The super-smart Samsung Captivate for AT&T brings a fully integrated
entertainment, messaging and social networking experience to your mobile phone,
thanks to its open and innovative Android 2.1 platform. You'll be able to zip
through the Web and multitask between a bevy of apps with the Captivate's 1 GHz
processor and ultra-fast 7.2 Mbps 3G connectivity.
With integrated Google technology, the Samsung Captivate brings one-touch
access to the popular Google mobile services millions use every day, including
Google Search by voice, Google Maps with Street View, GTalk instant messaging
(with presence capabilities), YouTube, and Picasa. The Captivate also provides
easy access to both personal and corporate e-mail, calendars, and contacts
supported by Exchange Server and Gmail. And through Android Market, you'll get
access to thousands of useful applications, widgets and fun games to download
and install on your phone, with many more apps being added every day.
The Captivate has a large 4-inch Super AMOLED touchscreen display that
provides brighter, thinner, and higher-resolution than traditional screens.
Samsung's innovative display technology makes watching movies, viewing videos
and playing games come to life like never before, even in bright light and
outdoor environments. And messaging is simple and easy with the Captivate's
virtual QWERTY keyboard with Swype technology, which allows you to input text
faster and in a more intuitive way with one continuous finger motion across the
screen keyboard.
At 0.39 inches (9.9mm) thin, the Captivate is the thinnest Android smartphone
on the market, and it packs in a 16 GB internal memory plus 5-megapixel
camera/camcorder with auto-focus and HD video recording (720p resolution). Other
features include fast Wireless-N Wi-Fi networking (802.11b/g), Bluetooth 3.0
technology for hands-free devices and stereo music streaming, microSD memory
expansion (for optional cards up to 16 GB in size), and just under 6 hours of
talk time.
Samsung Social Hub
Offering one-stop shopping for all your updates, the Samsung Social Hub all
your social networking services, messages, personal and business e-mail,
calendars and contacts. It's built around Messaging and Contacts, both of which
initiate the sending and receiving of information--whether it is e-mail, instant
messaging, social network updates or SMS messages. Additionally, calendar
information from portal calendars, such as Google Calendar, and social
networking services are displayed together in one calendar with two-way
synchronization.
The familiar text messaging experience is enhanced with group messaging and
"reply all" functionality for up to 10 contacts, a threaded conversations
format, a consolidated inbox, and enhanced multi-media display.
Key Features
- Fast 3G connectivity via AT&T's HSDPA/UMTS network
(850/1900 MHz bands; 3.6/7.2 Mbps speeds with network availability).
- Ultra-fast Wireless-N Wi-Fi networking (802.11b/g/n) for
accessing home and corporate networks as well as hotspots while on the go.
Connect for free using one of the over 20,000 AT&T Wi-Fi hotspots nationwide.
- Powered by the Android operating system (version 2.1)
with deep integration of Google services and access to thousands of apps to
customize your phone via the Android Market.

- 1 GHz Samsung Hummingbird processor speeds up
everything--from playing games to watching shows to opening files from work.
- Swype input system allows you to input text faster and
easier by gliding your finger around the keyboard, moving from letter to
letter in one continuous motion. The Swype technology then calculates what
word you're intending to type
- Samsung Social Hub provides one stop for all your updates
integrates all your social networking services, messages, personal and
business e-mail, calendars and contacts.
- 4-inch Super AMOLED touchscreen display (480 x 800
pixels, 16 million color depth) is one of the thinnest, most responsive
full-featured smartphones in the industry.
- 5.0-megapixel camera/camcorder with auto-focus and HD video
recording (720p)
- Intelligent voice processor helps enhance voice and
suppress noise for clear communications nearly anywhere. Like the human ear,
the chip isolates your voice, and filters out all the unwanted background
noise, for unsurpassed mobile call clarity without the noise from a busy
street, loud public places, nearby conversations or even sirens going by.
- Multi-format digital audio player
- Next-generation Bluetooth 3.0 connectivity provides
faster throughput while minimizing on power requirements. It's compatible with
new Bluetooth 3.0-enabled devices as well as backward compatible with older
Bluetooth-enabled peripherals such as headsets and printers. It includes
profiles for communication headset, hands-free car kits, and the A2DP
Bluetooth profile--enabling you to wirelessly stream your music to a pair of
compatible Bluetooth stereo headphones or speaker dock.
- 16 GB internal memory
- Memory expansion via microSD card slot with support for
optional cards up to 16 GB.
- YouTube app for streaming video over 3G and Wi-Fi
connections.
- Rich HTML e-mail application seamlessly syncs your
e-mail, calendar and contacts from Gmail as well as most other POP3 or IMAP
e-mail services. The Gmail application provides features such as conversation
view, spam filtering, search, and labels that Gmail users enjoy on their
computer while offering new features such as integration with the phone's
contact list. And it multitasks, so you can read a Web page while also
downloading your e-mail in the background.
- Full HTML Web browser enables you to view more pages and
enjoy better Web content delivered efficiently to your phone.
- Instant messaging support for Google Talk, as well as
AOL, Yahoo! Messenger and Windows Live Messenger. It also supports advanced
text messaging features, enabling you to easily flag, delete or move groups of
messages and keep track of group conversations through threaded text
messaging.
- Text (SMS) and picture/video (MMS) messaging
- Google Calendar app syncs with the Web-based version, so
any event that you add to your phone will show up on the Web-based Google
Calendar (and vice versa).
- Free AT&T Address Book service allows you to sync your
contacts to an online address book, enabling you to access and manage your
mobile contacts from your handset--or your PC. From the online interface, you
can import contacts from other Web-based address books, such as personal
e-mail accounts, as well as send text messages to your contacts' mobile
numbers.
Vital Statistics
The Samsung Captivate weighs 4.5 ounces and measures 4.18 x 2.5 x 0.39 inches.
It runs on the 850/900/1800/1900 MHz GSM/GPRS/EDGE frequencies as well as AT&T's
dual-band 3G network (850/1900 MHz; HSDPA/UMTS).
What's in the Box
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This is a new open-box phone which comes in the retail packaging and is guaranteed in perfect working order by a 30-day MobilePC warranty. The item includes all essential accessories to get up and running, though manuals and other non-essential items may be absent, and no MicroSD cards are included.
This is a new open-box phone which comes in the retail packaging and is guaranteed in perfect working order by a 30-day MobilePC warranty. The item includes all essential accessories to get up and running, though manuals and other non-essential items may be absent, and no MicroSD cards are included.
This is a new open-box item in retail packaging.