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<blockquote data-quote="Dr. Tad Hussein Winslow" data-source="post: 1293272" data-attributes="member: 7123"><p>Funny you should ask. Week or two back, I had the Captivate for 3 days, before returning it in favor of iphone 4. Great concept, and will eventually be a great phone, but I never did so much cussing in all my life. It's not ready for prime time - lots of little bugs/problems/issues with it. Also, the biggest thing is this: the GPS receiver is a known problem in these phones (google gps captivate) - doesn't pick up the signal as strongly or quickly as Iphone and other Android phones. This was a deal-breaker for me after testing the GPS out since I hunt a lot - it worked - slowly/mostly/sortof, but did not inspire confidence. The other deal-breaker was the undeletable, fee-only bloatware apps on it (namely, AT&T Navigator). As a matter of principle, I won't tolerate monthly-fee-only, undeletable proprietary bloatware - bad bad combination. No reason on earth why you ought not to be able to delete.</p><p></p><p>But if you can get past the bloatware, it is in theory far far superior to iphone, and <em><strong>will be </strong></em>in practice, in time, when it's debugged and the GPS receiver fixed, and 2.2 OS available. I'd imagine within 6 months I'll be ready to try it again, except that I'll probably go Sprint/Epic 4. The swype keyboard just rocks out. The new world record for speed texting was set with a swype keyboard. Many other neat features too, most of which are better/more intuitive than iphone. YMMV.</p><p></p><p>Also, another thing: I happen to very much like the front-facing camera of the iphone, because I can take pics of myself making goofy faces easily and send them to my friends & family. Consequently, they hate the front-facing camera, of course. <img src="/images/smilies/smile.png" class="smilie" loading="lazy" alt=":)" title="Smile :)" data-shortname=":)" /> The flash for the camera is another good feature that the Captivate does not have for some very strange reason. Both these phone have identical or nearly-identical video and still-photo capabilities, except that the still pic quality of the Samsung seems slightly superior in terms of delivering true colors.</p></blockquote><p></p>
[QUOTE="Dr. Tad Hussein Winslow, post: 1293272, member: 7123"] Funny you should ask. Week or two back, I had the Captivate for 3 days, before returning it in favor of iphone 4. Great concept, and will eventually be a great phone, but I never did so much cussing in all my life. It's not ready for prime time - lots of little bugs/problems/issues with it. Also, the biggest thing is this: the GPS receiver is a known problem in these phones (google gps captivate) - doesn't pick up the signal as strongly or quickly as Iphone and other Android phones. This was a deal-breaker for me after testing the GPS out since I hunt a lot - it worked - slowly/mostly/sortof, but did not inspire confidence. The other deal-breaker was the undeletable, fee-only bloatware apps on it (namely, AT&T Navigator). As a matter of principle, I won't tolerate monthly-fee-only, undeletable proprietary bloatware - bad bad combination. No reason on earth why you ought not to be able to delete. But if you can get past the bloatware, it is in theory far far superior to iphone, and [I][B]will be [/B][/I]in practice, in time, when it's debugged and the GPS receiver fixed, and 2.2 OS available. I'd imagine within 6 months I'll be ready to try it again, except that I'll probably go Sprint/Epic 4. The swype keyboard just rocks out. The new world record for speed texting was set with a swype keyboard. Many other neat features too, most of which are better/more intuitive than iphone. YMMV. Also, another thing: I happen to very much like the front-facing camera of the iphone, because I can take pics of myself making goofy faces easily and send them to my friends & family. Consequently, they hate the front-facing camera, of course. :) The flash for the camera is another good feature that the Captivate does not have for some very strange reason. Both these phone have identical or nearly-identical video and still-photo capabilities, except that the still pic quality of the Samsung seems slightly superior in terms of delivering true colors. [/QUOTE]
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