By now you should know that I love the AT&T Captivate. We’ve unboxed, looked at startup shutdown animations, looked at camera performance and reviewed & benchmarked the device, so what next? Well a few things were brought to my attention that were missing from the review, so I made time to make another video that highlights these things:
The main thing I forgot to cover in the review was the different text input options available on the Captivate (and all Galaxy S phones). Not only are two, standard qwerty keyboards available (I prefer the Samsung keyboard over the Anroid one), but there are some cool features of the Samsung keyboard itself:
It has an option to enter text via the older “numpad” method:
As well as the ability to use “handwriting” to enter letters/numbers/symbols into the device. You can use Handwriting Box 1, which seperates the input area into 4 quadrants; 2 for letters, one for numbers and one for symbols:
And Handwriting Box 2, in which the entire input area is for letters:
Finally, the last text input method that’s available is Swype. Instead of individually pressing each letter, Swype allows you to slide your finger across each letter in the word you want to spell, and it’s surprisingly accurate.
I also wanted to show the true abilities of AllShare, an app that let’s you stream media in a variety of ways. In my original review the video file that I streamed off of my PC was the culprit for why the quality wasn’t that great on the Captivate. I retested again using a high-quality source file and it looked beautiful on the phone:
The last thing I skipped over in the review was showing off the browser and more importantly the awesome scroll speed that the 1GHz, Hummingbird CPU is capable of. Even though the Captivate lost to the Nexus One in every CPU benchmark, I would expect those results to change once the phone receives its Froyo update.
So thats all for now kids, thanks for reading!
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