02/16/2011, Virgin Mobile USA has some good news for its Samsung Intercept owners – they carrier will be rolling out their Android 2.2 Froyo update sometime early this spring, which could point towards March 25 thereabouts according to whispers on the ground. This could very well be a loose release date, as some of us might actually end up waiting until a week after, but still, the calendar shouldn’t go pass […]

02/16/2011, Samsung certainly took their own sweet time to release the GPS fix for the Captivate over at AT&T, and it has taken a good seven months for the Android 2.2 Froyo update to arrive on this smartphone – only to have it pulled back with the source link to said update disappearing a short while after it was appeared. Was this due to AT&T not being prepared to make an […]

02/08/2011, Owners of the Samsung Captivate are more or less a dejected lot, since their smartphone is still stuck on Android 2.1 Eclair officially, with no word of a Froyo update coming their way anytime soon. Well, there might just be an extremely narrow window of hope for such an update to roll out in the future, since AT&T’s support page for the Captivate did explain on looking out for the […]

10/02/2010, Samsung Captivate owners might be itching to get hold of the Android 2.2 update for their device, and while AT&T hasn’t released the official update just yet, an unofficial Android 2.2 build for the Captivate has surfaced, and it seems to be feature-complete. Once the UCJ16 firmware is crammed into your phone, features such as mobile hotspot, Adobe Flash Player 10.1, user interface improvements, and some other improvements become available. […]

09/22/2010, Samsung’s Captivate smartphone has had problems with its GPS since the handset rolled out, but it seems that a fix for this problem has been announced and will be released within the next few weeks. Just what is the problem, you ask? Well, apparently all Galaxy S class smartphones feature GPS which will more often than not be miles off your actual spot, so hopefully this fix will be able […]

08/25/2010, If you’ve been thinking of picking up the Android-powered Samsung Captivate from AT&T but haven’t been able to muster the $200 needed to purchase the device from the carrier, perhaps Amazon’s latest deal might be of interest to you, since the online retailing giant is now offering the Captivate for $0.01 on a new two-year contract. Perhaps once you’ve managed to pick up the Captivate you’ll be able to break […]

08/11/2010, So the Droid Pro will be the fastest Android smartphone when it arrives, touting a 1.3GHz processor, but if you want to be right at the top of the food chain at the moment, you won’t go wrong with any 1GHz Snapdragon-powered smartphones. What about the Samsung Captivate, you ask? Well, a modder decided to overclock its processor to touch 1.2GHz from 1GHz, with the potential of touching 1.6GHz without […]

08/03/2010, Owners of the Samsung Vibrant or Captivate from T-Mobile and AT&T respectively might have noticed that the A-GPS on the device wasn’t functioning properly, and many users out there seem to have experienced the same issue. While there are certain workarounds to the situation at the moment, they aren’t ideal, and don’t really solve the issue. While there hasn’t been an official fix for it just yet, there is some […]

07/20/2010, We already know that AT&T is offering the Samsung Captivate for $199.99 on a two-year contract, but if you don’t feel like shelling out cash to get hold of the device, you might want to take note that the folks over at LetsTalk.com are currently offering the device for free if you agree to a two-year contract with a minimum $60 monthly service plan, including a data plan that starts at […]

07/08/2010, Folks who are looking forward to getting hold of the Samsung Captivate on AT&T should take note that the device will be hitting stores on July 18th, and will set you back a good $200 on contract. While AT&T hasn’t really offered any significant Android device before this, the Samsung Captivate will be an interesting challenge for Apple’s iPhone 4, as it’s feature rich enough to be a viable alternative […]

06/17/2010, AT&T seems to be warming up to Android-powered devices lately, and now the carrier has announced that its latest Android-powered device, the Samsung Captivate. With its 4-inch Super AMOLED touchscreen display and 5-megapixel camera, it’ll probably be able to give the iPhone 4 and HTC EVO 4G a good run for their money. AT&T wasn’t very specific as to when it will be arriving, only mentioning that it’s coming soon, […]