- Feb 22, 2008
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I've had my captivate since July 18th, so I believe my month to return the phone is almost up. I have been waiting FOREVER for a good ATT android phone (didnt wanna spend 600 on a nexus one) so when i saw this i jumped on it. Right off the bat i have had trouble with this phone, and I have been waiting for fixes to come out, but given samsung's track record I dont have much hope.
Some of my gripes are:
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GPS - completely broken. Samsung has known about this problem for AT LEAST 3 months and there still isnt a fix. (an ACTUAL fix, not that crap that 1 out of 100 people claim that works)
BATTERY - Im a little biased coming from a BB, but almost everyday my battery is completely drained in about 8 hours. As a result i bought a car charger and a AC charger for almost every place i can charge it if i get the chance (work, school, etc.)
DATA - I have to battery pull multiple times a day because sometimes my data just shuts off. Once it cuts out ive waited to see if it will come back once i go somewhere else, but it doesn't until i pull the battery.
BATTERY PULLS - I feel like im constantly doing this for shit not working right - WTF - texts wont send, cant place or recieve calls, etc.
FRONT BUTTONS - Terrible - sometimes ill sit there and press it a million times and it takes forever to pick up that my finger is on top of the button. Either that or its just lagging and will pick up my 10 presses all at once.
LAG and PERFORMANCE - For the most powerful android phone it sure doesn't seem like it. When i press the unlock button i can swipe my unlock pattern sometimes 3-4 times before it picks up my touch. I do like that ive been playing FF7 on a PSX emulator without any hiccups - but id take better performance all around then just good graphic performance.
CAMERA- No LED flash and auto focus sucks. I can honestly say my BB 9700 took better pictures. Why do i have to touch where i want the camera to focus every time? My bb took awesome shots at almost every range (it would focus in and out and then set on the right spot) why cant my captivate do this?
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Theres probably more things than i can think of in this rant, but these are just some.
I really dont know if i should wait it out to see if these problems get worked out or if i should jump ship for now. I figured since this would be such a popular device that even if samsing neglected it, modders would keep it running smoothly, but some of these might be hardware related. I honestly love everything else about it and android, i just wish i didnt have to deal with these problems. Now i have to decide if I should:
Return the captivate and buy the iphone4 and then either:
-sell it immediately and buy a nexus one
-use the iphone for a while and either wait for captivate issues to resolve and sell the iphone for it or a better android phone that comes out for AT&T
I really would like to have an android phone, but i figure if i use the iphone4 for a few months until theres a good android phone out, the iphone has the highest resale value, and i wouldnt be losing (probably making) any money in the process. What do you guys think?
Some of my gripes are:
---------------------------------------------------------------
GPS - completely broken. Samsung has known about this problem for AT LEAST 3 months and there still isnt a fix. (an ACTUAL fix, not that crap that 1 out of 100 people claim that works)
BATTERY - Im a little biased coming from a BB, but almost everyday my battery is completely drained in about 8 hours. As a result i bought a car charger and a AC charger for almost every place i can charge it if i get the chance (work, school, etc.)
DATA - I have to battery pull multiple times a day because sometimes my data just shuts off. Once it cuts out ive waited to see if it will come back once i go somewhere else, but it doesn't until i pull the battery.
BATTERY PULLS - I feel like im constantly doing this for shit not working right - WTF - texts wont send, cant place or recieve calls, etc.
FRONT BUTTONS - Terrible - sometimes ill sit there and press it a million times and it takes forever to pick up that my finger is on top of the button. Either that or its just lagging and will pick up my 10 presses all at once.
LAG and PERFORMANCE - For the most powerful android phone it sure doesn't seem like it. When i press the unlock button i can swipe my unlock pattern sometimes 3-4 times before it picks up my touch. I do like that ive been playing FF7 on a PSX emulator without any hiccups - but id take better performance all around then just good graphic performance.
CAMERA- No LED flash and auto focus sucks. I can honestly say my BB 9700 took better pictures. Why do i have to touch where i want the camera to focus every time? My bb took awesome shots at almost every range (it would focus in and out and then set on the right spot) why cant my captivate do this?
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Theres probably more things than i can think of in this rant, but these are just some.
I really dont know if i should wait it out to see if these problems get worked out or if i should jump ship for now. I figured since this would be such a popular device that even if samsing neglected it, modders would keep it running smoothly, but some of these might be hardware related. I honestly love everything else about it and android, i just wish i didnt have to deal with these problems. Now i have to decide if I should:
Return the captivate and buy the iphone4 and then either:
-sell it immediately and buy a nexus one
-use the iphone for a while and either wait for captivate issues to resolve and sell the iphone for it or a better android phone that comes out for AT&T
I really would like to have an android phone, but i figure if i use the iphone4 for a few months until theres a good android phone out, the iphone has the highest resale value, and i wouldnt be losing (probably making) any money in the process. What do you guys think?
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