AT&T and Samsung Telecommunications America (Samsung Mobile), the No. 1 mobile phone provider in the U.S., today announced the upcoming availability of theSamsung Captivate, a Galaxy S smartphone. The Android 2.1-powered Samsung Captivate will bring users a fully integrated entertainment, messaging and social networking experience packaged in an alluring. SAMSUNG SGH-I897 Making the Smartphone Brilliant See brilliance on display. The Samsung Captivate with its 4-inch Super AMOLED display brings to life Hollywood blockbusters and your own 5.0MP pics like never before. A 1 GHz Samsung Hummingbird Application Processor and Samsung Social Hub, a feature that integrates the user’s social networking services, messages, personal and business email, calendars and contacts. 3.5-millimeter headphone jack and expandable memory for photos, videos and music, up to 16 GB. This combined with an on-board 16 GB of storage allows for up to 32 GB of capacity for music and video. The Captivate also includes AT&T Navigator, which offers voice-guided and visual turn-by-turn GPS driving directions with automatic reroute, full-color maps, and real-time traffic alerts and AT&T Family Map, which gives families the ability to track a child's location from a PC or cell phone and request location updates at any time.
| 2G Network | GSM 850 / 900 / 1800 / 1900 |
| 3G Network | HSDPA 850 / 1900 / 2100 |
| Announced | 2010, June |
| Status | Available. Released 2010, July |
| Dimensions | 122.4 x 64.2 x 9.9 mm |
| Weight | 118 g |
| Protection | Corning Gorilla Glass |
| - TouchWiz 3.0 UI | |
| Card slot | microSD, up to 32GB |
| Internal | 16GB storage, 512 MB RAM |
| WLAN | Wi-Fi 802.11 b/g/n; DLNA |
| Bluetooth | Yes, v3.0 with A2DP |
| USB | Yes, microUSB v2.0 |
| Primary | 5 MP, 2592 x 1944 pixels, autofocus |
| Features | Geo-tagging, touch focus, face and smile detection |
| Video | Yes, 720p@30fps |
| Secondary | No |
| OS | Android OS, v2.1 (Eclair), upgradable to v2.3 |
| Chipset | Hummingbird |
| CPU | 1 GHz Cortex-A8 |
| GPU | PowerVR SGX540 |
| Sensors | Accelerometer, proximity, compass |
| Stand-by | Up to 750 h (2G) / Up to 576 h (3G) |
| Talk time | Up to 13 h 30 min (2G) / Up to 6 h 30 min (3G) |
