According to this story:
http://www.globeinvestor.com/servlet/story/GAM.20080704.RBCE04/GIStory/
"Early indicators show the Instinct to be a "phenomenal success" in the United States, where it was launched less than two weeks ago, with Samsung struggling to meet demand, said Marwin Al-Najjar, product marketing manager of handsets at Samsung Electronics Canada Inc.
But Mr. Al-Najjar was quick to acknowledge the Instinct is not trying to be an iPhone. Samsung's device lacks an operating system and does not include software for push e-mail - the feature that allows real-time delivery of messages.
Push e-mail must be added by the phone company using third-party software, and so far Samsung and Bell have not finalized such a feature, he said."
I think it runs on the BREW (Binary Runtime Environment for Wireless) Platform.
So who supplied the J2ME (Java) virtual machine for Instinct - Sprint or Samsung?? Because it needs to be fixed for MIDP 2.0 standard keyboard implementation.
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from what i understand, the phone was a joint venture between sprint and samsung, however, sprint was the one who handled building the OS (which would mean when that guy says there is no OS, he is technically right, but hes just nitpicking) sprint actually outsourced building the OS im pretty sure. heres the deal though. sprint and samsung made this phone together, however, sprint owns all the intellectual properties for the instinct, and as such im almost 100% certain they are responsible for the missing Java implementations, phone OS upkeep and any other problems we may have
I believe the java part is from Qualcomm... could be wrong though.
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