The Android You're Looking For: Samsung Captivate Launches on AT&T

Vibrant variant and now comes Competition is hotting up in the Android space, where Samsung is taking on HTC for high-end handset supremacy with its Galaxy S line of Google-ized smartphones. Last week, T-Mobile rolled out its Vibrant variant and now comes Samsung's Captivate for AT&T, which Bonnie Cha from CNet calls "AT&T's most powerful and feature-rich Android device."

As with other handsets from the Galaxy S line, the 3G-enabled Captivate is powered by the Android 2.1 operating system and features a 1 GHz Samsung Hummingbird processor and 4-inch Super AMOLED touchscreen display (with 480 x 800-pixel resolution). In Ginny Miles' review over at PC World, she explains what Super AMOLED is all about:

Super AMOLED technology puts touch sensors on the display itself, as opposed to creating a separate layer (which Samsung's old AMOLED displays had), making it the thinnest display technology on the market. Super AMOLED is fantastic--you really have to see it in person. Colors burst out of the display, and animations appear lively and smooth.

To show off what a graphics powerhouse the Captivate is, check out this benchmarking video from Android Central (where the Captivate screen definitely shines in comparison to the Evo 4G, Droid X and now officially discontinued Nexus One):

Head on over to AmazonWireless, where you can pick up the Captivate for just $99.99 (for new contracts).

--Agen G.N. Schmitz

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