Get Ready To Be Captivated With The Samsung Captivate

With iPhone 4 having recurring problems with its antenna, many AT&T users couldn’t find a worthy substitue. Consumers who wished to purchase an iPhone are now considering the Samsung Captivate as well as Samsung Captivate accessories and what they bring to the table. Although it may not have the exact same features as the iPhone 4, the Captivate is pretty similar to the popular Apple phone.

Design The Samsung Captivate comes in a sleek black tab that has all of the Android 2.1 amenities, including WiFi, a 1GHz processor, a 5 megapixel camera an HD video recorder, Bluetooth 3.0 capabilities, a 6-axis sensor for gaming and motion detection, and 16GB of internal memory to name a few. As soon as you pick up a Samsung Captivate you’ll notice that the screen, at 4 inches, is larger and brighter than the iPhone’s 3.5-inch LCD display. The screen boasts more contrast, better resolution and upgraded technology to the iPhone. Reading text on the Samsung Captivate turns out to be a lot smoother and sharper than reading text on the iPhone 4. One drawback to the design is the faulty backlighting that quickly goes off behind the menu, home, back and search buttons. Because the backlighting randomly goes off when the display is on, the menu buttons are hard to see in the dark. It is recommended that you look into Samsung Captivate cases and Samsung Captivate screen protectors to protect the touchscreen.

Multimedia AT&T crammed the Samsung Captivate with tons of video and other media options. There are options available to use subscription-based streaming media, such as the Samsung Media Hub, where users can download movies and TV shows. As with most 3G phones, YouTube videos are defaulted to display in standard resolution. YouTube videos display much better on the AMOLED touchscreen in high definition mode. Samsung also includes the application, AllShare, which allows one to play files from the phone on other media players through a WiFi network.

Functionality & Web The applications menu has changed from a portable slide to one with 4×4 icons that span the screen horizontally. You can arrange the order of your applications by alphabetical order. While AT&T’s 3G network is currently much faster than it has been in the past, the Samsung Captivate loads webpages slower than the iPhone. In fact, the iPhone loaded webpages about twice as fast as the Captivate on average.

Camera If there is one area where the iPhone completely dominates the Samsung Captivate, it is with their built in cameras. While the iPhone pictures come out beautiful and clear, the Captivate’s pictures look bland and bleamish. There is also no flash with the Samsung Captivate. The difference between video capture is less pronounced, with both phones being about equal. The 30 fps frame rate of the Captivate is well above average for mobile phones.

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