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):

After talking to AT&T they agreed to send me a different model phone because of the constant problems I have been having with this phone.Aside from all those issue's, the phone itself is a headache when it actually "works". I have checked this by quickly typing 3 letter and finding only 2 show up, so its not just that I am bad at texting.A friend of mine has this phone and has had much the same experience as me. I again exchanged the phone to encounter the same problem as before where I was unable to make calls. I strongly recommend you find another phone if you are considering this one, it is not worth the trouble.

This can be very frustrating if you are a fast typer, which is easy on a full keyboard, because you type out a long text or email, then when you proof read it you realize that every other word is misspelled because the phone didn't add random letters. This phone has been constant a headache. He, like me, loved this phone at first. And no, it was not AT&T's service to blame because when I used an old phone while waiting for a replacement unit it worked fine. To date, this is my 4th Blackjack II since I have had to exchange it with AT&T under the warranty 3 times. About 6 months after I got it all of my ring tones, including the ones that come on the phone, became corrupted and I had to restore my phone to factory settings (apparently a common issue with the BJII). The next phone I got had the microphone break after only 1 week of use. When I lose signal, like in an elevator, I usually have to turn my phone on and off to regain signal even up to 30 minutes after losing signal.

The, after about a month the phone became more and more of a headache. I bought this phone brand new almost exactly one year ago. Next, I would have between 3-5 signal bars of service and the phone would not make calls, receive call, or send or receive texts. When texting or writing an email often times the phone will skip a letter that you did actually type.

My last phone was a very simple, inexpensive Nokia that I had for 5 years.At first I was really pleased with all the features this phone has and I like the way the phone looks. Pictures would come out blurry a lot, especially in medium to low light.One thing I didn't like was that the phone got really hot when I would talk for more than five or ten minutes.

I think for my next phone I will go for something more reliable, even if it's at the cost of fewer features. Another thing is that the quality of the sound seemed worse than that of my old Nokia.Lastly, and most importantly, is that after about three months the phone just stopped working.

I don't know if this is normal for smart phones, but it made talking so uncomfortable that I would have to use a headset. I dropped the phone a few times from short distances while it had a case on, but my old phone took much worse abuse and has never had a problem for over five years.

First of all, this was my first smart phone. The camera was pretty good, although it wasn't as good as I had hoped from using friends' phones to take pictures before.

Since the phone was refurbished, it isn't under warranty anymore, so there's not much I can do.

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. 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. The problem I had with this phone is the ill conceived idea of the power port being the interface for music and computer connectivity. They say it is Beyond economical repair and send your unrepaired phone back to you.

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. 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. 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. 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. The telephone is a piece of junk. I have had this phone since last October with ATT service. It has weird things happen, such as tonight when it erased all of my calendar (one of the major reasons I bought it). I have called Samsung to try to report this, but the automated answering service just hangs up.

The Opera Mini Java browser can also be easily installed and can view other sites that the default IE browser has problems. 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. 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. 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. I will accept this replacement since it still under warranty but once it any shows further signs of defects, I am returning this phone and will never buy another Samsung product again. 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.

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. You are dead in the water.Finally, the most important and basic feature was dialing using the keypad. Especially when other phones just require a simple touch of a button and not multiple functions to accomplish such a simple task. This can be a minor inconvenience but once you get the hang of the keypad it is easily overlooked.*UPDATE, 8/3/2009:I am now on my third Blackjack 2 in less than 12 months and second replacement in less than 60 days. The power button no longer functioned and the phone could not even be turned on. 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. The luxury to occasionally view Youtube videos is nice but the weak battery drains fast also when using the camera to record video. The battery is the number one problem with this phone.

While sound quality for streaming radio is clear, MP3's saved on the phone is scratchy and almost unlistenable. 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. As a result, I found it difficult dialing a number quickly without saving it first. The disadvantage of the Opera Mini browser however is the inability to view streaming videos from Youtube. This is problematic because you have to deal with the delays in shipping. You become so used to fast DSL connections making the transition is a lot harder than it seems. Another thing that I noticed is the inability to load some sites that used outdated HTML frames script.

Turning off 3G speed helps the battery but single G is equivalent to dialup speeds. Even sent to the largest sized text, some sites still show tiny letters. Reading on the small screen with extremely small font sized is also a burden to deal with. 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.

I could browse these sites easily on my previous phone but after making the upgrade, I can no longer access them. Try and type in the middle of loading and chances are you will make a mistake in you're entry. 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. Typing in text boxes is hit or miss depending on how fast the site loads.

Having to press and hold the Fn key every time to input a number can be somewhat inconvenient. This was a brand new phone. Imagine waiting on a battery to arrive in a week and not having to access work or personal contacts. Cheap, shoddy construction cannot be forgiven for a product that arrives new, out of the box. 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. 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.

It also slows down the phone and makes it extremely tiresome to use. 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. I found the Windows software to connect to your laptop to be easy to use. Also the RSS Reader is great for regular updates from news sites. 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. The battery can't be easily obtained in store at any brick and mortar AT&T Wireless location and has to be ordered online. Turning off images using a toggle or hot key would have been nice rather than having to press the right button every time. I switched to the Blackjack 2 last summer after owning a very simple LG phone for 3 years. The IE browser works a fair amount of time but high graphic intensive sites hunkers down the phone and makes it very slow.

The inferior sound quality also applies to Youtube videos and the various "streaming TV" services that are offered on a pay-per-view basis.