Android Phone
I made a pretty crazy move in my phone technology the other day by switching to an android phone. I went and picked up the Samsung Captivate for At&t. The phone belongs to the Galaxy S series, so it’s running on android and has a similar design to the rest of the Galaxy S family.
The hardware on the phone is great, It has a huge screen and a very snappy processor and gpu. You can really see the speed of the unit when you launch applications and shift from one task to another. The video display is very clear and even has auto-brightness. The speakers on the phone are real good too. I can listen to music as if I had a small desk radio.
The software is the most interesting part, mainly because it runs android. Upon switching the phone on you immediately get to take advantage of all of the google goodies provided. Such as , google search, voice google search, google chat, full google account phone integration and many more. The user interaction or navigation is very similar to that of most smart-phones now a days. Theres the touch-screen and screen-tabs that you will find on most phones now.
I really am enjoying how android handles the picture galleries and widgets. The picture galleries show up in a very interactive way and pick up on the motion of the phone to angle the picture collections. The auto-organization is very nice also. The widgets allow for updates and previews of live data such as flight-fares and twitter updates. Most apps that work off live data come with a widget. This widget can be placed on any screen also.
The Android Market place is very nice because of the availability and number of applications. Alot of really good applications are even free. One application that I really liked was the a file manager app called Astro File Manager. This application allows you to use a nice ui to navigate through the directories on your phone and add or remove files. One great feature was the ability to transfer files through the network on-to my phone via the file manager. All of this is possible because the phone is linux based.
I could talk about this phone forever because there is just so much potential and future for the type of phone, but I have to stop somewhere. The phone is definitely a learning experience and great user experience.

Main Home Page

Time widget

A second page loaded with apps and widgets.

The music player.

The official twitter app for android.

Watching a perfume video on the phone.

Photos angle when you tilt the phone.

Photos & videos auto-organize.

Multi-Selecting Photos for sharing or other actions


Transferring files from the home computer to the phone.







































Rafael