Samsung Captivate

When Samsung set out to dominate the global smartphone market with the release of the Samsung Galaxy S worldwide, they weren’t playing around. Adding to the already impressive tally of Galaxy S phones sold around the world and a lead in the US market for all mobile phones, the Android smartphone has surpassed 1 million [...]

Driving home the fact that this is the phone media buffs need to buy (after we learned it was the first Android phone to get official DivX HD video certification), SRS is announcing that their 5.1 Virtual Surround technology can be found in all Galaxy S Smartphones. The feature can be enabled by an easy-to-spot [...]

Forget playing with SCVNGR to earn yourself a measly fifty bucks off the Samsung Captivate. If you head over to Amazon now you can score the Galaxy S handset for a whopping one cent with a new two-year contract. That’s the sort of deal you just can’t beat, especially when brick and mortar establishments are [...]

In a case of irony at its best, AT&T is teaming up with SCVNGR to use its geo-location services to provide discounts for the Samsung Captivate, a phone notoriously noted for the GPS problems that plague it. The promotion is using SCVNGR’s challenge system to provide rewards to users who complete certain AT&T-centric check-ins. Earning [...]

It’s usually a painful (and intimidating, depending on the carrier) process to SIM unlock a device, but the Samsung Galaxy S’s unlock codes for the American GSM versions – AT&T’s Captivate and T-Mobile’s Vibrant – are so easily attainable that you don’t need to make a phone call to anyone: they’re stored in a .BAK [...]

Carla Saavedra, web product analyst for Samsung Mobile support, recently tweeted information about a software update Samsung is hard at work on to fix the GPS problems that plague the Galaxy S line of Android smartphones. According to Saavedra, the update should be available in September.
The Samsung Vibrant and Samsung Captivate seem to be the [...]

The Samsung Galaxy S (Captivate, specifically) was successfully overclocked to 1.2GHz the other day  (stability pending), but what if you could overclock it to 1.6GHz? According to the hacker that produced the first OC kernel for the device, it’s definitely possible. It’s very scary, too. I could run the Pentagon with a 1.6GHz Samsung Galaxy [...]

What’s a phone without some great accessories to back it up? Samsung’s unveiled a premium line of accessories for their Samsung Galaxy S phones – all inclusive – that should get a majority of you potential buyers (and current owners) ready to throw down the green for them. Offerings include a desktop and car dock, [...]

AlienBabelTech is back again with some detective work on their part regarding the HTC Glacier that we saw leaked through an OpenGL performance benchmark database a couple of weeks back. This time, the phone’s GPU data has been tested and put up against one of the best GPUs on the market: Samsung’s PowerVR SGX 540 [...]

Looking for a great deal on what is arguably the best Android phone currently available for AT&T? Look no further than Amazon, where the phone is being offered for $49.99 with a new individual two-year contract. If you are on an individual contract but not a new customer you can snag the phone for $99.99. [...]

Not to be outdone by Bell and their staked claim as the first Canadian carrier to release the Galaxy S, Rogers has just issued a blog post over at their RedBoard touting the imminent arrival of their own version of the phone. They will be getting the Samsung Captivate, the same version of the Galaxy [...]

Samsung’s Open Source website has just officially distributed the source code for the Samsung Captivate to anyone willing (and understandably wanting) to download it. The 161MB source package will help developers in creating ROMs for the device for users in the root community to enjoy. This is nothing new for Samsung: the Samsung Vibrant’s (SGH-T959) [...]

Samsung’s uploaded a new video to their USA YouTube account showing off all of the Galaxy S phones headed to (or already launched on) each of the nation’s four biggest carriers. The Samsung Vibrant (T-Mobile) and Samsung Captivate (AT&T) are paraded around as their yet-to-be-released brethren Samsung Epic 4G (Sprint) and Samsung Fascinate (Verizon) looks [...]

MobiTV isn’t the first app to refuse to open when connected to a Wi-Fi network (I’m looking at you, Skype with Verizon), but given the video streaming nature of the app it does seem like one that would be a no-brainer for Wi-Fi use. Wait, so video streaming uses a lot of data bandwidth? And [...]

Samsung’s looking to introduce a cable that will send video signal through the microUSB cable and convert it to HDMI for easy viewing on your HDTVs. Previously, the Galaxy S phones were only able to do video-out through the 3.5mm headphone jack, but it wasn’t the best solution for those with widescreen and high definition [...]

Love your Samsung Captivate but does all of the AT&T bloatware and disabled sideloading got you feeling a bit disenfranchised? If you don’t mind thumbing your nose at the man while take a few constructive liberties with the software of your device, BriefMobile has a complete guide to removing all traces of AT&T from your [...]

Samsung’s getting that Galaxy S advertisement campaign going – just as they’ve been doing for quite some time – but their latest print ad is sure to put a nice smirk (or a big smile if it really arouses you) on the face of any tech geek that sees it. In a section of the [...]

The friendly folks at Samsung just forwarded along this new TV spot that will be broadcast across the US starting tonight. For the first half you wouldn’t even realize it’s a cell phone commercial, which is actually kind of neat. In fact the opening seconds showcase technology that is rather archaic leading up to an [...]

If you didn’t already catch AT&T in the act of selling this device ahead of street date, then you can now walk into any of their retail locations to grab up the newly released Samsung Captivate – a Galaxy S smartphone. The device is available for $499.99 without a two-year contract and $199.99 if you [...]

When you walk into the AT&T store this Sunday to grab your new Samsung Captivate (that’s if you haven’t already been able to do it), you’ll find the norm: a cardboard box, a phone inside, some manuals, unneeded plastic, and the accessories to accompany your shiny new device. If you’re a suit-wearing AT&T higher-up, however, [...]