If 4g is not in your area or you don't care about it, get the captivate.
Today the salesman told me 4G is available, so that's cool to know.
If you have to have speed, wait and see about the Galaxy S2.
Yeah, the LTE feature, and I think dude told me that the display in next months model is a little better. Don't remember the specifics. That seems to be the decision. Oh and money too I suppose lol.
Really, for me, the Captivate is the best price/performance deal. Let's say we use the LTE speed on a regular basis. Watch a bunch of video w/ no buffering, download apps and media junk, dropbox pics whatever... you get raped on the data end. Without unlimited data, or at least a tier level in the 5GB+ range, 4G LTE loses a lot of its appeal because, imo, it costs too much to use in the ways you're suppose to use it, or where you benefit from the speed.
That's how they get you with this data shit.
Then you'd most likely make use of the LTE speeds, in which case, patience is a virtue.
Yes, if used, I'd love it and def benefit. But like I said here and in your texting thread, it's easy to use 2GB, which costs me $25/month and once you go above that, they start outright scamming you. I don't remember the additional data pricing scheme they force you into and too lazy to look it up, but it's brutal and not worth it (prolly another $25 for 2GB, or 1GB for $20). Not for what you get in return, which, for me, would be a bunch of liberal news content, whatevers funny on youtube atm and other mindless internet LOL related stuff.
When they marketed their data pricing plans, they claimed that a high majority of users would never go above their baseline offering of 200MB. Making the company the victim and the consumer the bad guy, they sold the idea that if you used more than 2GB, their only other option, you were a data hoarding, greedy asshole and you should have to pay an exorbitant overage fee for any usage above that.
For one I don't blame you, although I figured with those speeds they'd give you quite a bit of data. Two, I've downloaded updated roms in the past using the phone, eliminating the need for a computer to switch up the rom. I sometimes download music when someone recommends me a song or if a hear a good one on the radio. Some of the mid sized games on the market get up to 50 megs with updates that can sometimes take 25 megs. Or if for whatever reason you'd want to download a 700 some odd meg gameloft game while away from a hotspot.
I mean, today, with netflix and all the video available online, the ability to capture HD video, 8MP pics then share them from your phone AND with the size of websites and the data used just to render a page, am I wrong in thinking that 2GB is low? Most of the time I'm in a wireless network, so, yes, I could wait until then to do some of this, but then again it defeats the purpose of having this 4G feature.
That said, I'm still not going to rule it out. I'll have it for two years and I can watch my data usage. One thing about ATT is that they send several notifications via text and email before you go over.
