Review of the Samsung Captivate Smartphone

Samsung Captivate Design and Style

The Samsung Captivate is similar to other touch-screen Smartphone's on the market. The design of the Captivate Smartphone is not really that nice. The phone stands 4.18" high x 2.5" wide. The 4-inch AMOLED screen supports 16 million colors with a resolution of approximately 480x800 pixels. The screen displays text very crisp and clean on the phone. The phone seems bigger than most Smartphone's on the market, but it still fits in your pocket plus provides an on-screen clarity that is not seen on most Smartphone's.

The Samsung's Captivate touch screendisplayscreenis really receptive as well as extremely fast. On the bottom of the screen on the Captivate are 4-Android shortcuts such as home, menu, search and back button. The volume button for the Captivate is on the left and the power button is on the right. The Samsung Captivate has an earphone jack port on-top of the phone along with a USB slot. As with other similar phones, the Samsung's Captivate 5-megapixel camera in on the back.

Samsung Captivate User Interface

The Samsung Captivate features Samsung's Touchwiz 3 interface that has new buttons compared to older versions of the interface. You can customize the home screen as you see fit. The Samsung Captivate operates like similar Smartphone's in that you can touch the screen and slide to find exactly what you're looking for. The Samsung Captivate has GPS capabilities allowing you to search and find directions or your location at any time.

Samsung Carrier and Cost

The Samsung Captivate is only available on the AT&T network at this time. You can download Android apps for this phone and as we all know Android is less strict on app control like Apple is with the Iphone. The Samsung Captivate costs anywhere from $100-$500 depending on what plan or special AT&T is offering to its customers.