Samsung Captivate Continues AT&T Android Momentum
AT&T Friday unveiled the Samsung Captivate, a Google Android 2.1 smartphone that packs in a 4-inch AMOLED WVGA touch screen; a 1GHz Samsung Hummingbird processor; a 5-megapixel camera; high-definition 720p video capture; and 16 GB of internal memory, upgradable to 32 GB. The Samsung Captivate also boasts 802.11n Wi-Fi connectivity, Bluetooth 3.0 and high-speed 3G HSPA at 7.2 Mbps.
The Samsung Captivate is part of Samsung's Galaxy S smartphone line. It adds a new social networking offering dubbed Samsung Social Hub, which integrates users' social networking accounts, messages, e-mail, calendars and contacts into a single interface similar to Motorola with MotoBlur or HTC with Sense.
So far, AT&T has not revealed pricing or an exact release date for the Samsung Captivate, except to say it will be available in coming months.
AT&T was the last major carrier to hit with a smartphone based on Google Android and was beaten to the punch by rivals Verizon and T-Mobile. The Samsung Captivate officially marks AT&T's third Google Android smartphone, and the carrier has said that it plans to dig its heels deeper into Android this year.
AT&T first made it onto the Android scene with the Motorola BackFlip in February. And earlier this week AT&T unveiled the HTC Aria, its second Google Android play.