Samsung M800 Instinct Cell Phone

I intensely dislike this phone.  The reasons are that the user interface is simplistic and buggy.  Moreover, it lacks many features and flexibility that you'd expect from a phone that looks like it is supposed to compete with an iPhone.  Here are some specifics:
The user interface has two kinds of presentations of information: a) a list and b) a grid.  Your favorites apps are in list format so you can't have too many favorites before you have to start scrolling.Scrolling is done by dragging your finger over the display but it measure your drag acceleration and scrolls accordingly.  So this takes practice and some getting use to.  Overall I don't like it.
Your emails and mp3 titles are all in list format which might be acceptable but the user interface is clunky and boring.  For example, I put a chopin prelude cd on my phone and this cd's titles for each song is "Chopin Prelude #1" then ".... #2", etc.  Well you can't see the whole song's name and so there is no way to know which song you're gonna get. You can rearrange songs in the play list but you still can't see the whole title.
The "blocky" list based user interface is limited and it appears the designers did this so they could reuse the same method of interface that was easier to implement than something else that is more usable.
Also the music player is but annoying.  I had a Japanese language lesson put on the phone and it was cool accept when I had to move to a particular lesson.  I'f i am on lesson 5 and want to get to lesson 15, I would have to "hit" the skip button 10 times.   But you have to wait to the the skip button during the skipping.  The skipping takes time.  The whole music phone thing is very disappointing with the phone.
Sometimes you can delete stuff by dragging an item to the trash can icon and other times you can't drag it but you can click on items (they then remain 'selected') then you can hit the trash can.

When you look at the phone history you can't see WHEN someone called at a glance.  You have to click on the phone messages silly '>' icon and then click on another button whichs so-and-so's history of calls.  Why'd they do this?  Probably because their user interface didn't make it easy to put the information on the main list of calls...this seems due to the clunky list interface I was remarking on earlier.
Another thing is the "automatic sleep" mode.  This is designed to prevent you from "butt dialing" but there is some problems.  First when it goes to sleep you can wake it by pressing the power button. But when you wake it by pressing the power button again you have to hold it for a goldilocks number of seconds.  If you hold it too long you'll turn the phone off.  If you don't hold it long enough it will go back to "sleep."  I've had this phone for about 6 months now and I can't tell you the number of times I accidentally turn off the phone because of this stupid feature.  (Hey instinct designers, here's a tip, don't user the power button for the wake up button!)
The Phone's navigation system is pretty good but it seems to have gotten worse with the application upgrades.
This brings me to another problem on the phone.  Say I am navigating and I pull over and want to call someone.  After you make a call you've exitted the navigating app.   Now if someone calls you then you can continue on navigating after they've hung up...This is true about a lot of this phone.  It's all or nothing.  You can't do multiple things on the phone.
Making calls is the most simple thing you'd want to do.  I don't really use the voice feature because it is worse than what I use to have over 5 years ago.  The speaker pick-up is really good so a radio or background noise will interfere with the speech recognition....but I digress.  I was talking about making calls.  After I call someone if I want to hang up I have to slide a hang up button.  This is cool i guess, but here's the problem: after I slide the hang up button the user interface offers me an option to redial or go to contacts or hit a done button.  This seems silly to me.  If I want to redial perhaps I should be able to hit the phone button and it redial the last phone #.  But the real problem is what happens when I am about to hang up and so is the other person on the other line.  If they "beat" me to it my phone will disconnect and the redial button appears under my finger while I am about to slide what was the hang up button.  As a result I accidentally hit "redial" when I just was about to hang up the phone.
Surfing the web is a painful and non enjoyable experience.  It is always in landscape mode and the "virtual" keyboard is dislocated from the typing.  For example, if you want to enter an url or a username, etc, when you click on a button that needs text input a large keyboard appears in place of the web.  You type what you want and then hit done and it enters the text in the input box.
This is not so bad but it's not cool like iPhone.  Moreover, the keyboard doesn't use any intelligence when typing keys.  So I am constantly mistyping stuff because it you slightly miss a key and type another key it will type it.  In contrast other phones use a technology that can sense which letter you MEAN to type based on what is more likely.  In addition, to this, when I type sometimes it seems to "hang up" and then it catches up and types the "k" five times because I hit that many times to see if it is alive.
There is supposed to be an accelerometer in the phone but you use that to surf the web by holding the "picture" button and titling the phone.  It is the most silly thing I've seen and very useless.  Moreover you cannot go to "portrait" mode when in web mode.   The phone aggravates me to no end.
In short everything about this phone is a pain.  I disklike it to no end.