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It's a pretty generous gesture for the users of this phone (on average) to rate it it a 7.1 out of 10. The highest rating I could give this phone was in the category of "look and feel", and was only a 7 at the very best. I had a Palm Treo before this phone, and had much fewer problems. Three factors contributed to my purchase of this piece of garbage.And here they are: 1) I was having ongoing problems with my Treo, and was looking for a better alternative 2)Everyone was purchasing iPhones from at&t, and Sprint was comparing it's Samsung Instinct to the iPhone 3)I was eligible for my next $150 towards an upgrade to a new phone (which I decided to waste on an Instinct) So there I was, a proud owner of Sprints version of the iPhone, the Samsung Instinct.This relationship, needless to say, didn't last very long. I had fun at first learning the phone, all it's contents and capabilities, even bragged to my friends. Regretfully I may have even solicited promotion of this phone to a few people. BUT, once the novelty wore off, I started to experience "the problems." In an attempt not to bore the reader of this with unnecessary details. I will just list my problems with this phone (in no specific order). -freeze ups (upon dialing, upon answering, when loading applications) -battery life was horrible and was used up faster when on the web (now i see why it came with TWO batteries) -speaker quality was horrible for youtube videos AND sprint tv and radio -Navigation worked well at first, but then it was no more convenient than stopping at every gas station for directions -photos were good in well lit environments.However loading the pictures was annoying -the battery cover was extremely hard to detach from the phone at first, and not much easier thereafter There were more problems than what I have listed, but I'm sure the will be covered by other reviews. Basically, the major problem was with the freeze issues.(Which is EVERYTHING if the phone is exclusively touchscreen) This phone was seemingly just a collaboration between Sprint and Samsung corporations, to try to compete with the iPhone, whilst bamboozling their customers into purchasing the phone. Sprint needs to get it's act together with their cute little slogans. Simply EVERYTHING? How about simply NOTHING! Or theNOW network? More like TheNEVER or TheMAYBE LATER Network! Heres a cute one for you Sprint. AT%T has the "pay as you go" plan. Maybe you should try the "Pay me to STAY plan!" Because that is just about where I am at after being an 8 year customer.As I wrote this review I discovered yet another problem with my Instinct (which happens to be a replacement phone that I've had for just over a week).So I will be wasting yet more time that I really don't have to go into the Sprint store today to haggle with their CSRs over my options.This may be my final attempt.After todays visit, if I leave with the same disgust over my sprint customer experience in it's entirety, I most certainly will be taking my hard earned dollars elsewhere.I will not be SPRINTing anymore, I will be RUNNING as fast and as far away from Sprint as I can.
John Grogan: A dog has no use for fancy cars, big homes, or designer clothes. A water log stick will do just fine. A dog doesn't care if your rich or poor, clever or dull, smart or dumb. Give him your heart and he'll give you his. How many people can you say that about? How many people can make you feel rare and pure and special? How many people can make you feel extraordinary?
Arnie Klein: Tell your dog not to worry, sooner or later we all lose our balls.
Jorge: Why are you laughing?
Sebastian: I'm just very immature.
Travis Bickle: Shit... I'm waiting for the sun to shine.
Travis Bickle: Thank God for the rain to wash the trash off the sidewalk.
Travis Bickle: The idea had been growing in my brain for some time: TRUE force. All the king's men cannot put it back together again.
Travis Bickle: You're only as healthy as you feel.
Travis Bickle: I should get one of those signs that says "One of these days I'm gonna get organezized".
Betsy: You mean organized?
Travis Bickle: Organezized. Organezized. It's a joke. O-R-G-A-N-E-Z-I-Z-E-D...
Betsy: Oh, you mean organezized. Like those little signs they have in offices that says, "Thimk"?
Wizard: Hey Travis, this here's Doughboy. We call him that 'cause he'll do anything for a buck.
Doughboy: Hi Travis. Got change of a nickel?
Sport: See ya later, copper!
Travis Bickle: I'm no cop, man.
Sport: Well, if you are, then it's entrapment already.
Travis Bickle: I think someone should just take this city and just... just flush it down the fuckin' toilet.
Travis Bickle: The days go on and on... they don't end. All my life needed was a sense of someplace to go. I don't believe that one should devote his life to morbid self-attention, I believe that one should become a person like other people.
Travis Bickle: June twenty-ninth. I gotta get in shape. Too much sitting has ruined my body. Too much abuse has gone on for too long. From now on there will be 50 pushups each morning, 50 pullups. There will be no more pills, no more bad food, no more destroyers of my body. From now on will be total organization. Every muscle must be tight.
Personnel Officer: How's your driving record? Clean?
Travis Bickle: It's clean, real clean. Like my conscience.
Travis Bickle: All the animals come out at night - whores, skunk pussies, buggers, queens, fairies, dopers, junkies, sick, venal. Someday a real rain will come and wash all this scum off the streets. I go all over. I take people to the Bronx, Brooklyn, I take 'em to Harlem. I don't care. Don't make no difference to me. It does to some. Some won't even take spooks. Don't make no difference to me.
Travis Bickle: Loneliness has followed me my whole life. Everywhere. In bars, in cars, sidewalks, stores, everywhere. There's no escape. I'm God's lonely man... June 8th. My life has taken another turn again. The days can go on with regularity over and over, one day indistinguishable from the next. A long continuous chain. Then suddenly, there is a change.
Wizard: You get a job. You become the job.
Wizard: Look at it this way. A man takes a job, you know? And that job - I mean, like that - That becomes what he is. You know, like - You do a thing and that's what you are. Like I've been a cabbie for thirteen years. Ten years at night. I still don't own my own cab. You know why? Because I don't want to. That must be what I want. To be on the night shift drivin' somebody else's cab. You understand? I mean, you become - You get a job, you become the job. One guy lives in Brooklyn. One guy lives in Sutton Place. You got a lawyer. Another guy's a doctor. Another guy dies. Another guy gets well. People are born, y'know? I envy you, your youth. Go on, get laid, get drunk. Do anything. You got no choice, anyway. I mean, we're all fucked. More or less, ya know.
Travis Bickle: I don't know. That's about the dumbest thing I ever heard.
Wizard: It's not Bertrand Russell. But what do you want? I'm a cabbie. What do I know? I don't even know what the fuck you're talking about.
Travis Bickle: Maybe I don't know either.
Travis Bickle: Listen, you fuckers, you screwheads. Here is a man who would not take it anymore. A man who stood up against the scum, the cunts, the dogs, the filth, the shit. Here is a man who stood up.
Passenger: Have you ever seen what a .44 Magnum will do to a woman's pussy? Now that you should see. What a .44 Magnum will do to a woman's pussy that you should see?
Travis Bickle: Now I see this clearly. My whole life is pointed in one direction. There never has been a choice for me.
Travis Bickle: I got some bad ideas in my head.
Travis Bickle: [Travis is trying his guns on the mirror] Huh? Huh?
[Draws]
Travis Bickle: Faster than you, fucking son of a... Saw you coming you fucking... shitheel.
[Reholsters]
Travis Bickle: I'm standing here; you make the move. You make the move. It's your move...
[Draws]
Travis Bickle: Don't try it you fuck.
[Reholsters]
Travis Bickle: You talkin' to me? You talkin' to me? You talkin' to me? Then who the hell else are you talking... you talking to me? Well I'm the only one here. Who the fuck do you think you're talking to? Oh yeah? OK.
[Draws]
Senator Charles Palantine: We meet at a crossroads in history. No longer will the wrong roads be taken.
Betsy: Taking me to a place like this is about as exciting as saying to me "Let's fuck."
