Unfortunately, I don’t really know much about any future Instinct 2’s, I did see something of a cheaper, “Instinct mini” online (from BoyGeniusReport.com), but not much information is known right now other than it’s a smaller, thinner, cheaper (and possibly less feature packed, rumor around the web is no 3G– this is kinda like the rumors about the iPhone Nano actually: smaller, cheaper and no 3G) version of the current Instinct. This is said to come this Spring, possibly April 19.

I’m not sure if its worth the wait though, as the Instinct right now can be had at anywhere from FREE (I saw this at Radioshack.com) to $129.99 at Sprint.com, already not bad pricing. And as it sounds like you got your Instinct recently, you probably were somewhere in that price range so waiting a couple months for something that may only be a little bit cheaper (and something that might have less features particularly 3G) may not be worth it to you. Of course, if we hear anything new we’ll make sure to pass it along.

If you are into waiting for something new, and don’t wanna stay with the Instinct, then you may wanna wait for the Palm Pre to drop, which its expected to do within the next couple of months. We wrote about it here, and it looks like an awesome phone with not just a multi-touch touchscreen, but a slide out keyboard too (and lemme just say from having had a Palm Treo 650, Palm’s keyboards are awesome and are great for texting )!

Hope this helps.

-Eli

I’m talking bout apps like Opera Mini, as well as some other random ones I’ve seen online. From what I can tell, most seem to work (some better than other I’ll admit, and none as good as an iPhone/iPod Touch app). I only saw the Opera Mini app in person, and while it initially had some problems with the keyboard, it seems to work ok now.

Again, these unofficial apps are no where near the quality of iPhone’s apps, but this is where I thought an Instinct App Store would come in and fix all that so that the apps are on or near iPhone quality.

In terms of finding apps, all I can recommend is going to Google and searching as I don’t personally own an Instinct and don’t really know of any other sites to go to. If you are going to do this heavy searching for apps, I’d recommend first going to a site like download.com and getting the free McAfee SiteAdvisor (we wrote about it here), it gives a little mark next to the sites you Google telling you if clicking on the particular link takes you to a good site, or a site that can harm your computer (this is especially important as you look to download files, which may lead to unknowingly downloading a virus).

Hope this helps and best of luck in your search for apps (and feel free to post any good finds back here )

-Eli