Last week I finally got fed up with my old cell phone (an Audiovox Smartphone). Don’t get me wrong, the phone was great, but it was 2.5 years old and had thousands of miles on it. I had literally used it until it was falling apart.
So after much research, I went to my neighborhood Cingular store and picked up a fantastic new phone: the Samsung Blackjack. This is a windows smartphone, using a newer (and better) version of Windows Mobile, and has a qwerty keyboard. I’m so impressed with the capabilities of the phone, I threw together a wiki to help share tips and tricks. Check it out.
Overall, I’m really really impressed with this phone. A quick review…
Pros:
- Super thin form factor
- Small, yet comfortable thumb keyboard
- Clear (if not thin) sound
- Beautiful screen
- Ultra-fast internet connection
- Cingular TV downloads fun video clips download very fast (unfortuantely they have to be played through the horrid Windows Media Player)
- Unlike my old smartphone, I can setup multiple POP email accounts so I can check all my personal email accounts.
Cons:
- Super short battery life
- Jog dial is not tall enough to be easy enough to use
- Unlock procedure (for the keyboard locking) isn’t easy enough to do one handed
- Details about how data plan works is ….difficult to understand (even the Cingular reps don’t understand it)
- Windows Media Player is a piece of garbage
- No accessory to connect proprietary data port/headphone port into standard headphone jack (Hopefully this changes. Fast.)
Overall, very strong recommendation. More review info soon!
Steven Starkey
December 12th, 2006 6:01
I'm a Cingular Rep and I understand the data plan. Its very simple. This runs on the 39.99 PDA Connect Plan. Thats the provisioning code required for the Blackjack. All the stores should have recieved an email explaining this. Hope this helps.
Steven Starkey
December 12th, 2006 13:01
I'm a Cingular Rep and I understand the data plan. Its very simple. This runs on the 39.99 PDA Connect Plan. Thats the provisioning code required for the Blackjack. All the stores should have recieved an email explaining this. Hope this helps.
Jake
December 12th, 2006 8:23
Actually, that's not entirely true, as I understand it.
PDA Connect (for a Smartphone, not a PDA phone... very confusing) doesn't give you access to the Cingular TV and other MEdiaNet content. At least not from what they told me.
And I can't get anyone to verify that the 1000 message package that comes with the "unlimited" MEdiaNet package is for SMS/MMS messages only, with IM being covered as part of the "unlimited" plan or not. I have no clue why it seems reasonable to charge by the IM message.
Thanks for the comment, Steven, and welcome to the site!
Jake
December 12th, 2006 15:23
Actually, that's not entirely true, as I understand it.
PDA Connect (for a Smartphone, not a PDA phone... very confusing) doesn't give you access to the Cingular TV and other MEdiaNet content. At least not from what they told me.
And I can't get anyone to verify that the 1000 message package that comes with the "unlimited" MEdiaNet package is for SMS/MMS messages only, with IM being covered as part of the "unlimited" plan or not. I have no clue why it seems reasonable to charge by the IM message.
Thanks for the comment, Steven, and welcome to the site!
teejay
June 4th, 2007 8:10
You're right about the PDA Connect plan Jake, I was quite disappointed to find that I could not access the Cingular goodies, but then I realized, like the flake that I am, that it doesn't really matter because I can access the internet, but it's the principle of the thing, y'know?
teejay
June 4th, 2007 14:10
You're right about the PDA Connect plan Jake, I was quite disappointed to find that I could not access the Cingular goodies, but then I realized, like the flake that I am, that it doesn't really matter because I can access the internet, but it's the principle of the thing, y'know?
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