Samsung Galaxy S arrives at AT&T, renamed as the ‘Captivate’
Mobile Phones - Sunday, June 20th, 2010

Samsung Galaxy S arrives at AT&T, renamed as the ‘Captivate’ ATT Samsung CaptivateIt’s a bit late, considering that it’s already been out in Europe during the first week of June—especially when they announced that it’ll be launching around the world at the same time—but Samsung’s Galaxy S finally hits US stores under AT&T as the Samsung Captivate.

The new name looks like its only difference from the original Galaxy S though, since it’s still pretty much the same Android-powered smartphone as the original. That’s not a bad thing, mind you; the Galaxy S—or in this case, the Captivate—is very high-end, highlighted by a huge 4-inch Super AMOLED screen that’s good enough to view comfortably under direct sunlight and a 1GHz Samsung Hummingbird processor to keep things running smoothly.

The rest of the spec is rounded out by a 5-megapixel snapper with 720p HD video recording at 30fps (but without a flash or LED light to go with it), plus 802.11n Wi-fi, HSDPA network support, GPS and Bluetooth v3.0 on an Android 2.1 operating system. The Captivate also sports 16GBs of internal storage to hold whatever you can download off the Android Market, and a microSD card slot for holding everything else.

Preinstalled apps include the Android basics, including the usual Google suite (Android Market, Search, Maps, Gmail, YouTube, Google Talk), social network apps, and DivX/XviD support for video playback. AT&T also adds their Address Book service that syncs contacts to an online file that can be accessed using smartphones and PCs from anywhere with an internet connection.

AT&T didn’t give out pricing or exact launch dates, but it’ll be interesting to see how it fares compared to the upcoming iPhone 4.

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  • http://www.samsungcaptivateforum.com Thurman Palmquist

    Thanks for the nice article, I’m eagerly awaiting my Samsung Captivate through T-Mobile as soon as they basically confirm that they’re carrying it. I was in my neighborhood shop today and experienced a hold of their dummy model. It looks as well as feels very much better than I thought. This is actually going to be the phone to have. Never mind the iPhone 4g, the Galaxy S is where it’s at. As for me, I’m upgrading from a Samsung Pixon after an 18 month contract and am delighted to have ultimately settled on the Galaxy S. The decision process was fraught with many, many hours of analysis on the world wide web. I was close to an HTC Desire and even closer to an Xperia X10 but then, from out of nowhere, I came across the GSMArena.com review of the Galaxy S and it just does everything so well.

  
 
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