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Cingular high-speed network goes truly portable with the new Samsung BlackJack, an excellent little handheld for people looking for a BlackBerry-style device with more speed and multimedia features.

Just like T-Mobile Dash and Verizon’s Motorola Q, the Blackjack is a Windows Mobile 5.0 Smartphone Sporting a record of 320 x 240 screen, a full keyboard and a 1.3-megapixel camera on the back. In many ways it is a cross between the other two phones. Like the Dash, it is a quad-band mobile world, it is black, and it is almost exactly the same size. Like the Q, there is a high-speed national cellular network rather than using Wi-Fi, the keys are long slanted ovals, and it has a handy scroll wheel on the side and the cursor keys for navigation. At 4.5 by 2.3 inches and through, 5 from 3.5 ounces, it is smaller and lighter than both the Dash and Q.

Let’s step back for a minute. All three phones fit in the media-hyped category of “Blackberry killers.” Frankly, no one is killed on the BlackBerry anytime soon, but are all phones that look like Blackberries, but add the Windows Mobile abilities easily synchronize with Microsoft Outlook, Push e-mail can either Good Mobile Messaging or Exchange Server 2003 SP2 and play music and videos over from Windows Media Player sync.

All Windows Mobile 5 Smartphones work basically the same, but Cingular and Samsung their own line to the familiar “Windows Mobile BlackBerry killer have added” song with some new software. Instead of the usual ClearVue Microsoft Office viewers, the BlackJack includes the much slicker Picsel Viewer, which dissolves in my experience, complex PDF documents better. There are no Microsoft Office document editor, but at least the BlackJack comes with a notepad program. Cingular, however, the Black Jack certified for their Cingular Video service, letting you access streaming clips of CNN and HBO content. You can also use an XM radio streaming application, and there is also an RSS reader. The bundled OZ instant messaging program supports AIM, MSN Messenger and Yahoo! IM, a cross-application search function is also included. The Dash and Q do not come with these things. All this software is the 64 MB BlackJack only has 31 MB free for your own software, though. That should be enough for most people, but thankfully the Dash comes with twice as much space.

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The Black Jack to connect to the Internet with Cingular’s growing HSDPA network, which was in 50 or so metro areas at last count. It is not nearly as widespread as Verizon’s EV-DO system, but it is catching up. With the BlackJack as a PC modem, we got an average of 584 kbps downloads, which is slower than EV-DO (where we will periodically receive 700 kbps or higher), but much faster than national EDGE Cingular network, which drops the Black Jack is if there is HSDPA area. (EDGE speeds generally hover of the 90-120 kbps range.) Blackjack EDGE also uses overseas, such as the Cingular 8525, can beat the foreign HSDPA networks against.

As a worldwide quad-band phone, the BlackJack is satisfyingly loud, and the voice quality is clear. The reception is also much stronger than on the Cingular 8525th The speakerphone is on the back of approaches Nextel volume but annoyingly you have to turn on the phone in order to hear correctly; Interestingly, this appears to not affect how well you transmit your voice through the microphone. Gearbox sounds a bit hollow, but I have found all of Cingular’s HSDPA phones yet, so it can be a feature of the network. I connected several Bluetooth headsets without a problem. There is no voice dialing, unlike on the dashboard and Q.

The BlackJack’s battery life is going to scare anyone to EDGE phones, but it is almost natural for a 3G device. Continuous talk time is 3 hours 51 minutes. Yes, it is shorter than the Cingular 8525, but the 8525 is also much more bulky.

The BlackJack also makes a dandy music player, as it supports protected and subscription WMA music from stores like Urge, Napster and Yahoo! And plays music through Bluetooth headphones. You can sync music through Windows Media Player, put it on a microSD memory card, or drag u0026 drop tracks using mass storage mode, where the connected Black Jack appears as a hard disk on your desktop. I was annoyed to see that there is no adapter for the oddball headset jack for wired headsets other than Samsung’s included, are using very poor quality of the earphones. (Heard I have such an adapter will come in the future.) Video in Windows Media Player seemed occasionally jerky, but I’m glad it plays in full screen, unlike on the Motorola Q. SlingPlayer Mobile is not on the work of the Black Jack quite yet, but Sling Media told me they are working on a solution. Interestingly, the BlackJack Cingular Cingular streaming video clips are in RealVideo rather than Windows Media format, as well.

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The phone’s 1.3-megapixel camera takes soft, high-contrast images, but at least the colors are good. Video recordings are nice and big at 320 by 240 and smooth, but the 9-frames-per-second frame rate is quite low.

The Black Jack is 220 MHz Samsung processor runs, as expected, a little faster than the T-Mobile Dash’s 200 MHz processor in video benchmarks. But in contrast to the 400 MHz Cingular 8525, Blackjack has some trouble with multitasking. If you play music over Bluetooth in the background trying to get other applications very slowly, and one hears occasionally appear, clicks and dropouts if you try the same on a Bluetooth headset and surf the Web using Pocket Internet Explorer Talk.

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