Samsung BlackJack is a new Cingular phone
Cingular’s high-speed network goes truly portable with the new Samsung BlackJack, an excellent little handheld for folks looking for a Blackberry-style device with more speed and multimedia features. The Samsung BlackJack is a slim, stylish mobile entertainment and organizational powerhouse. It plays: with Cingular Video and Cingular Music - exclusive TV content and your digital tunes. And it works: with Microsoft® Windows Mobile 5, Mobile Office TM applications, personal and corporate email and attachment support. And it does it all at break-neck 3G speeds. Only from Cingular. Just like T-Mobile’s Dash and Verizon’s Motorola Q, the BlackJack is a Windows Mobile 5.0 Smartphone slab sporting a 320 by 240 screen, a full keyboard and a 1.3-megapixel camera on the back. In many ways, it’s a cross between those two other phones. Like the Dash, it’s a quad-band world phone, it’s black, and it’s almost the exact same size. Like the Q, it uses a high-speed national cellular network rather than Wi-Fi, the keys are long slanted ovals, and it has a handy scroll wheel on the side as well as cursor keys for navigation. At 4.5 by 2.3 by .5 inches and weighing 3.5 ounces, it’s smaller and lighter than both the Dash and the Q.
Included Features
- Microsoft® Windows Mobile 5.0 Edition(TM)
- Cingular Music, Cingular Video and MEdia Net capable
- Mobile versions of Microsoft® Office(TM) applications
- Windows Media Player® 10 Mobile
- Bluetooth 2.0® wireless connectivity
- Simultaneous voice and data capabilities
- Quad-band world phone with dual-band UMTS/HSDPA
- Slim design PDA with full QWERTY keyboard
- 1.3 MP camera with 2x zoom and video
- Microsoft® Direct Push for real-time email delivery
- Mobile Outlook®, Word®, Excel®, PowerPoint®, and PDF support
- Email - Xpress Mail, Good Mobile Messaging, ActiveSync, and more
- Synchronize your desktop and calendar wirelessly
- Hands-free loudspeaker and microphone
- Instant messaging capabilities
- Fast loading full HTML web browser
Benchmark Test Results
Continuous talk time: 3 hours 51 minutes
Video playback time: 8 hours 31 minutes
Tips and Trick
You can adjust the brightness of the screen in Settings.
Pressing and holding the Home button brings up the task manager
pressing and holding the jog dial brings up a list of apps
pressing the power button brings up the quicklist.
Okay for all my current Sling box users, here is a workaround until there is a beta version for this smartphone orginally posted by TriNe0 @ slingboxes web forum (sorry TriNe0 I couldnt wait to share the news)
It seems the issue is that the sling player doesn’t properly support the native resolution of the BlackJack’s screen (320×240) (TriNe0 figured this out because I could see the video when TriNe0 pressed the menu button…). Here’s what you need to do:
1. Launch sling mobile player but do not connect
2. click on Menu > Player Options > Encoding
3. Scroll down, and uncheck “auto resolution mode”
4. Change the video resolution to “160×120″
5. Hit OK…and you’re set!
The downside is that, unless you view in full screen, the size of the image is real small… But watching it in full screen should be fine… and hopefully the picture quality will improve if Sling can get this to work in 320×240…
Hold down message key to turn off backlight on screen.
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