Samsung i897 Captivate specification and prices
Samsung i897 Captivate appeared on sale on June 2010 and for today the mobile phone is already dicontinued. This device belongs to the lowest price range: the Samsung i897 Captivate cost in USA for now is $84.99. The mobile phone is still on sale from carriers including AT&T Wireless, Boost Mobile, Virgin Mobile USA, Verizon Wireless as well as retail stores like Target, RadioShack.
The mobile phone runs on the most popular operating system in the world for today - Android OS. i897 Captivate was produced with the already out-of-date for now Android version: 2.1 (Eclair). It means that the mobile phone owner will be able to run only some old games and apps with the current OS version. The phone is equipped with 1.0 GHz Cortex-A8 CPU which provides a not satisfactory performance. The cell phone runs 512 MB RAM which is not enough for normal usage.
The i897 Captivate has nice 5 megapixel primary camera. With such camera owner of this device will be able to take nice photos and videos of a satisfactory quality. To take really high quality photos Specspro advices you to check the better Samsung mobile phone Galaxy A8 (2016).
The cell phone has a small 4 inch display. It means that many users will enjoy to use the mobile phone with one hand.
i897 Captivate has removable Li-Ion 1500 mAh battery, which can guarantee up to 576 hours of standby time and about 6 hours of talk time. It is rather poor battery life results.
The i897 Captivate weight is 118 grams (4.16 oz), it is 122.4 mm (4.82 in) high, 64.2 mm (2.53 in) wide and has a 9.9 mm (0.39 in) depth which means that this mobile phone is rather thick.
You can purchase i897 Captivate in Black and Grey color.
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- 2010, June. Released 2010, July
- Discontinued
- Android OS, v2.1 (Eclair), upgradable to v2.3 (Gingerbread)
- Hummingbird
- 1.0 GHz Cortex-A8
- PowerVR SGX540
- 5 MP, autofocus
- No
- 720p@30fps
- Geo-tagging, touch focus, face/smile detection
- 4.0 inches
- 480 x 800 pixels (~233 ppi pixel density)
- Super AMOLED capacitive touchscreen, 16M colors
- Corning Gorilla Glass - TouchWiz 3.0 UI
- Yes
- Removable Li-Ion 1500 mAh battery
- About 750 h / About 576 h
- About 13 h 30 min / About 6 h 30 min
- 122.4 x 64.2 x 9.9 mm (4.82 x 2.53 x 0.39 in)
- 118 g (4.16 oz, 0.26 lb)
- Mini-SIM
- Black and Grey
- 16 GB, 512 MB RAM
- microSD, up to 32 GB (dedicated slot)
- Wi-Fi 802.11 b/g/n; DLNA
- v3.0, A2DP
- Yes, with A-GPS
- No
- microUSB v2.0
- Accelerometer, proximity, compass
- SMS(threaded view), MMS, Email, Push Mail, IM
- HTML, Adobe Flash Lite
- Yes
- Yes
- GSM / HSPA
- GSM 850 / 900 / 1800 / 1900
- HSDPA 850 / 1900 / 2100
- HSPA 7.2/5.76 Mbps
- Class 12
- Class 12
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