Tag archive: Samsung Captivate

AT&T hasn't had a good year. Verizon's 4G LTE network has already launched and is an entire year ahead of its own, the U.S. Justice Department is now suing to stop its merger with T-Mobile, and the iPhone is now available on not one, but two rival wireless carriers. The good thing is, with the pressure on, AT&T's handset prices are much lower than Verizon's, and their specs are quite comparable (minus the whole… Read More

Android’s Gingerbread has been on the market since the launch of the Nexus S in December 2010, but it still hasn’t made it to most Android handsets. AT&T is doing its part to change that, announcing yesterday that every Android phone released for AT&T in 2011 will have Gingerbread by the end of the year.  It did state that not all updates will be possible over the air, and that some updates would either have to happen over Wi-Fi or… Read More

According to Android Central, beginning today, AT&T will push updates to “select” Android phones that enable non-market installations. Until now, AT&T has disabled Android's ability to download apps from the Web or a computer, restricting users to the Android Market. This meant that Amazon's Appstore, which can only be downloaded from the Web, was unavailable for Android users on AT&T. Users of the HTC… Read More

Market research company NPD is reporting that when it comes to consumer smartphone preference, the bigger the better. Tiny, sliver-sized phones have become a thing of the past and people are now willing to sacrifice space in favor of richer, larger, fully-featured media experiences. According to NPD’s claims, the demand for phones with displays ranging between 3.5 and 3.9 inches have leveled out, but consumer interest in those with 4-inch… Read More

Whether you know it as the Fascinate, Epic 4G, Vibrant or Captivate, Samsung’s Galaxy S is finally ready for an update to Android 2.2, also known as Froyo. Or at least, it is if you have the technical chops. Samsung’s Open Source Release Center released the source code for the update on Wednesday, meaning techy-savvy Android users can grab the update immediately, and officially sanctioned versions tweaked by carriers should be on the way… Read More

Samsung launched the Galaxy S series of smartphones as four slightly tweaked models across the four major carriers: Vibrant (T-Mobile); Captivate (AT&T); Fascinate (Verizon); Epic 4g (Sprint). While this makes it very confusing for shoppers, it also offers lots of options, if you’re not locked into any one carrier. Looking at the Galaxy S line, but having trouble pinpointing the differences between the phones? We have you covered. Despite… Read More

The summer of the smartphone is upon us. With the arrival of a new messiah phone from Cupertino (Apple iPhone 4, $200 on AT&T), the very first 4G phone in the U.S. (HTC Evo 4G, $200 on Sprint), and the fastest Android device on the market (Samsung Captivate, $200 on AT&T), smartphone buyers have never faced a better slate of options – or a more confusing one. While it’s tough to go wrong with any of these Herculean challengers,… Read More

The “grip of death” antenna issue with the Apple iPhone 4 has become a bit of a PR albatross on the device's back. Apple has (correctly) pointed out that a number of phones from a broad range of manufacturers also exhibit significant signal loss when held in particular ways—there's just no denying that putting a big insulator like a hand or a skull right next to a small radio is going to cause some signal loss.… Read More