http://www.engadget.com/2010/06/22/exclusive-samsung-captivate-for-atandt-preview/ Engadget Comments for Exclusive: Samsung Captivate for AT&T preview http://www.engadget.com/media/feedlogo.gif http://www.engadget.com en-us Copyright 2012 Weblogs, Inc. The contents of this feed are available for non-commercial use only. Blogsmith http://www.blogsmith.com/http://www.engadget.com/2010/06/22/exclusive-samsung-captivate-for-atandt-preview/http://www.engadget.com/2010/06/22/exclusive-samsung-captivate-for-atandt-preview/Jun 22nd 2010 11:18AMhttp://www.engadget.com/2010/06/22/exclusive-samsung-captivate-for-atandt-preview/http://www.engadget.com/2010/06/22/exclusive-samsung-captivate-for-atandt-preview/
Looking at the design, it looks like they have everything necessary to upgrade to WP7 :) Too bad HTC didn't do that with the HD2...]]>Jun 22nd 2010 11:26AMhttp://www.engadget.com/2010/06/22/exclusive-samsung-captivate-for-atandt-preview/http://www.engadget.com/2010/06/22/exclusive-samsung-captivate-for-atandt-preview/you do know that this is an *android* phone, not a winmo phone, right?]]>Jun 22nd 2010 11:27AMhttp://www.engadget.com/2010/06/22/exclusive-samsung-captivate-for-atandt-preview/http://www.engadget.com/2010/06/22/exclusive-samsung-captivate-for-atandt-preview/
(and yes, I know this is an Android phone. It was a joke)]]>Jun 22nd 2010 11:28AMhttp://www.engadget.com/2010/06/22/exclusive-samsung-captivate-for-atandt-preview/http://www.engadget.com/2010/06/22/exclusive-samsung-captivate-for-atandt-preview/the world needs more stock android experience phones. :[]]>Jun 22nd 2010 12:19PMhttp://www.engadget.com/2010/06/22/exclusive-samsung-captivate-for-atandt-preview/http://www.engadget.com/2010/06/22/exclusive-samsung-captivate-for-atandt-preview/Jun 22nd 2010 12:25PMhttp://www.engadget.com/2010/06/22/exclusive-samsung-captivate-for-atandt-preview/http://www.engadget.com/2010/06/22/exclusive-samsung-captivate-for-atandt-preview/Jun 22nd 2010 12:59PMhttp://www.engadget.com/2010/06/22/exclusive-samsung-captivate-for-atandt-preview/http://www.engadget.com/2010/06/22/exclusive-samsung-captivate-for-atandt-preview/
IPHONE FTW! SAMSUNG SUCKS BOOO!

No wander apple picked AT&T and now samsung wants to copy apple huh. Idiots. ]]>Jun 22nd 2010 1:01PMhttp://www.engadget.com/2010/06/22/exclusive-samsung-captivate-for-atandt-preview/http://www.engadget.com/2010/06/22/exclusive-samsung-captivate-for-atandt-preview/
Nice specs, but I don't trust Samsung to update this phone.]]>Jun 22nd 2010 1:03PMhttp://www.engadget.com/2010/06/22/exclusive-samsung-captivate-for-atandt-preview/http://www.engadget.com/2010/06/22/exclusive-samsung-captivate-for-atandt-preview/
Correction: "wonder"]]>Jun 22nd 2010 1:14PMhttp://www.engadget.com/2010/06/22/exclusive-samsung-captivate-for-atandt-preview/http://www.engadget.com/2010/06/22/exclusive-samsung-captivate-for-atandt-preview/Jun 22nd 2010 2:27PMhttp://www.engadget.com/2010/06/22/exclusive-samsung-captivate-for-atandt-preview/http://www.engadget.com/2010/06/22/exclusive-samsung-captivate-for-atandt-preview/Jun 22nd 2010 4:13PMhttp://www.engadget.com/2010/06/22/exclusive-samsung-captivate-for-atandt-preview/http://www.engadget.com/2010/06/22/exclusive-samsung-captivate-for-atandt-preview/
Holy WHOA!!1~!

AT&T is delivering an Android Phone that ISN'T nerfed?! What will Jobsy say?]]>Jun 22nd 2010 4:55PMhttp://www.engadget.com/2010/06/22/exclusive-samsung-captivate-for-atandt-preview/http://www.engadget.com/2010/06/22/exclusive-samsung-captivate-for-atandt-preview/Jun 22nd 2010 7:23PMhttp://www.engadget.com/2010/06/22/exclusive-samsung-captivate-for-atandt-preview/http://www.engadget.com/2010/06/22/exclusive-samsung-captivate-for-atandt-preview/
At last somebody pointed out it's not a Android Phone! BUT BUT BUT I's NOT a Winmo phone either. It's running Samsung's "bada" OS.......

JS, I cannot believe nobody know about this.]]>Jun 22nd 2010 8:03PMhttp://www.engadget.com/2010/06/22/exclusive-samsung-captivate-for-atandt-preview/http://www.engadget.com/2010/06/22/exclusive-samsung-captivate-for-atandt-preview/Jun 22nd 2010 10:22PMhttp://www.engadget.com/2010/06/22/exclusive-samsung-captivate-for-atandt-preview/http://www.engadget.com/2010/06/22/exclusive-samsung-captivate-for-atandt-preview/
Huh? Mind explaining to the class why there's an Android Market icon clearly displayed on the home screen then?

This is not Bada.]]>Jun 23rd 2010 6:53AMhttp://www.engadget.com/2010/06/22/exclusive-samsung-captivate-for-atandt-preview/http://www.engadget.com/2010/06/22/exclusive-samsung-captivate-for-atandt-preview/Jun 22nd 2010 11:19AMhttp://www.engadget.com/2010/06/22/exclusive-samsung-captivate-for-atandt-preview/http://www.engadget.com/2010/06/22/exclusive-samsung-captivate-for-atandt-preview/Jun 22nd 2010 11:48AMhttp://www.engadget.com/2010/06/22/exclusive-samsung-captivate-for-atandt-preview/http://www.engadget.com/2010/06/22/exclusive-samsung-captivate-for-atandt-preview/Jun 22nd 2010 12:06PMhttp://www.engadget.com/2010/06/22/exclusive-samsung-captivate-for-atandt-preview/http://www.engadget.com/2010/06/22/exclusive-samsung-captivate-for-atandt-preview/
Hello, my next phone.]]>Jun 22nd 2010 12:09PMhttp://www.engadget.com/2010/06/22/exclusive-samsung-captivate-for-atandt-preview/http://www.engadget.com/2010/06/22/exclusive-samsung-captivate-for-atandt-preview/Jun 22nd 2010 4:23PMhttp://www.engadget.com/2010/06/22/exclusive-samsung-captivate-for-atandt-preview/http://www.engadget.com/2010/06/22/exclusive-samsung-captivate-for-atandt-preview/
I have to say Samsung's Bird can fly, sorry Qual but Sammy owns this generation.

It would be interesting to Bench Mark the Bird vs A4. They do share the same mother rite.]]>Jun 22nd 2010 11:20AMhttp://www.engadget.com/2010/06/22/exclusive-samsung-captivate-for-atandt-preview/http://www.engadget.com/2010/06/22/exclusive-samsung-captivate-for-atandt-preview/Jun 22nd 2010 11:29AMhttp://www.engadget.com/2010/06/22/exclusive-samsung-captivate-for-atandt-preview/http://www.engadget.com/2010/06/22/exclusive-samsung-captivate-for-atandt-preview/
My guess here is that the OMAP is faster than all three of those. Look at the score the Droid X gets on Quadrant. Easily faster than the Galaxy S and kills the Snapdragon based phones (Desire, Nexus and Incredible).
Time will tell but I would put money on the OMAP 3640 in the Droid X and Droid 2.]]>Jun 22nd 2010 11:58AMhttp://www.engadget.com/2010/06/22/exclusive-samsung-captivate-for-atandt-preview/http://www.engadget.com/2010/06/22/exclusive-samsung-captivate-for-atandt-preview/
The Cortex A8 in the OMAP appears to be faster than the A4 or Hummingbird but the latter chips have better GPUs than the OMAP (SGX535 and SGX540 respectively).]]>Jun 22nd 2010 12:02PMhttp://www.engadget.com/2010/06/22/exclusive-samsung-captivate-for-atandt-preview/http://www.engadget.com/2010/06/22/exclusive-samsung-captivate-for-atandt-preview/
Are you guys serious, OMAP's better? i must have been living under a rock, behind all the bitter touch wiz i was falling for the Bird.. but looks like i better take a closer look at the new Droids.

I gotta feeling things are just starting, the mobile power wars just went neculear.

But id have to say, the Birds GPU is so far the best. Sammy!]]>Jun 22nd 2010 12:08PMhttp://www.engadget.com/2010/06/22/exclusive-samsung-captivate-for-atandt-preview/http://www.engadget.com/2010/06/22/exclusive-samsung-captivate-for-atandt-preview/
Check out the scores. http://picasaweb.google.com/MFUntch2/MotoDroid#5480633964195182082

The hummingbird is way better than what we have seen with the slower OMAP and Snapdragon SoC but this 1ghz OMAP is blazing fast. The SGX535 and 540 are impressive but until Android can offload to the GPU like Symbian^3 can, they do not not that much of a difference in general use.]]>Jun 22nd 2010 12:36PMhttp://www.engadget.com/2010/06/22/exclusive-samsung-captivate-for-atandt-preview/http://www.engadget.com/2010/06/22/exclusive-samsung-captivate-for-atandt-preview/
When comparing benchmarks, you're comparing performance of the SoC. This includes the memory interface, on-chip bus, GPU, etc.]]>Jun 22nd 2010 12:59PMhttp://www.engadget.com/2010/06/22/exclusive-samsung-captivate-for-atandt-preview/http://www.engadget.com/2010/06/22/exclusive-samsung-captivate-for-atandt-preview/TI Omap is the best, it will be very interesting to see there new generation of Omap 4 with PowerVR SGX545's come out later on this year. ]]>Jun 22nd 2010 1:07PMhttp://www.engadget.com/2010/06/22/exclusive-samsung-captivate-for-atandt-preview/http://www.engadget.com/2010/06/22/exclusive-samsung-captivate-for-atandt-preview/
Wow, holy cow thats insane.. but look at the 2.2 Nexus almost matches the Droids 2.2, either Google found some magic codes or we'll all paying for undercoded hardware, you're rite all this 1Ghz talk falls apart without the OS grilling the GPU for acceleration but if 2.2 makes over 100% difference imagine what Gingerbread would be like.

But than again Galaxy S on 2.2 would come out top as well, theres alot more to the software side than i thought. I dont think they where ready for the mass 1Ghz attack, its resulted in inefficient results.
]]>Jun 22nd 2010 1:18PMhttp://www.engadget.com/2010/06/22/exclusive-samsung-captivate-for-atandt-preview/http://www.engadget.com/2010/06/22/exclusive-samsung-captivate-for-atandt-preview/
this Shadow score was with experimental Froyo:)]]>Jun 22nd 2010 1:31PMhttp://www.engadget.com/2010/06/22/exclusive-samsung-captivate-for-atandt-preview/http://www.engadget.com/2010/06/22/exclusive-samsung-captivate-for-atandt-preview/
Source? It reads it right from Quadrant that these are pre 2.1. It reads that right from the kernel.

Hummingbird is a SoC just like the OMAP, A4 and Snapdragon

http://alienbabeltech.com/main/wp-content/uploads/2010/04/Cellphonehardwarecompari1.png]]>Jun 22nd 2010 1:51PMhttp://www.engadget.com/2010/06/22/exclusive-samsung-captivate-for-atandt-preview/http://www.engadget.com/2010/06/22/exclusive-samsung-captivate-for-atandt-preview/Jun 22nd 2010 2:22PMhttp://www.engadget.com/2010/06/22/exclusive-samsung-captivate-for-atandt-preview/http://www.engadget.com/2010/06/22/exclusive-samsung-captivate-for-atandt-preview/
BWAHAHAHAA NOOOO

Your benchmark is comparing oranges to apples. The galaxy s is running 2.1 and your droid is running 2.2. Version 2.2 has JIT enabled which improves speed by at least 2x. Galaxy S will get updated to 2.2 later.]]>Jun 22nd 2010 3:27PMhttp://www.engadget.com/2010/06/22/exclusive-samsung-captivate-for-atandt-preview/http://www.engadget.com/2010/06/22/exclusive-samsung-captivate-for-atandt-preview/
If you read you will see we are actually comparing the Droid X to the Galaxy S. By Droid is on there because i was benchmarking it.]]>Jun 22nd 2010 4:26PMhttp://www.engadget.com/2010/06/22/exclusive-samsung-captivate-for-atandt-preview/http://www.engadget.com/2010/06/22/exclusive-samsung-captivate-for-atandt-preview/Jun 22nd 2010 11:22AMhttp://www.engadget.com/2010/06/22/exclusive-samsung-captivate-for-atandt-preview/http://www.engadget.com/2010/06/22/exclusive-samsung-captivate-for-atandt-preview/Yes. I called and asked that specifically.]]>Jun 22nd 2010 11:36AMhttp://www.engadget.com/2010/06/22/exclusive-samsung-captivate-for-atandt-preview/http://www.engadget.com/2010/06/22/exclusive-samsung-captivate-for-atandt-preview/
Sounded like if you sign a new contract, which this will require, you're no longer a grandfather. No?]]>Jun 22nd 2010 11:38AMhttp://www.engadget.com/2010/06/22/exclusive-samsung-captivate-for-atandt-preview/http://www.engadget.com/2010/06/22/exclusive-samsung-captivate-for-atandt-preview/
If you're upgraded from your iPhone line then yes you can still keep the plan. Open a new line then it's a no go.]]>Jun 22nd 2010 11:57AMhttp://www.engadget.com/2010/06/22/exclusive-samsung-captivate-for-atandt-preview/http://www.engadget.com/2010/06/22/exclusive-samsung-captivate-for-atandt-preview/
They will start gently at first, then by next year simply announce there's no more unlimited, grandfathered or otherwise.

The technique is to do it in phases so to prevent the roar of complaints. Bit by bit, by January next year everyone will be used to the concept that AT&T does not have unlimited data plans, so when they get rid of the grandfathered unlimiteds, the your complaints won't matter.

It's like a business changing its name, like Datsun to Nissan. They just did it over time until Datsun was no more. AT&T will get rid of unlimiteds in phases until they no longer exist. After all, your contract with gives AT&T to change its plan any time they want, for any reason, no reason or even unfair reason.

Sorry AT&T unlimited data people, there is no such thing as a grandfathered data plan and you have no right to it.]]>Jun 22nd 2010 8:28PMhttp://www.engadget.com/2010/06/22/exclusive-samsung-captivate-for-atandt-preview/http://www.engadget.com/2010/06/22/exclusive-samsung-captivate-for-atandt-preview/Jun 22nd 2010 11:22AMhttp://www.engadget.com/2010/06/22/exclusive-samsung-captivate-for-atandt-preview/http://www.engadget.com/2010/06/22/exclusive-samsung-captivate-for-atandt-preview/
I should hope not, they're supposed to be the first to have a device.

http://www.crn.com/software/222900777]]>Jun 22nd 2010 11:50AMhttp://www.engadget.com/2010/06/22/exclusive-samsung-captivate-for-atandt-preview/http://www.engadget.com/2010/06/22/exclusive-samsung-captivate-for-atandt-preview/_]]>Jun 22nd 2010 11:23AMhttp://www.engadget.com/2010/06/22/exclusive-samsung-captivate-for-atandt-preview/http://www.engadget.com/2010/06/22/exclusive-samsung-captivate-for-atandt-preview/Jun 22nd 2010 11:23AMhttp://www.engadget.com/2010/06/22/exclusive-samsung-captivate-for-atandt-preview/http://www.engadget.com/2010/06/22/exclusive-samsung-captivate-for-atandt-preview/http://www.boygeniusreport.com/2010/06/22/galaxy-s-has-another-identity-chrisis-to-hit-t-mobile-as-vibrant-in-july/]]>Jun 22nd 2010 11:27AMhttp://www.engadget.com/2010/06/22/exclusive-samsung-captivate-for-atandt-preview/http://www.engadget.com/2010/06/22/exclusive-samsung-captivate-for-atandt-preview/
tmobile has plenty of android devices! i've been waiting for a halfway decent at&t android phone for a while... the backflip was such a junker compared to any other android device out. be happy you have something to choose from with 2.1 on it !]]>Jun 22nd 2010 11:40AMhttp://www.engadget.com/2010/06/22/exclusive-samsung-captivate-for-atandt-preview/http://www.engadget.com/2010/06/22/exclusive-samsung-captivate-for-atandt-preview/http://www.androidpolice.com/2010/06/22/samsung-continues-to-imitate-genghis-khan-expands-galaxy-s-to-t-mobile/?utm_source=feedburner&utm_medium=feed&utm_campaign=Feed:+AndroidPolice+(Android+News,+Reviews,+Applications,+Games,+Phones,+Devices,+Tips,+Hacks,+Videos,+Podcasts+-+Android+Police)]]>Jun 22nd 2010 12:54PMhttp://www.engadget.com/2010/06/22/exclusive-samsung-captivate-for-atandt-preview/http://www.engadget.com/2010/06/22/exclusive-samsung-captivate-for-atandt-preview/Jun 22nd 2010 11:24AMhttp://www.engadget.com/2010/06/22/exclusive-samsung-captivate-for-atandt-preview/http://www.engadget.com/2010/06/22/exclusive-samsung-captivate-for-atandt-preview/Jun 22nd 2010 11:24AM