Samsung BlackJack II Phone, Black (AT&T)

Samsung BlackJack II Phone, Black (AT&T) Features

Additional Samsung BlackJack II Phone, Black (AT&T) Information

The Windows Mobile 6 Professional operating system offers a familiar office experience and the ability to read and edit in applications such as Word or Excel as well as review Powerpoint presentations. You can also receive Outlook email and update your contacts and calendar on the go. Other features include quad-band global connectivity. And you'll be able to get to where you're going fast with the integrated GPS receiver and support for TeleNav GPS Navigator software. Other features include Bluetooth connectivity for headsets and stereo music streaming, MicroSD memory expansion, speakerphone, instant messaging, and simultaneous voice and data capabilities.

The easily pocketable, ultra-thin Samsung Blackjack II measures just 0.4 inches and weighs 3.52 ounces. AT&T Service
This AT&T phone can handle high-speed data connectivity via AT&T's 3G mobile broadband data network, which is available in most major metropolitan areas. The AT&T 3G network uses the tri-band UMTS/HSDPA 850/1900/2100 MHz network (also known as WCDMA), making it possible to enjoy a variety of feature-rich wireless multimedia services with speeds up to 3.6 Mbps. It also gives AT&T the advantage of offering simultaneous voice and data services.

In areas where the 3G network is not available, you'll continue to receive service on the AT&T EDGE network, which offers availability in more than 13,000 US cities and along some 40,000 miles of major highways. Providing average data speeds between 75-135Kbps, it's fast enough to support a wide range of advanced data services, including video and music clips, full picture and video messaging, high-speed color Internet access, and email on the go. You'll also enjoy quad-band GSM connectivity, which allows you to make calls in more than 190 countries and access data applications in the more than 135 countries where AT&T offers international data roaming.

With 3G connectivity, you'll be able to access AT&T's Video Share service, which enables you to send a live, one-way video stream to another compatible phone during a standard voice call. The service also allows you to switch the direction of the video stream during the same phone call. (Customers must be in an area served by the company's 3G network and have a Video Share-enabled phone.)

It's packed with multimedia streaming and download capabilities. AT&T's Cellular Video (CV) service features content from CNN, The Weather Channel, iFilm, Comedy Central and exclusive premium content from HBO and much more. And you get access to AT&T Mobile Music, which enables you to buy tracks while on the, access the Napster subscription music service, stream music video, discover what's playing with Music ID song-recognition software, and find out what's hot with The Buzz music news portal. (A MEdia Max subscription bundle is recommended for accessing AT&T's Internet, video, and music services.)

The phone has a built-in web browser for MEdia Net downloads and mobile web browsing. AT&T's MEdia Net service enables you to receive and send emails, read news headlines, get weather updates, download games and ringtones, and more.

With the power of Windows Mobile 6, you can easily stay in contact via email as well as edit Word and Excel documents. Phone Features
Glossier than its predecessor, the Samsung BlackJack II impresses immediately with its striking looks, thin frame, and larger 2.4-inch LCD screen (320 x 240 pixels, 65K colors). The Samsung BlackJack II makes every aspect of your life look easy. The full QWERTY keypad gives you every letter at a touch. And the Jog Wheel lets you quickly access, scroll through and select whatever you're searching for.

With Windows Mobile 6, the BlackJack II brings a powerful personal computer experience to the small screen. The BlackJack II helps you keep track of schedules and contacts through Outlook Mobile, browse the Internet by using Internet Explorer Mobile, as well as manage Word, Excel and PowerPoint documents using Office Mobile. Windows Mobile 6 also supports HTML e-mail so that you can view and compose e-mail messages in their native format with live links to Web sites, support for images, tables and bullets.

BlackJack II will be among the first Windows Mobile 6 devices from AT&T to support Microsoft's System Center Mobile Device Manager 2008, which offers companies an end-to-end solution for managing and securing Windows Mobile devices. Employees will also have access to company information and a line of business applications from a single, secure place behind the firewall by using a cutting-edge Mobile Virtual Private Network (VPN).

In addition to a robust feature set, BlackJack II provides access to multiple e-mail accounts, both personal and business, through Microsoft Direct Push technology with Outlook Mobile and AT&T Xpress Mail, which includes most major POP3/IMAP providers. The BlackJack II also offers over-the-air synchronization of contacts, calendar and task lists with Microsoft Exchange Server or AT&T Xpress Mail.

This phone provides Bluetooth version 2.0 wireless connectivity, and includes profiles for mono and stereo headset, handsfree, dial-up networking, object push, file transfer, and basic print. With the A2DP Bluetooth profile, you can stream your music to a pair of compatible Bluetooth stereo headphones. You can connect your laptop (either via Bluetooth or wired USB) and enjoy dial-up networking--surf the Internet, send email, and access files from a server. It also offers USB 2.0 wired connectivity and USB mass storage capability.

Other features include: Memory expansion via MicroSD cards up to 4 GB PIM tools: Calendar, clock, world time, alarm, currency converter, unit converter, calculator, stopwatch Instant messaging via AOL, Windows Live, Yahoo! Hands-free loudspeaker and microphone Fast loading HTML browser; RSS reader 2.0-megapixel camera with 4x zoom and multi-shot capability 256 MB ROM / 128 MB RAM

Vital Statistics
The Samsung Blackjack II weighs 3.52 ounces and measures 4.4 x 2.3 x. 0.4 inches. Its 1700 mAh lithium-ion battery is rated at up to 7 hours of talk time, and up to 14 days of digital standby time. It runs on the 850/900/1800/1900 GSM/GPRS/EDGE frequencies as well as 850/1900/2100 WCDMA (3G) frequencies.

Powered by Windows Mobile 6


Windows Mobile 6 adds power to your mobile office with up-to-date e-mail delivery and automatic synchronization of Outlook calendars.  

Edit Word documents and Excel spreadsheets on your phone, just as you would on your desktop/laptop PC. Microsoft's Windows Mobile 6 updates the Windows Mobile 5 platform with a number of handy features that make searching through email, editing Microsoft Office documents, and staying on top of your most important communications even easier. Emails can now be viewed in their original rich HTML format and now offer the ability to visit embedded links. It also includes Windows Live for Windows Mobile, which provides a full set of Windows Live services, such as the Windows Live Messenger IM application, which now enables you to chat with more than one person at one time or send a file. This device runs Windows Mobile 6 Professional, which is designed for smartphones with touchscreens

With Windows Mobile 6, your phone will finally be able to emulate the power and features of your PC's Microsoft Office suite. You'll be able to neatly view, navigate and edit Word documents and Excel spreadsheets in their original formatting--without affecting tables, images or text--as well as view PowerPoint presentations. Microsoft Office Word Mobile features include spell-check, Find and Replace commands, bulleted lists, text formatting, and support for tables for the first time. With Excel Mobile, you're not just confined to editing charts: with the new Chart Wizard you can create charts quickly and easily. PowerPoint Mobile allows you to view the full presentation, rehearse timings, check the order and any live links you may have in your presentation. You can then email comments back to the team or communicate via MSN Messenger for an immediate response. After creating or editing a Word document or Excel spreadsheet, you can synchronize it with your PC and it will automatically be converted to the PC version.

All Windows Mobile 6 powered devices include Direct Push Technology for up-to-date e-mail delivery and automatic synchronization of Outlook calendars, tasks and contacts through Microsoft Exchange Server. It also offers a set of important device security and management features that include the capability to remotely wipe all data from a device should it be lost or stolen, helping ensure that confidential information remains that way.

What Customers Say About Samsung BlackJack II Phone, Black (AT&T):

Very flimsy, try a Blackberry instead, if you want to listen to music and enjoy all the functions of your phone, it is more durable and has a separate connection for music. They say it is Beyond economical repair and send your unrepaired phone back to you. The problem I had with this phone is the ill conceived idea of the power port being the interface for music and computer connectivity. This power port is very flimsy and breaks easily with any wear and tear and Samsung will not fix it because it is connected to the motherboard of the phone.

If you are foolish enough to buy this phone, watch out for the service plan, since the only way that I can get this piece of useless electronics replaced now is to buy a new one at retail. Apparently I had overloaded it by using the features that are on the phone and I don't even have it connected to the Internet.And this is in addition to the menus, etc., being awkward at best, confusing at times, and often simply impossible to decipher and use. I have called Samsung to try to report this, but the automated answering service just hangs up. I have had this phone since last October with ATT service. At this point my plan is to buy a new one, let my plan with ATT expire and make sure that I never have anything to do with either company again. It has weird things happen, such as tonight when it erased all of my calendar (one of the major reasons I bought it). The telephone is a piece of junk. A couple of weeks ago I had some alarms set and the only way that I could stop an alarm was by taking the battery out of the thing.

Flash enabled sites are also difficult to load and I even tried loading several Adobe Flash apps that claim to work with these sites, however they were never successful. I found the Windows software to connect to your laptop to be easy to use. If you leave the web broswer open for an extended period of time or surf graphically intense sites it can drain extremely fast if you don't turn off the 3G speed. It also slows down the phone and makes it extremely tiresome to use. Imagine waiting on a battery to arrive in a week and not having to access work or personal contacts.

The inferior sound quality also applies to Youtube videos and the various "streaming TV" services that are offered on a pay-per-view basis. As a result, I found it difficult dialing a number quickly without saving it first. Typing in text boxes is hit or miss depending on how fast the site loads. The IE browser works a fair amount of time but high graphic intensive sites hunkers down the phone and makes it very slow. Streaming radio is enabled for for various sites but again the weak battery will drain unless you are listening connected to an external AC dapter which defeats the purpose of listening on the go. But when playing back video in Vista it came out choppy videos and copying the pictures taken with the camera to my local hard drive was rather useless as the software caused my laptop to blue screen and crash several times. The luxury to occasionally view Youtube videos is nice but the weak battery drains fast also when using the camera to record video. Samsung also has disabled Internet tethering on this model, meaning that it can no longer be used as a modem to connect your laptop to surf the web.Playing cellphone games on the Blackjack 2 is also problematic as part of the control scheme uses the scroll wheel and not a traditional controller setup that can be emulated with a regular cell phone key configuration.

Turning off images using a toggle or hot key would have been nice rather than having to press the right button every time. Press to hard on the scroll wheel and you have a broken phone and send it in for a replacement or risk voiding the warranty if you want to open the phone up and replace the scroll wheel yourself.Its a nice phone for browsing low graphic news sites, and even allows me to post on some web forums something my previous phone could not achieve. Leave the camera on by accident and again pay the price with a much faster reduction in battery power. I switched to the Blackjack 2 last summer after owning a very simple LG phone for 3 years. While sound quality for streaming radio is clear, MP3's saved on the phone is scratchy and almost unlistenable. This can be a minor inconvenience but once you get the hang of the keypad it is easily overlooked. The battery is the number one problem with this phone. I could browse these sites easily on my previous phone but after making the upgrade, I can no longer access them.

I wanted to remotely surf the web easier and found that the text interface was simpler to use than the Iphone, for me at least. The phone also has a tendency to get extremely warm when its expending too much memory doing memory intensive tasks for Internet Explorer, video, and streaming radio.The Blackjack extended battery is replaced about every 5 months but when it goes out it usually does without warning. But after a few months the RSS feeds for several sites no longer would update as often as they should or we're just dead links. Video playblack also will naturally drain the battery and the sound picture quality is rather poor but this is to expected from a cellphone since isn't designed to be a multimedia powerhouse. The Opera Mini Java browser can also be easily installed and can view other sites that the default IE browser has problems. Especially when other phones just require a simple touch of a button and not multiple functions to accomplish such a simple task.

The character limit per message is somewhat annoying especially for the heavy texters who have to shorten every other word just for a sentence to have clear meaning. The battery can't be easily obtained in store at any brick and mortar AT&T Wireless location and has to be ordered online. You become so used to fast DSL connections making the transition is a lot harder than it seems. Having to press and hold the Fn key every time to input a number can be somewhat inconvenient. The disadvantage of the Opera Mini browser however is the inability to view streaming videos from Youtube. On my second battery replacement I tried charging the phone as usual and got a yellow warning light which indicates abnormal charging or battery replacement. Turning off 3G speed helps the battery but single G is equivalent to dialup speeds.

You are dead in the water.Finally, the most important and basic feature was dialing using the keypad. Even sent to the largest sized text, some sites still show tiny letters. This is problematic because you have to deal with the delays in shipping. Also the RSS Reader is great for regular updates from news sites. Something which the IE browser can accomplish with the Windows 6 Media player but not without being able to play larger video clips of 10 minutes or more completely. Try and type in the middle of loading and chances are you will make a mistake in you're entry. Another thing that I noticed is the inability to load some sites that used outdated HTML frames script.

Reading on the small screen with extremely small font sized is also a burden to deal with.

Because it isnt on samsung's. I told them good luck, that the phone wasn't having a constant problem. So, I returned it to the at&t authorized dealer that i bought it from, and they sent a new one out. The first one I received was a dud, and luckily I figured it out within the first 30 days. but my phone never made a sound.Now, to prove that this wasnt a carrier problem, I had taken my sim card out, and put in in an older phone that I still had, by nokia actually. I even was able to look at the call duration and tell the other person on the line that in 5 seconds, the call was going to be dropped.and it did.

So chances were that I was going to send it in, and they would test it out, it would be fine, and they would send it right back saying that there was nothing wrong with it. And no longer was in warranty. Then it would be fine for a couple of days. Then it started dropping my calls. After this happening 3 different sporadic days, for the entire day, i decided to call samsung.Samsung told me to send in the phone and they would fix it. I did this everytime that the problems started getting too annoying to deal with, and to prove to myself that it was the blackjack, not at&t. She said that she would call, it would ring and ring, and then go to my voice mail. If it had water damage and the such, why hadnt they been able to see it when I first sent in the phone.

but this time, I sent it in with a letter, hoping that somewhere in corporate, they would make an exception to their "no new phone replacement" policy being that this phone really was a lemon. I figured that they would just send me a new phone, like most all of other companies do. And everytime i switched to the nokia, I had perfect reception, every message came through and went through within seconds. odd isnt it.So my final question to you.Is customer satisfaction high on your priorities.

I bought the blackjack 2 earlier this year, around January. If u have to service anything more than so many dollars worth of labor and parts within the first year of owning it, then by law the company must give you a new product. And when I got it back, they had included details of what they "claimed was the problem". And then sometimes I'd have full strength, yet it just wouldn't make an outgoing call. I had been doing this since the beginning, since the first blackjack that I received.

And guess what happened.they didnt do anything, and sent it back, problems and all.So I waited, and the problems started getting worse, reoccurring more often, and the battery life started diminishing before my eyes. I believe that the problem it was having was the inability to pick up a signal, and it kept freezing over and over on me. If ever I've seen covering your own bottom, THIS was IT. And same with her. In the letter, I said that I was aware of a law called the "lemon law". Obviously, a problem with the blackjack.So, recently I called samsung again, told them the entire story, and they gave me the same lame deal. My brother invoked this to Scion with his TC, and to avoid it, they installed a whole new transmission, and motor in his car.Samsung took their time fixing my phone. Hmmmmmm.

losing signal strength, yet the phone still working fine. So, I sent it in. It had water damage and physical abuse. That is the one I still have.Several months later, the phone starts to act up. "Send the phone in", so I did. I got so bad, that my girlfriend thought that I was ignoring her for several days bc not only would my calls not ring on her phone, but the texts I sent wouldnt show up either. There were 3 prominent days I remember where I couldnt receive or make a call that lasted over 25 seconds. But they told me that they dont give out new phones as warranty replacements.

The Windows OS is impossible to manage effectively and the build of the phone itself cannot withstand even minor drops from the pocket.I would never recommend this phone to anyone. I've had this phone for less than a year and I can say that, without a doubt, this is the least user-friendly and least durable phone I have ever owned.