Samsung Captivate Finally Gets Official Gingerbread Update

Well it seems that Samsung and AT&T have finally updated the Captivate to the now outdated Android 2.3. Nearly a year and a half old (8 days away from it), the Captivate has probably been given its last breath of life.

For a full list of enhancements that comes along with the update to gingerbread for the Captivate, click past the break!

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Release Notes

Android Gingerbread Highlights

New User Features

1. Download Management.
2. Intuitive Text Input.
   • New layout for larger fonts and easy inputs
   • Word prediction. Multi-touch for numerical input (Shift + Numbers)
   • One-touch Word Selection and Copy/Past

UI Improvements

1. Fixed Top-menu in Gmail.
2. Voice Search added into the search categories.
3. Vertical play mode added for YouTube.

New Developer Features

1. Enhancements for Game.
   • 3D Graphic driver updates
   • Additional Khronos standard such as OpenSL ES, EGL for better multimedia performance
   • Concurrent Garbage Collector technology imbedded to reduce lags in playing games