Information Systems

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I was not able to get to a local computer store because, well there isn’t one. The one that was here in town is now an antique shop. I went to Best Buy recently and saw a phone that I really liked. It is called the Samsung Instinct. I have Sprint so I knew I could use the phone. I explored the website later on that night and thought this would be a great opportunity to talk about my really cool new phone.

The Samsung Instinct represents each of the major system components. They include input, storage, and output. There are many ways that the Instinct can do each of these. I will just talk about a few of each.

There is only one way to input information into the Instinct. That is through the touch screen. There are no other keys that can do anything with except bring up go back, home or to the talk screen. It was very confusing at first how to get from one spot to another but I soon figured out that my finger had all the power. I was able to input so much information and every time it took me where I wanted to go. Another example of input on the Instinct is the voice recognition. You can just say someone’s name and it will call them. If there are more then one of a certain name the computer will give you a choice of options. You pick it calls. Other times it calls the persons name you say right away. It was pretty amazing since you don’t have to pre-record the names.

Storage is an important part of this phone. Unfortunately there is not a lot of internal memory on the phone. That’s why Samsung decided to give every one who buys an Instinct a complimentary memory card to go into the phone. That’s a good deal for a consumer to not have to buy extra things for the phone. The memory card allows me to store up to 2 GB. So far I’ve downloaded about 7 ring tones, guitar hero, and stored about 30 songs on the MP3 player. The memory is not even half used up.

An output feature of the Instinct is the fact that you can hook it up to your computer and transfer information to and from the device. It a pretty cool feature since I can upload songs I already have instead of paying for them.

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