[Captivate General] ewingr:
Woot! Got it today. So I'm going to leave this screen up and add notes as I fiddle, it will be Very First Impressions. Going to add comments, thoughts and experiences here over the next couple hours while I fiddle.

Surprises

First Surprise - No manual. It came with quick start guide, and a think book titled Health & Savety and Warranty Guide.

It paired with my Motorola T-505 automatically. I did not have to enter the default 0000 code. All I had to do was tell it to scan.

The screen has some apps that it does not change to landscape when changing the orientation. For example, durng the Swype tutorial

Experiences/Impressions

The back plate is metal, and I think very nice. Phone does not feel cheap to me!

Gmail was easy to set up

Takes about 34 seconds to boot

Screen default to go off pretty quickly after no activity

Touch screen seems very sensitive. This is good. Take some getting used to. But I found a setting called vibratin intensity. I think that may be settings for screen sensitivity.

Yahoo set up fine. I may need to figure out how to limit messages

I like how it goes to the next message automatically, and FAST, if I het Delete

Hooked up quickly and easily to WiFi.

Have no clue how to determine what all apps are running or how to close them. I am aware of the 'need' for a task killer. (Controversial subject, it seems)

I hooked the USB to it so it can charge while i mess with it. After suspend and turn back on, it stays on a locked screen showing the USB connection. Not sure about this, how will it work to see anything whiel the phone is docked?

Came across an Auto reject setting. Not sure what it is, but presume for blocking numbers.

Has an optoin to reject a call, and then auto send a message

Has a minute minder setting, to tone each minute.

Finding some things that I need a manual for.

Hold the power button in and a popup for profiles comes up, with one of the options to power off.

Selected Text to Speech option in settings', so it had me install my first app: Android Text to Speech"

The Baseband version of the phone is JF6

They copied my contacts to my sim card. I told them not all were on my SIM. They took my old phone, and took quite a while doing it. But they are not complete, that is, for example my wife's number has our home number only. Need to figure out how to download contacts from Google, and to not show SIM contacts.

I notice that there is options for Google Contacts, Phone Contacts, and SIM contacts. I don't know if Google Contacts are on the phone or not, meaning do I need a data hookup to see them.

Clocks widgets very poor. In the dual clock, I would put in my city, click done, but nothing happen. Definitely need a custom widget.

Made first Market Purchase-> Beautiful Widgets. INteresting experience. Says it is installed, but when PRESS to bring up widgets to add, they are not there. Turned out they were under "Android Widgets". But then, it did not appear to be the full list [SIGH] I decided maybe I need to uninstall/reinstall. Went to market, there was no 'reinstall' option. So I went into Settings/Applications/Manage Apps. and uninstalled. Got message I had a refund.

That's my close to 3 hours worth of experiences.

My overall first impressions are...WOW! Very nice. Looks much nicer than i feared; does not feel cheap to me; I like the back plate.

Regarding lagging, stall, etc. Nothing so far. But I may not recognize it if it did, because I came to the from an OLD AT&T Tilt, which was soooooo slooooow.

Only a couple 'issues' at the moment, as noted above, but I think I'll get through those pretty quick.

7/16: 10:31 pm

A couple more comments: The screen can be seen pretty well in sunlight. This is THE main reason I wanted this phone.

When I first read of the STS, it looked pretty much perfect to me feature wise. But of course the US version have to mess with things. While I bought into the argument that the camera takes pretty good pictures in low light and a flash isn't that necessary, that appears to be true, given the right definition of low light :rolleyes: . Just tonight I was in an envirohment with very dim lights; party at a table at a ballroom dance hall. Definitely no pictures without a flash. So if having it be able to take pictures in dark enviornments, you don't want this phone.

I already miss the hard buttons I was used to on my old Tilt. You can feel them and not have to look at the phone. Can't do that with this.

I was somewhat enthused when I heard that if you turn off auto brightness, you can slide across the top, left or right, to brighten or dim the phone. But in practice, not all that great.

Regarding brightness of the screen. I read a poster on a SGS forum complaining about it being to bright at night. I can see what he means. There is not a very large range between dim and bright. But I'll take this over not being able to see it in sunlight.

So the two main 'disappointments' at the moment are, no flash, which I knew about going into this, and can live with; and no FM radio, at least that not that I can find.

So the current impression is still I love the phone. Its not perfect, but none are. My emotions at the moment say I'd really like the Droid X if it had the screen that this one has.