Samsung i897 Captivate
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- Brian Houghton
- 42P
- 05 Aug 2010
Love the phone, everything does exactly as it states except for the battery. Maybe it's just me but I got a bad one. It doesn't last 12 hours with very minimal use. I have everything set to use the least amount of battery and it's still dead before I get home. Have a new one on the way.
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- Mr. Daddy
- b61
- 04 Aug 2010
I have this phone for almost 2 weeks. A few features from this phone are great compare to iPhone. I like the swype keypad, micro-SD card for transfering and receiving files, and attaching files when sending email. But the battery life of this Captivate is so cocky, I upgraded from 3GS to this phone because of Super Amoled technology saves energy. That's not true!! I have to bring my charge cable to my work everyday to charge this 4'' screen. I have installed some apps that running background(Around Me, Movies, etc...) After using those apps, i have to find the way to turn them all off, otherwise those apps will suck the battery in a couple of hours.
People said that Apps on Android market are good? That's B.S. I completely disagree with that. All the apps in Android market are shitty... I think I will be playing with this Android phone for awhile, then I will switch back to my iPhone 4, eventhough I have to hold iphone with my 2 fingers to avoid of touching the antenna grips. iPhone is still da best smart phone out there at this moment.
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- Stranger
- b61
- 04 Aug 2010
Rohit, 03 Aug 2010Can anyone tell me the difference between Samsung Vibrant(t... moreDifferent 3G network band. Vibrant for T-mobile (1700/2100), and Captivate for ATT (850/1900/2100)
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- subata
- utg
- 04 Aug 2010
what about flash .
such a high end phone does not have a flash such a shame.
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- Sam I Am
- 4XG
- 03 Aug 2010
Attn Rohit:
Read the Info, one is an At&t and the other is T-mobile.
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- Rohit
- iwq
- 03 Aug 2010
Can anyone tell me the difference between Samsung Vibrant(this phone) and Samsung i897-Captivate except looks??????
I dont understand why Samsung is launching two phones of almost same features at the same time.
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- ninja Hatori
- P5s
- 03 Aug 2010
Is this phone anyhing like Vodaphone360?
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- Kxh
- 02 Aug 2010
i like it.. because is faster phone.. it's android..
i find it. thanks for
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- Aditya
- w4j
- 02 Aug 2010
Which one is better? this phone or Sony Ericsson Xperia X10? Can anyone compare & let me know please?
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- Anonymous
- 4$E
- 01 Aug 2010
Anonymous, 31 Jul 2010lol... stupid entry... I think you should go back to 1990's... moreGood, you can use the new LCD technology instead of harmful AMOLED.
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- Anonymous
- 4DM
- 31 Jul 2010
Anonymous, 27 Jul 2010AMOLED is definitely worse than a good TFT - ISP with LED b... morelol... stupid entry... I think you should go back to 1990's monochrome display such as on those cheap 2 colors LCD screen Nokia in the 90s. Safe for your eyes pal!!!. Me? I am going use the new LCD technology.
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- Anonymous
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- 31 Jul 2010
I think it is time people who acutally have the phone post their experiences and/or problems. I bought this phone for my wife a couple weeks ago and here are my impressions mostly compared to my i8910.
First off she loves the size and responsiveness of the screen and it has nice resolution. I am not as picky about my screens as some of you guys seem to be. I judge them mostly based on size, resolution, and responsivness. The color/contrast/energy efficiency of the screen isnt a huge selling point to me. The sunlight visibility of the superAMOLED wasn't that impressive. I held my i8910 right up next to it and there wasn't a huge difference in sunlight. The captivate was better, but not by much. Moving on from the screen...texting is also very easy with a big screen, especially with swype pre-installed. The loudspeaker isn't the best but works for the speakerphone pretty well, but lack when watching movies. Tons of memory with 16GB onboard memory and a microSDHC card, But it needs a different video player. i transferred a couple movies to it that i watch on my i8910 no problem, but the captivate was unable to play them. The camera is nothing special and the lack of a flash is laughable. but I love the photo gallery. The video recording is noticeably better than my i8910, I assume due to the 30 fps vs my 20-24. The speed of the phone was great, everything loaded faster and the kinnetic scrolling was much smoother than my i8910. I'm not used to android so I can't comment on the utilities or organizational features like file browsing, copying, editing. I also didn't test out the DLNA or wireless data transferring. No reception issues or problems as of yet either.
Overall i think the phone most noticable drawback with this phone are the camera and lack of flash, and a video player that can't play divx,xvid,avi encoded videos.
Just my 2 cents.
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- Mark Buunds
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- 31 Jul 2010
I don't think this unit is quite ready for prime time; Google for "Samsung Captivate Forums" and you will find that people are having many problems with this phone, mainly with the GPS failing to function properly, but also with software lag, hangs, etc. I think this is the best phone ever, but I am going to wait until all the wrinkles are ironed out.
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- Ishaq
- uWB
- 30 Jul 2010
Apple is famous for all its crap but many more things bug me
> E-fuse on DroidX
> No camera flash on Galaxy S/ Captivate
Seriously! Does any of the companies give us our money's worth?
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- MHL
- jb@
- 30 Jul 2010
Im really bored with phones today? no original designs... They copy each others designs or if not they will just change some areas of the designs... all phones today doesnt have uniqueness... compare this phones design with HTCs designs...
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- gigi
- qFR
- 30 Jul 2010
Great Phone!
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- ravi
- Img
- 29 Jul 2010
Captivate looks great, powered my android 2.1 and a combination of new screen attractive it is. Huge screen, rich look but i still doubt can it be a Iphone killer??
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- Thomas
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- 29 Jul 2010
I have an HTC AT&T Tilt. I found it to be an excellent cellphone for a couple of years. Now I have the Tilt 2. Much smoother; faster, etc. Time marches on; your point is?.....
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- Anonymous
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- 27 Jul 2010
AMOLED is definitely worse than a good TFT - ISP with LED back lit.
An important factor that has to be consider for this Super AMOLED is that the light directly beams into eyes from its source which is OLEDs.
All natural vision of human eyes is when the light comes from reflections of light, generated by sun or lamps, over objects: the photon beams don't directly get from source into eyes; also the beam of phones is not reflected as you may think: you don't get back through reflection the original photons from source; the phones are not as ping-pong balls cast back by objects which they hit; the beam is absorbed by objects, converted in energy and the objects emit other photons back in a sub spectrum of the original beam, lower intensity and broader uniformity over object surface thus giving color to objects and thus protecting the eyes from artificial light that maybe dangerous for human retina when comes from artificial powerful punctiform sources. The LED back lit from TFT is diffused over a white panel then by reflection passes though liquid crystals and get into eye so it is a reflected light, not the original light. OLED like CRT colored phosphors or plasma's pixels directly beam the light into eyes thus you are not protected from X-rays and ultraviolet emissions (UV radiation) and high energy photons which make lesions in organic tissue.
So, TFT displays are safer for health than AMOLED and CRT and plasma displays.
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- Qrg
- 27 Jul 2010
Anonymous, 25 Jul 2010This phone was designed for user with higher IQ than averag... moreso true !!!! ur genius !!!