14 DAY TRIAL // AT&T has listed the Samsung Captivate as being available and ready to ship for its customers. The smartphone can be bought starting today and is one of the second Galaxy S phones to be released in the US. Released only a few days after Vibrant came out through T-Mobile operator, the Samsung Captivate is yet another high-end Android-based smartphone that made it on the US market, which usually gets a bad treatment compared with the European market.
Rumors say that the Samsung Captivate is a little bit slower and laggier than its different branded brothers, but until a full review of a retail unit will be out in the wild we can only guess that. If this is true it can only come from the proprietary software embedded by the operator (AT&T), as the hardware of the devices are all the same (Captivate, Galaxy S and Vibrant).
Samsung Captivate features one of the largest displays on the market, Super AMOLED 4-inches capacitive touchscreen (480x800 pixels) with 16 Million colors support. The sleek device only measures 122.4 x 64.2 x 9.9 mm and weighs 118g (including battery). Some of its main features include: TouchWiz 3.0 UI, Multi-touch input method, Accelerometer sensor for UI auto-rotate, Touch-sensitive controls, Proximity sensor for auto turn-off, Swype text input, Android 2.1 (Eclair) and 1GHz Hummingbird CPU.
The device comes with 512 MB RAM and 16GB storage space, which can be expanded up to 32GB, thanks to the hot-swappable microSD card slot. Communications features include, HSDPA, 7.2 Mbps and HSUPA, 5.76 Mbps; Wi-Fi 802.11 b/g/n; DLN; Bluetooth 3.0 with A2DP support, GPS with A-GPS support and digital compass. Samsung Captivate also packs a 5-megapixel camera with autofocus, geo-tagging, touch focus, face and smile detection.
Samsung Captivate can be bought starting today from AT&T for just $199.99 with a 2-year service agreement.
