Samsung is busy dishing out touchscreen phones one after the other, but it hasn’t exactly forgotten about those who can’t just do without a physical keyboard when typing on their handsets. To address the need of keyboard diehards, Samsung has released Captivate Glide for the AT&T network.
Partnering with AT&T was a good move as the phone, which has a QWERTY slider, makes full use of the network’s 21Mbps HSPA+. Captivate Glide is like your typical touchscreen phone but has a slide out keyboard. Despite having a four-row QWERTY keyboard, Captivate Glide manages to look slim enough while boasting that 4 inches of 16M-color Super AMOLED capacitive touchscreen.
Captivate Glide will not win on the looks department with many slim and sleek touchscreen phones around nowadays but Samsung has managed to somehow trim some of the heft associated with such slider designs. Its dimensions are: 4.9 x 2.5 x 0.5 inches and weighs 5.2 ounces.Captivate Glide is no slouch when it comes to hardware and software. The phone comes equipped with Android OS v2.3.5 powered by its 1 GHz dual core NVIDIA Tegra 2 CPU and 1GB of RAM. Samsung didn’t scrimp on the camera either, packing in an 8MP shooter with LED flash at the back and a 1.3MP front-facing camera. Captivate Glide records 720p HD video at 30fps. The built-in storage may be a tad smaller by today’s standards at 8GB but a microSD slot makes up for it.
Samsung Captivate Glide may not have made so much noise when introduced compared to flagship phones, but it will surely be a welcome addition to AT&T’s offerings and will find a spot for users who still prefer that good old physical keyboard as an alternative to their touchscreen phones.
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