The Samsung Captivate SGH-i897, a versatile slab-style touchscreen smartphone, is another Android-based device that recently joined the competitive smartphone landscape. Available from AT&T, it boasts an astonishing AMOLED screen, a 5-megapixel camera with HD video recording, great social networking features and tons of useful apps, easily making it the carrier's most powerful Android offering to date.
At about 4.5 ounces, the Captivate is quite lightweight considering its large size (4.78" high x 2.5" wide x 0.39" deep). Its best feature is undoubtedly the 4-inch WVGA (480 x 800 pixels, 16 million colors) Super AMOLED capacitive touchscreen, which offers better responsiveness and wider viewing angles while using less power. The screen supports pinch-to-zoom capability and is also integrated with a 6-axis accelerometer.
The Captivate runs on the Android 2.1 platform (will be upgradeable to 2.2), which means you get a comprehensive set of Google elements like Android Market, Google Maps with Street View, Google Calendar and YouTube. Using Samsung's TouchWiz 3.0 interface, the handset comes with some new widgets on its seven customizable home screens. For instance, Buddies Now provides a quick way of calling or texting your favorite contacts. Besides, Social Hub combines streams from your Facebook, MySpace and Twitter accounts into a single view. That way, you can keep up with your friends and family wherever you go.
Apart from social networking, the handset is packed with threaded text messaging, picture/video messaging, and instant messaging clients for Google Talk, AIM, Windows Live Messenger and Yahoo Messenger. It offers access to POP3/IMAP and corporate email accounts, calendars, and contacts supported by Exchange Server and Gmail. You can easily compose messages and emails using the on-screen QWERTY keyboard or Swype keyboard.
As for entertainment features, the Captivate sports a multi-format music player, a video player with 5.1-channel surround sound, Mobile TV, DLNA and TV-out capability. Its built-in camera with auto-focus and 4x digital zoom snaps 5-megapixel images and records 720p HD-quality videos. In addition, the phone supports several AT&T services including AT&T Mobile Music, AT&T Family Map, AT&T Navigator and AT&T Address Book.
Moreover, you will find 3G, Wi-Fi, full HTML web browsing, GPS, Bluetooth, speakerphone and voice recognition. With 16GB of internal memory and up to 32GB of expandable memory (via a microSD card), the Captivate has more than enough space for storing photos, songs, video clips and other files. It also comes with a 3.5mm headphone jack.
Without dispute, the Samsung Captivate SGH-i897 is a supremely capable handset that will captivate Android fans with its excellent multimedia elements, intuitive social networking experience and Google service integration.
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