available for Sprint customers at the end of the spring.

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There's so much good stuff just around the corner. Clark's phone is from a Taiwanese company called HTC. It has a built-in GPS as a standard feature. Unlike other GPS systems, this one works off cell towers instead of satellites.

Meanwhile, American cell phone companies have blocked Skype from their units so they can continue ripping off people on international calls. The FCC has upheld the block, but they're bound to lose in a few years when the case works its way through the courts.

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