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If you buy through a BGR link, we may earn an affiliate commission, helping support our expert product labs. Yay open source! Samsung has released the source code for the SGH-I897, better known as ...
The Samsung i897 Captivate is going on sale next Sunday, July 18 and it will cost 199.99 US dollars on a two year contract. Looks aside, the Captivate is an exact duplicate of the Samsung I9000 ...
The Samsung Captivate is AT&T’s first high end, or rather superphone running Android. The carrier was late to the Android game, and conspiracy theorists posited that Apple’s iPhone stranglehold had ...
The Captivate Glide runs Android 2.3.4 Gingerbread with Samsung's TouchWiz. The system software is identical to that which is found on the Samsung Galaxy S II, and Galaxy S II Skyrocket.
We do have the full model numbers — Samsung Captivate (i897) and Samsung Eternity II (a597) — but we’ll keep digging for more information on those. Jonathan S. Geller founded Boy Genius ...
Wikipedia page says "On January 10th 2012, AT&T provided an update to Gingerbread (2.3.5) to the owners of the Captivate (SGH-I897). The update was possible through an manual update using Kies Mini." ...
Samsung has released an Android 2.2 update and the full instructions plus the download are on the other end of the source link below. Hopefully it isn't too frostbitten after all this time.
T-Mobile had been widely pegged as Samsung's launch partner for the Galaxy S in the States, but AT&T stole its thunder this morning by announcing the Captivate featuring a 4-inch Super AMOLED ...
Learn more. If you're the owner of a Samsung Captivate (SGH-i896, SGH-i897), and you love to flash, but fear the brick, fear not my comrades. AdamOutler, XDA Recognized Developer, has created a ...
The Samsung Captivate has a dazzling display and a bevy of multimedia and social networking features. The Captivate is amazingly thin and lightweight. The European Galaxy S looks quite similar to ...
Phone Scoop takes the AT&T version of the Samsung Galaxy S — the Captivate — for a spin to see how well it performs. The display and battery life are amazing. How do the rest of the features ...
AT&T’s version of the Galaxy S, the Samsung Captivate ($200 with a two-year contract, as of July 12, 2010), is by far AT&T’s best Android offering. But Samsung’s TouchWiz interface isn’t ...