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[Captivate Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] viny2cool:
Galaxy nexus on ATT for google support...or GS3 for its awesomeness...
[Captivate Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] cbasse:
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.
[Captivate Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] bbtiger:
;) 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:p.

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:)
[Captivate Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] Gun Bunny:
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. :D
[Captivate Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] rmewpm:
I plan on using my cappy till the great devs on this site stop supporting it or it dies
[Captivate Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] mike21pr:
I wish I was that strong lol

Im planning on getting the Lumia 900 or waiting till Q4 for the Windows Phone 8 lineup
[Captivate Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] capocaccia:
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.
[Captivate Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] mike21pr:
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)
[Captivate Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] Cor-master:
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
[Captivate Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] Ozark_8125:
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

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[Captivate Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] scottcwhite:
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
[Captivate Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] chyckyn:
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..
[Captivate Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] J M L:
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.
[Captivate Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] jmtheiss:
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.
[Captivate Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] Cor-master:
Make no mistake if AT&T gets the Galaxy Nexus I'm grabbing one regardless of whats out thats better or not. I said it before and I'll say it again, quad cores are unnecessary, Dual-cores are debatable, but how necessary are they now that ICS apparently runs better on older hardware? Honestly I have yet to see a game that won't run on our captivates, and more cores is just going to equal more battery consumption. My buddy is on verizon and just went from an HTC droid incredible to a Motorola Droid bionic and its a dual-core 1GB RAM phone with gingerbread, and the speed is ridiculous on the phone, zero lag, so yeah why do we need quad cores?

Either way support from google is worth having somewhat "dated" hardware. As much fun as it has been flashing roms and such, I'd like a phone I could not mess with at all and be happy next, and with an official google phone you're getting that. I like my phone alot now, but if you stayed on stock you probably hate it. The froyo update made it even laggier and buggier, the RFS file system, the horrid GPS, the ridiculous amounts of bloatware all over the device, etc, its just a crappy phone if you leave it alone IMO, and it shipped from the getgo with an outdated OS, was 7 months late on Froyo, a year and 2 months late on gingerbread , and if you stay stock your not getting ICS... Didn't Samsung tout the Galaxy S as an iPhone killer? Well the 3 year old 3GS is still getting upates, the Galaxy S got cut off after 18 months!

Custom roms are great, and I love them, but my main concern is cheap manufacturing and how I have not been able to make it through a 2 year contract without making warrenty claim or insurance claim for probably 7 years now. And twice my phone has broke and I've had to scramble to get it back to stock so I could swap it out. And then I bricked my wife's phone trying to flash it with ODIN 1-click. Yeah I could do without this sort of stuff next time. A Galaxy nexus is worth it for the peace of mind. Relax, your getting your updates, and if it breaks your 100% legit for a warrenty claim!
[Captivate Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] zeezz:
Same boat here. Upgrade eligible right now...

tempted by the LG Nitro HD (gorgeous screen, horrendous battery life) but looking at the Dev community for that phone is SO Sad.... barely any activity. GSII Skyrocket looks nice, but 800x480 is just so low for a phone of that size. That's worse PPI than our cappy! HOWEVER, LTE on these phones is blazing in the Bay Area, CA. Definitely need LTE on my next device, so probably rules out the Nexus.

Sad part is, my power button has just started failing on my cappy... been trying to fix it... but slowly.. it's dying more :(

How sad is it that going to any of the current phones on AT&T means losing ICS? CM9 has been amazing on the captivate and has made it pretty much a new device. Hard to believe we've taken this thing from froyo (yuck) to GB and to ICS.
[Captivate Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] Cor-master:
Yeah I don't get whats up with all the new phones having gingerbread, and honestly any phone I get next is going to have ICS on it, I've made my mind up on that. I bought this phone in November of 2010 thinking "ah it'll get froyo any day now".... and well yeah. I'm not playing the whole "upgradeable to...." game again.

I will say too if I get anything else other than a Galaxy Nexus its going to have to be a phone like the Captivate with a huge following. The Captivate benefited from being AT&T's flagship android phone from July 2010 to February of 2011, and being part of the extremely hyped up "Galaxy S" series, people were itching and dieing for it to come out. Remember what we had before that? The Backflip? The droid Eris...err I mean HTC Aria? Yeah the Captivate was the first real deal android phone on AT&T.

Now things are different. AT&T probably has a good 20 android phones its currently selling, and 6 more coming already. You really gotta watch and see what phone is going to have a following now. You might buy a phone that sounds awesome on paper, only to find its got gingerbread on it, no updates planned, and no developer support because simply not enough people have it!

I don't regret this phone at all, its been a ton of fun, and really AT&T didn't have any "must have" android phone out until the Galaxy S2 came out in Fall of last year.
[Captivate Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] RockRatt:
I got my cappy as my first android device and after updating via all the awesome roms devs put out i was hooked. I was able to upgrade after 1 year with my cappy and had such the decisions also. For me though it was between either getting the international sgs2 or att sgs2. I ended up choosing the att sgs2 (NOT THE SKYROCKET but the Original). I still have two cappys and nkw two att sgs2's. The sgs2 is by far a better device even though i love my cappy. The battery life is about double with actual DISPLAY ON TIME ranging for me from 4-6 hours depending on what i am doing and with a minimum total off charger time of 16-18 hours. Again that is minimum but i can still get two or more days with quite a bit of use. The exerynos processor kicks ass. ICS runs really well on it as does the gingerbread roms. NOTE the ICS is from the i9100 international sgs2 and i only did it for testing as it is right now there is no sound during a call. The att OG SGS2 is even closer to the international sgs2 than it is for the cappy and i9000 international phones.

The dual core DOES make a huge difference in everything and the battery life is still better. Samsung made the SGS2's really work perfectly with everything spot on. Front camera, great rear camera, great processor (exerynos), great form factor, great size and clarity of the screen. Not really a thing wrong with it. Oh also NO CIQ( carrier IQ) on the original att galaxy s2 but it IS on the skyrocket and presumably be on the the skyrocket hd.

Now IF you can wait I believe the SGS3 will be no different and be really well done. But like I learned from my cappy and now the att sgs2 is that I am DONE getting any branded phones from att or any carrier for that matter. I will definetely be getting an international version phone and probably the SGS3. THE international phones get way more leaks and actual rom support, they have leaked ICS roms that already work very well and I am sure ATT will drag there feet on getting ICS for the att galaxy s2 as well as the ****rocket. If history repeats itself the international will get jelky bean or whatever it is called by the time att lets us have ICS. So it may be a little more upfront cost( probably hundreds) but it wont be scewed over by att with things like carrier IQ and att bloatware. So i would say wait until May or so and save your pennies and get the international sgs3.

Sent From My KickAss ATT SGS2 SPORTING CM7
[Captivate Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] oldskooldawgz:
I plan on exiting the smartphone market all together and getting a basic messaging phone and no data. But plan to keep my captivate with no data
[Captivate Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] panda_mode:
Looking towards the note, att sgs2, maybe the xperia ion.

But I'm satisfied with my captivate. We have froyo, gingerbread, ics, can run ROMs from the galaxy S international version, cyanogenmod support, and ported MIUI. Really hope this forum is still alive by 2013.
[Captivate Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] mcala:
I am in the same boat. I can upgrade right now if I wanted too! I was looking around last night at BestBuy, Target, Radio Shack, WalMart & AT&T comparing prices for the SGSII. WalMart was the cheapest @ 98.00. There is 1 big catch to upgrading. I will lose my $25.00 2GB data plan. Now its 20 bucks for 300Mb, 30 for 3GB & 50 for 5GB. Plus, I didn't see my $10.00 1000 text messaging plan anymore. It was $20.00 for unlimited & $30.00 for unlimited family w/ M2M. I must really think this over now.

The Note is too much @ $300.00 when in 6-12 months it'll be $150.00!
[Captivate Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] mcala:
AT&T as well as others are really screwing us. $20.00 bucks for 300Mb but then 3GB for $30.00? Doing the math doesn't add up. It should be like $5.00 a GB. My ETF is around the same price of a SkyRocket. So I'm screwed either way.
[Captivate Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] fldude99:
When I went to upgrade, att didn't make me change my $25/2GB plan
[Captivate Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] mcala:
Was that thru AT&T or a third party vendor. I went thru the whole process at the at&t site & near the end where the sgs2 was in my cart it said I needed to choose a data plan. That's where the 2GB plan was not found.
[Captivate Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] Cor-master:
I'm thinking about toughing it out till November and leaving at&t now. They just keep looking for more ways to nickel and dime you and it's pissing me off. Just read today that they are changing the upgrade fees from $18 to $36. I always thought the upgrade fee was bs anyway I mean I already have to pay for the subsidized cost anyway, and my understanding the company recorded record profit last year. So let's get this straight, record profit, last place in customer service, and the nations worst 3G network... Yet costs keep going up... What am I paying for?
[Captivate Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] jgr208:
The other companies also charge a $34-$36 upgrade fee.
[Captivate Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] ranick01:
I pre-ordered the galaxy note

My captivate is going to be my new MP3 player for the car.
[Captivate Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] Cor-master:
Well maybe at&t will hit rock bottom like sprint did and completely overhaul the pricing. I've been with at&t since 2002, talked about leaving since 2007 so who knows probably will stay again. My main issue is the 3G network is just pure crap, it's like they got it working in major cities and said "we're good" and never touched it again. Very annoying playing pandora on a road trip and you hit an "edge " zone and your pandora just cuts off. Also seems the network gets overloaded very easily too. I live in Indianapolis and we had the Superbowl here last week. Went downtown and took a bunch of pictures but couldn't upload them to Facebook because inspite of being on 3G and having full signal, network was overloaded and data just didn't work. What am I paying for? $25 a month for data and when I need it I can't access it.
[Captivate Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] mcala:
Well it's official. I'll be receiving my SGSII in 1 day. It's the smarter choice for me. Major dev support, price & it's not disgustingly big (Note). Dual core with better cpu than ****Rocket! I got it thru AT&T's Premier site, I'm a corporate customer. $149.99. Walmart was $98.99 but they were forcing roadside assistance for 6months, "catch"! I had to upgrade to the $30.00 3GB plan but made a call to customer service & she noted the account. I have to call back after activation to have it reverted to grandfathered status which I doubt is going to work. BS artist!
[Captivate Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] Bruce Inman:
AT$T can pound sand!

Okay, here's my $0.02 worth, anything over and AT$T will charge you additional... :rolleyes:

I have been a loyal AT$T customer for over 20 years through various acquistions (GTE, Cingular, Etc.) and started to get the "you are in the top 5% of data users" text starting Oct of last year.

Being on a grandfathered "unlimited" plan this really pissed me off :mad: when they started to throttle my data. So, after the first week of my new billing cycle, my data connection is virtually worthless. Customer support is worthless and AT$T maintains "its in the TOS, so too bad."

I've filed complaints with the FCC, the FTC and signed a petition on change.org. :mad:

I will gladly pay the ETF and move on to a truly unlimited data plan with Sprint, because cdma is far faster than throttled 3G!

You can find me over in the AT$T forums soliciting support, until they ban me anyways.... :D
[Captivate Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] Cor-master:
What makes me mad is I was OK with not having unlimited data since it saves me $10 a month on me and my wife's captivates, but now they kill my plan off, and make a 3 gig plan that is the same price as the old data? AT&T just keeps nickling and diming wherever they can, they don't care what their customers want. I mean my buddy is on Verizon and he haggles a new phone out of them every year, only way your getting that on att is if you shell out $200+ subsidized cost + $+ 36 upgrade fee. And they are too the book on it too?
[Captivate Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] Jayc313:
I'm due for an upgrade now. Love my Cappy so I'm not in any hurry. I'm looking at where the developers are and what devices they probably will be supporting. The SGS II has a lot of support right now (many of them former Cappy developers), so I'm thinking that when the SGS III comes out there will be a big shift to that device.

So here's where I'm torn: So many of the Cappy's developers have left for the SGS II that that I think that if I get an SGS II now there will be great support for another 6 or so months, or should I wait on the SGS III and have great support until the SGS IV comes out?
[Captivate Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] mcala:
Well it all depends how long you can wait. I was due in January & I could only wait this much. But hey, I have the primary number so I'll be updating again next year in Feb. By then the SGSIII should be out or at least ICS for the SGSII!
[Captivate Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] sleeper994:
i love my cappy but have to admit, Sgs II looks pretty good to me
[Captivate Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] rolltide1995:
I just know got a cappy today.
[Captivate Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] mcala:
Little late to the party but hey, its a great phone with good devs. ICS is great, KK4 roms are good. Just flash away my friend!
[Captivate Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] rolltide1995:
I bought it from a friend. I only paid $50 it was a good deal
[Captivate Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] ratflinger:
May have to wait anyway, Apple just filed another lawsuit over the Nexus. Douchebags at Apple think they invented the world. They invented nothing - but their packaging is nice. I'm surprised that Johnny Appleseed hasn't been sued.
[Captivate Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] fldude99:
It's was at the local Target store. It showed the new plans & my 2GB plan
[Captivate Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] Cor-master:
Yeah I can't stand apple and their lawsuits its no way to compete. They didn't inventory the smartphone nor the touchscreen.
[Captivate Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] fldude99:
If you filed patents that are even remotely being violated, you'd do the same thing as Apple
[Captivate Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] ptesmoke:
if i could file patents as broad as apples's yea i would. but honestly theyre just sore assed that the crapple generation is migrating to bigger better devices.

my grandma has an iphone...its no longer hip guy.
[Captivate Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] Cor-master:
It's one thing to patent new innovations but apple patents retarded stuff like where the speaker is placed etc. Honestly patents are supposed to protect small start up companies not allow large multi billion dollar corporations to bully everyone who competes with them. Honestly apple created their own worst enemy, had they iphone been launched on 4 networks in 2007 with mms and 3G Android probably wouldn't be the force it is these days so. I'm sure apple realizes their mistake and thinks they can just sue away Android to catch up.
[Captivate Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] LNJ:
I picked up a SGS2 i9100M last week and couldn't be happier. ICS on the Cappy really sped it up but it is way more fluid on the SGS2.
[Captivate Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] Xero3g:
For once, that's something they picked up from microsoft
[Captivate Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] Cor-master:
Well I gotta say I think right now there is simply nothing out worth upgrading too. Yeah there are a ton of phones better than ours, I mean ours is almost a 2 year old model now, but one things for sure I am not ditching it for an gingerbread phone that promises and update to ics! Whatever I get, it's gonna have ics on it when I get it. And as if now there seems to be only one phone out there that has it. So I'm waiting till spring, summer maybe even early fall. Thinking it might be wise to just wait for the s3 at this point.
[Captivate Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] fldude99:
I picked up a S2 and my only regret was waiting. It's like the Captivate on steroids. Nothing wrong with GB IMO
[Captivate Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] mcala:
+1, this phone rocks. I let it OTA update to KK6 then I rooted. I thought the cappy was bad but this thing is full of bloat like u can't believe!
[Captivate Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] Cor-master:
Well I sort of have to wait lol. I'm not even eligible for an upgrade till April and my wife isn't till July... And that is something I don't get we both got our captivates on the same day, why are our upgrade dates 3 months apart? Just because of that I'll probably wait till atleast July
[Captivate Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] fldude99:
Yea I don't get Att's upgrade policy. I had the Captivate for 15 months but was eligible for an upgrade. May not be a bad thing though..the S3 may be available by the time you're eligible in July
[Captivate Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] Cor-master:
Thats kind of what I'm hoping for :D Honestly I was at my witts end with this phone and now putting the new gingerbread bootloaders on and the newest makelegs cm7 kang on, its like an all new phone now, no lag whatsoever, very stable, and once I feel ICS matures enough its going to be even better after I put that on. So waiting isn't such a bad thing, definitley more tolerable with an android phone than my last contract where I was stuck with a Samsung Eternity for 2 years...I really thought it was an iphone killer....3 months down the road I regretted passing on the iphone smh (keep in mind AT&T had no android offerings at that point, we're talking 2009).
[Captivate Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] viny2cool:
i just found out that I am eligible for an upgrade from 3/1/2012....lol...I didnt even realize that...so I called customer service...they told me some logic that your upgrade date depends on the amount you pay every month, ....but also now ATT has changed their upgrade policy tho...everyone will get upgrade after 20 months...
[Captivate Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] Cor-master:
God 20 months, man what is up with AT&T? Every policy change is for the worse! 2 year contracts are outdated, phone technology is moving too fast to wait 2 years, or 20 months. The funny thing is hatred continues to grow for AT&T, and customers keep leaving, but they just don't seem to care, and are unfazed by it.