Cingular’s Samsung BlackJack - Thinner Profile, Fatter Price Than “Q”
New handsets never seem to materialize as fast as we think they will. Certainly not as fast as we want them to.
Back in September we were wishin’ and hopin’ and expectin’ the new Samsung BlackJack from Cingular. Two months later, we’re finally going to get it. It’s rolling out on the 16th.
We were hoping it’d be smaller than the Motorola Q, and it is - thinner, and narrower. We were hoping that, unlike the Q, the BlackJack would have WiFi. It doesn’t. But it does have HSPDA 3G capability, which gives you superfast data. That is, when you’re in a location where Cingular has already upgraded its data service for 3G.
Its Windows Mobile 5.9 with Direct Push email gives you a BlackBerry-ish experience. Not BlackBerryish at all is its Cingular Music capability, including XM music channels. For $199.99 BlackJack is $100 more than Q, but it packs a lot in its slimmer package.
If you can’t live without the WiFi you might want to hit up the T-Mobile store down the street for a Dash.
[via ZDNet]
December 4th, 2006 at 12:18 pm
[...] Throw In WiFi This Time: Samsung Ultra Messaging i600 December 4th, 2006 by John It’s as if Samsung was listening to every word we said. Back in November when Cingular rolled out Samsung’s Blackjack, we wondered why they’d forgotten to include WiFi in a smartphone that seemed to have almost everything else going for it. [...]