Between the Motorola Backflip and the HTC Aria, AT&T hasn't exactly been leading the charge on Android phones. But the Samsung Captivate, coming in the next few months, signals that the carrier is finally getting serious about Android.
As a Samsung Galaxy S phone, it's got impressive hardware: a 4-inch Super AMOLED touchscreen, 1GHz Hummingbird that processes graphics 3x faster than Snapdragon, a 5MP camera that records 720p video, and up to 32GB of combined onboard and external storage.
It also seems as though the Captivate hasn't been hamstrung in the way the Backflip was. Most notably, it'll ship with Google Search instead of the Backflip's pre-loaded Yahoo widget. Although it's not clear if Captivate owners will be able to download third-party apps, something AT&T so far hasn't allowed on their Android devices.
The catch—there's always a catch—is that Captivate will launch running Android 2.1 instead of Froyo. That would be less problematic were it not that the phone isn't launching for another few months, meaning a bump up to Android 2.2 could be quite a ways away. Pricing, too, is still unannounced, and it will be interesting to see how AT&T positions Captivate against its other big summer release.
Still, though, good to see AT&T getting serious about Android, especially if Captivate can live up to its billing.
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