Today you will get to know the next Samsung device, Captivate, which AT&T announced that will start selling it from July 18.
The 4-inches touch screen is a Super AMOLED capacitive with 16M colors and 480 x 800 pixels, same as Galaxy S. Multi-touch, accelerometer, proximity sensor, digital compass, swipe text input are all available. Some of you will say this will battle with iPhone 4 retina display, but is not a fair battle, Apple device has 640 x 960 pixels.
Captivate is powered by an ARM Cortex A8 1GHz processor and is an Android based phone. Android v2.1 comes installed, until Froyo(v2.1) will become ready to be used, along the usual Samsung TouchWiz 3.0 user interface.
With Android you can choose to install thousands of apps from the Android Market™ or use integrated social networking tools if you plan to stay updated with your virtual life. Internal memory has 16Gb(microSD card extension is available till 32Gb) and RAM has 512 Mb, enough to boost your mobile experience.
The camera has 5 megapixel and auto-focus, no LED flash, Geo-tagging, touch focus, face and smile detection come at supported features. Videos can be recorded at 720p@30fp. A VGA secondary camera is located on the front of the phone. Under the back cover, the 1500 mAh Li-Ion battery will want to last up to 750 h in stand by mode(2G).
As usual Samsung put connectivity in the top of his list and 3G, GPRS, EDGE, Bluetooth 3.0 with A2DP, Wi-Fi 802.11 b/g/n, microUSB 2.0 and GPS are all available.
AT&T announced that will start selling Samsung Captivate from July 18 and will cost an estimate $199.
