From the house of the second largest conglomerate comes the latest Android device: the Samsung i897, which has also been termed as the Samsung Captivate. This appealing handset features a lot of powerful traits, and is thought to be competitive to the iPhone. The phone runs on the Android 2.1 (Éclair) operating system, with the combination of ARM Cortex A8 1GHz processor. This feature-rich smartphone is quite tempting and boasts of good looks too! The Samsung Captive, the newest, Android-running addition to Samsung’s Galaxy lineup, will be coming to the AT&T network, so Samsung i897’s AT&T version will be called Samsung Galaxy S.
The Samsung i897 Captivate handset accompanies with it a Super AMOLED capacitive touchscreen of 4 inch, and supporting 16M colours and 480 x 800 pixel resolution. The phone incorporates the TouchWiz 3.0 user interface, and a multi-touch input method. Even auto-rotation of the user interface is possible due to the support of the accompanying Accelerometer sensor. Along with the touch-sensitive controls, the handset also includes the Proximity sensor for auto-turnoff, and the Swype text input.
The Samsung i897 Captivate handset provides provision for connectivity through the 2G GSM 850 / 900 / 1800 / 1900networks and 3G HSDPA 850 / 1900 / 2100 networks. Other connectivity and data transfer options include the support for Class 12 (4+1/3+2/2+3/1+4 slots), 32 – 48 kbps GPRS and Class 12 EDGE. On the 3G networks, the connectivity provided comprises of speeds as HSDPA with 7.2 Mbps and HSUPA with 5.76 Mbps. Wi-Fi connectivity is great with the support for 802.11 b/g/n; DLNA. Other connectivity options include the Bluetooth which is v3.0 with A2DP, a v2.0 micro USB port, but no infrared port.
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In terms of phonebook and memory support, the Samsung i897 Captivate smartphone seems quite sufficient, with the support for practically unlimited entries and records in the phonebook, the support for the Photocall feature, and the practically unlimited storage of call records. The phone also associates with it a 16 GB of internal storage, and a 512 MB RAM, and is also accompanied with the support of the micro SD card slot, which can support up to 32 GB. The phone is also accompanied by a 3.5 mm audio jack.
Among the multimedia entertainment features, the Samsung i897 Captivate phone scores quite well too, with the accompanying 5 MP camera with features like autofocus, Geo-tagging, touch focus, face and smile detection,and video recording of 720p at the rate of 30fps. Even a secondary VGA camera is also escorted with it.
Other noteworthy features include the Social networking integration for faster access to the social networking sites, Digital compass, MP4 / DivX / WMV / H.264 / H.263 player, MP3 / WAV / eAAC+ / AC3 / FLAC player, Organizer, Image / video editor, Document editor for editing documents in the formats of Word, Excel, PowerPoint or PDF, Google Search, Maps, Gmail, YouTube, Calendar, Google Talk, Picasa integration for accurate image editing, Flash Lite v3.1, Voice memo / dial / commands, and many more.
The Samsung i897 Captivate handset also includes the support for A-GPS, Stereo FM radio with RDS, an HTML browser, and messaging techniques as SMS (threaded view), MMS, Email, Push Mail, IM and RSS. The handset is expected to be released soon in the coming months. So, those of you who have got rather mesmerized by the looks and features of this high-end handset, keep anticipating its arrival!
