[Q] What's next? Life after the Captivate...

bobbylx · Jan 30, 2012

Had my Captivate since a week or so after release. Can't say that I love ATT, but had them a long time now and get a nice corporate discount. Also, one of the main reasons I stick with ATT is the fact that they use SIM cards, I like to be able to swap phones any time I like.

As for upgrades, I'm due in June so hopefully there will be something new and flashy out around that time, but I'm not in any rush.

aeodan · Jan 31, 2012

I honestly love my Captivate too much to give it up.
I've had it since release and haven't had a problem with it outside the speaker problem that was easy to fix. I don't plan on moving for another year or so <3

Ozark_8125 · Jan 31, 2012

I had an iPhone 3GS for a couple years (begrudgingly..) after HTC tilt/tilt2... but missed y'all on xda so bought a captivate after my wife got a 4s for Christmas and I thought it wasn't worth an upgrade. Then comparing the 3gs to the cappy - it was easy to ditch the 3gs and go android. Love the meat to bun ratio on that beautiful screen. I've never been in a contract, but will probably give the S3 a good look when it comes out - or the sony. Just as a side note - I bought my wife the apple care plan when I got her phone - is there anything similar with the android phones on ATT? The ATT plan didn't look like a good deal compared to apple care. Squaretrade looked like it had a lot of positive reviews online.

jgr208 · Jan 31, 2012

I might get the atrix 2. Since I don't like to fool around with my phone too much and want one with a car dock.

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scottcwhite · Jan 31, 2012

I want the note

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rquiett · Jan 31, 2012

Ozark_8125 said:
I had an iPhone 3GS for a couple years (begrudgingly..) after HTC tilt/tilt2... but missed y'all on xda so bought a captivate after my wife got a 4s for Christmas and I thought it wasn't worth an upgrade. Then comparing the 3gs to the cappy - it was easy to ditch the 3gs and go android. Love the meat to bun ratio on that beautiful screen. I've never been in a contract, but will probably give the S3 a good look when it comes out - or the sony. Just as a side note - I bought my wife the apple care plan when I got her phone - is there anything similar with the android phones on ATT? The ATT plan didn't look like a good deal compared to apple care. Squaretrade looked like it had a lot of positive reviews online.

Square trade used to be really good. Now it seems like putting a claim in with them is like pulling teeth. that's just my two cents from having 3 of their warranties. The first two back a few years ago went good. Last one they supposedly tested device and came back working when it did not at all.

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viny2cool · Jan 31, 2012

Galaxy nexus on ATT for google support...or GS3 for its awesomeness...

cbasse · Jan 31, 2012

So, looks like my decision may be easier than I thought. Just called at&t and found that I still have an early term charge of $145. So, unless I can wait until July or so to make a move, I'll probably be going with whatever the top phone is through at&t.

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bbtiger · Jan 31, 2012

MDMonster said:
I personally think the Galaxy Note would be heavenly . I don't use my cappy as a phone but more as a pmp (personal media player) and think a 5" pmp would be heaven.

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Yeah, I love my cappy as a pmp. It just sounds amazing!!! (the best pmp on the market afaik) if you rooted and rockboxed it. I compared the mp3 on a friend's SGSII and my cappy with Voodoo sound, guess which one I like (Samsung just dropped the ball on the SGSII, IMOH)? I always came back to my cappy just because of the Voodoo sound

.

I'm waiting for the SGS3 and see if Samsung will use a better DAC chip as it used Wolfson's WM8994 DAC in the cappy.

Regardless of what I'll be getting next for my phone, I just keep my cappy as my PMP of choice

Gun Bunny · Jan 31, 2012

My contract is up in June, by then the Sony Ion will be out (maybe with ICS), it looks like a very nice phone.
Love my cappy, but might have to jump ship and switch brands.

rmewpm · Jan 31, 2012

I plan on using my cappy till the great devs on this site stop supporting it or it dies

mike21pr · Jan 31, 2012

rmewpm said:
I plan on using my cappy till the great devs on this site stop supporting it or it dies

I wish I was that strong lol

Im planning on getting the Lumia 900 or waiting till Q4 for the Windows Phone 8 lineup

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capocaccia · Jan 31, 2012

scottcwhite said:
I want the note

Sent from my Captivate running ICS 4.0 with ICS NOVA launcher

I was waiting out for that too but at $300 AT&T can go F^*K themselves. Thats an insane price. Especially when its still a gingerbread phone.

mike21pr said:
I wish I was that strong lol

Im planning on getting the Lumia 900 or waiting till Q4 for the Windows Phone 8 lineup

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Im planning on taking a good look at the Lumia 900 as well. The only thing that makes me hesitate is the windows app store sucks and I cant stand ATT bloatware taking up my phone so having useless tiles like ATT U Verse would be really annoying to me.

mike21pr · Jan 31, 2012

capocaccia said:
I was waiting out for that too but at $300 AT&T can go F^*K themselves. Thats an insane price. Especially when its still a gingerbread phone.

Im planning on taking a good look at the Lumia 900 as well. The only thing that makes me hesitate is the windows app store sucks and I cant stand ATT bloatware taking up my phone so having useless tiles like ATT U Verse would be really annoying to me.

windows phone lets u uninstall all bloatware unlike android.

gotta agree a bit about the marketplace, its growing quick though

***BTW, I wouldnt touch a ATT Galaxy Note with a 10 foot pole... Snapdragon dual cores are horrible compared to exynos (or any other while at it)

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Cor-master · Feb 1, 2012

cbasse said:
After getting somewhat burned by the Captivate, is anyone hesitant to get another Samsung phone? Also, if you're waiting for the SGS3, are you concerned at all about getting it right after launch without letting it get "tested" in the marketplace first? I mean, we know what it felt like to be early-adopters with the Captivate and having the accompanying headaches that came as a result... Not sure I'm in a hurry to be in that position again (actually, I just got the Asus Transformer Prime and I'm now having a new set of GPS issues)...

Also, I suppose we'll have to just wait and see, but has anyone heard rumors of any Samsung-killers being announced next month?

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I know I'm not worried about getting burned by Samsung. In the age of cheap manufacturing all phones have issues, but my captive is my 4th straight Samsung and I've seemed to notice they hold up better than most other phones. That being said I'm not worried about a gs3.

Still think quad core phones are completely unnecessary
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Ozark_8125 · Feb 2, 2012

rquiett said:
Square trade used to be really good. Now it seems like putting a claim in with them is like pulling teeth. that's just my two cents from having 3 of their warranties.

That's good to know. Are there any other options to look at? How about if you go buy your phone from an ATT store
?

scottcwhite · Feb 2, 2012

Actually I'm quite happy with my cappy. Never had any issues, I'm running the same operating system available currently only on the Gnex. I get a good 15 hours of heavy use from the battery and my job pays for the bill. Other than not having a front facing camera there is not really any other phone on the market that does something mine doesn't. Maybe they do it a tad faster but hell, if I need that much speed I use my home computer. This is in the end still a phone. And still way faster than driving around looking for a pay phone that works.

Yes I remember those days

Sent from my Captivate running ICS 4.0 with ICS NOVA launcher

chyckyn · Feb 2, 2012

mike21pr said:
windows phone lets u uninstall all bloatware unlike android.

gotta agree a bit about the marketplace, its growing quick though

***BTW, I wouldnt touch a ATT Galaxy Note with a 10 foot pole... Snapdragon dual cores are horrible compared to exynos (or any other while at it)

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Thats true about the windows phone, to me they are social networking oriented phones cause of the FB and messenger integration..

Lol Neither that Note, the Skyrocket or the upcoming Skyrocket HD.. It's rediculos to sacrifice performance for faster internet speeds, most people dont consider that not every new item on the market is better am sticking with the Exynos and the SAMOLED.. Even after being out soo long the GSII is still on top..

Put ICS from team ICS on your cappy and it runs like a dream..

J M L · Feb 3, 2012

chyckyn said:
Put ICS from team ICS on your cappy and it runs like a dream..

Indeed. I was really looking forward to my subsidized upgrade, which will be available at the end of March, but with Ice Cream Sandwhich on my phone, I really don't care anymore. Most of the Gingerbread ROMs weren't very stable for me, but they were so far beyond Froyo in capabilities, that I just stuck it out and rebooted every day or so. That wore on me, and I so wanted an upgrade.

KK4 was pretty good, but wow is ICS (CM9/Teamhacksung build 15, at the moment) so far beyond KK4 in speed and stability, that I won't consider going back. I am very impressed with Google and Cyanogen for making an upgrade which made old hardware run better.

I was talking to my brother, and I said, "With ICS I don't feel like upgrading anymore," and he said, "Funny, putting iOS5 on my 3GS convinced me to buy a 4S."

My plan for now is to keep my Captivate (crappy GPS and all) until a proper Google phone is available on AT&T.

jmtheiss · Feb 3, 2012

Honestly, I think that I'll be with this Captivate until it dies.

I'm up for an upgrade somewhere around November, but I'm happy with how it works, and even if development dies down, I think I'll save my upgrade until a phone that really works for me comes around. I've been burned once by jumping to a new phone before a good one was available (I'm looking at you, Samsung Jack...), and the Captivate has run like a champ through everything I've put it through.

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