Developers anxious for the full open source coding of the Samsung Captivate were joyous today as they received the following message in their inboxes:

Dear _____________,

You can download the source code of SGH-I897 on this site in Mobile Category, SGH-I897 model.

Thank you.

Short, sweet, and to the point. This is excellent news for those intrepid ROM developers already hard at work at opening the system and trying to add and/or fix functionality in the device. One little quirk in particular seems to be on many developers’ minds in the “mimocan external SD card lag” issue. Solving this problem (where the internal Samsung memory does not properly handle application data) would boost the already fairly impressive Quadrant scores of the device to an awesome 1750. With Android 2.2 installed with a mimocan fix, you could probably expect somewhere between 2000 to 3000, an impressive feat.

If you’re a developer, hop to it! We’re all anxious to see what beautiful creations you guys can cook up for these powerful devices.

[via briefmobile.com]

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