- 3G-enabled, Android 2.1-powered smartphone with 4-inch Super AMOLED touchscreen display and 16 GB internal memory
- Fast Wireless-N Wi-Fi networking with free access to over 20,000 AT&T Wi-Fi hotspots nationwide
- 5-megapixel camera; 720p HD video recording; Bluetooth 3.0 connectivity; microSD expansion; Swype keyboard
- Up to 5 hours, 50 minutes of talk time, up to 340 hours (14+ days) of standby time; released in July, 2010
- What's in the Box: handset, rechargeable battery, charger, wired stereo headset, USB cable, quick start guide
Amazon.com Product Description
The super-smart Samsung Captivate for AT&T brings a fully integrated entertainment, messaging and social networking experience to your mobile phone, thanks to its open and innovative Android 2.1 platform. You'll be able to zip through the Web and multitask between a bevy of apps with the Captivate's 1 GHz processor and ultra-fast 7.2 Mbps 3G connectivity.
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My wife and I both got new Samsung Captivates two days after they were released. We were incredibly excited to get them but it turned out to be a nightmare. The micro-USB charger/USB cord is a joke. It simply will not stay plugged into the phone which made charging or downloading my music from my computer almost impossible. If you held the cord pressed into the socket it would sometimes connect, but most often when you set the phone down even the weight of a couple of inches of the cord was enough to unplug it. It was the same with both phones and both micro-USB cables. A phone that you can't keep charged isn't much of a phone. Then the reception in areas where before we had no problems was terrible. Lots of dropped calls, and even the opposite: At times the phone would not hang up correctly. One would hit the "end call" button for a busy signal and the phone would go black so you thought it had disconnected, yet a minute or five later when I'd pick up the phone it would still be at a busy signal eating up minutes. The camera was awesome, the display and the panels feature was easy to use, the Internet was clear and all those features seemed to work well. Applications that are available are amazing, but the thing is a crummy phone. Not being able to sort contacts by last name alone almost killed it for me. I've a couple of hundred business contacts that were sorted by last name or company name, but this phone can't even do that. I know you can do a "search" for a contacts but one shouldn't have to do that. It is the simplest of things to sort a database by last names and it is wholly beyond me why this feature isn't in the phone. Lots of little bugaboos like that plague the phone features and I'm afraid it won't be till version 5.0 that they get it right. Ours are going back in tomorrow's mail and we are downgrading to simpler non-Android phones, because we need a phone that actually works as a telephone.
Rating: 1 / 5
It has been very disappointing that Samsung released this phone without giving much thought, if any, to the demand for any of the accessories - like the docking station and other "official" Samsung accessories. Had I known that week after week would go by without being able to order any of the accessories I'd really like, then I would not have purchased it (I bought it on the first day it became available).
It's a good enough phone, but it could be better with an LED flash for the camera. The screen looks great, but that is really the only thing that sets it apart from some of the other Android devices. Other than that, between Samsung's horrible planning on the availability of accessories and the lack of a flash, it is nothing really special. If I had it to do over again, then I may have gone with an iPhone.
Rating: 2 / 5
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