Milwauke Journal Sentinel's Review of The Blackjack

Nice review. I am still waiting for one.

 

Thanks for the link Charylee, I do agree the number keys could have been either a brighter silver or other color, but other then that the more I see & hear about it, the more I am thinking about getting one. That is the day I decide to migrate over.

 

Nice numbers. The one thing that deters me is the Voce Dial over BT, I some what gave up my BB 8700c becuase of that ( I miss the full querty Keyboard and the larger sceen). As to the keys, I think this is an issue with ever device, like me now with the pearl I still have to look a bit more here and there as I tend to foget what I am doing and think that I am using my 8700. But if history speaks for itself should only be a day or two to get used to it.

 

It's good they are offering the extended battery now, I am like you & always need a good charged phone & usually keep a spare battery with me. I needed it the other night at a fire scene & glad I had it.

As for needing the Data plan, yeah I know I would have to spend more money with them for it, and that is a deterent as well, but hopefully when I have to migrate over the plans may get a little cheaper or we will get our raise's.

As for a history of owning phones other don't want or have, You are more adventurous then some of us and it's very helpful to see your feedback on some future toys for the rest of us.

 

Something tells me it's not that big of a deal with Nokia 6800, 6820, 6822 & E70. The biggest problem of E70 (IMHO) is that it's only tri-band GSM and single-band WCDMA.

 

yeah, i think most of us know that, :browani:

 

i have to agree with fire, you pave the way for some of us. i know ill be getting the bj sooner or later, and im just waiting on charlyee to convince me that i cait do with out it, another minnett.:loony:

 

as an ole boy scout, the motto be prepared comes to mind.:loony: and i have so many, i cait remember where they all are.:wink:

seriously im looking for my first cell phone, it was with southwestern bell moblity, a analog moto, grey, in like new condition. oh and it was a flip phone, cost me a penny. they had a great promo, going on at jackie cooper.:loony:

 

The Nokia E61/E62 has done pretty well with a very radically different coloring of the number keys, although probably not anywhere near the ease of a full foldout one.

 

It certainly takes some getting used to -- I literally had to look up every number before I pressed it when I was entering that code you gave me

 

I went to pick up the blackjack and my friend refused to sell it to me. No matter what he asked that I wait a week or two. In any manner going to your original (other thread) it seems that Cingular adjusted their system to have Blackjack qualify for the Mediamax and there should be no charges for media net and one no longer needs the PDA package, which is good and that means that Cingular got their act together. But he said that the same will not work for the E62 which by the way has a very slow UI and many recomended going witht eh E61 software on it instead. I jsut don't understand why Cingular just shut of the Wifi on it and I do understand why they decided not to have it as 3G as Nokia did not have the US 3G in it and just blocked the int'l one.

 

Well since he used it for a few weeks (he is the store manager) and she knows what I require he said no for that. He actualy advised me to go for 8525 instead as it will serve me better because of my travel and to also wait as the new Blackberry 8800 is to be released by end of month. He did say a lot of good things about it but he thinks for my use I would be wasting my money on it.

 

I know a guy with an E62 and he said E61 software is more than likely going to brick the E62 (we have spent a lovely two hours reviving his phone after he flashed it with Chinese E62 firmware and tried to go back to unbranded US). The hardware is very different (E62 is at least two chips short -- my guess is there go your WiFi and 3G).

 

Nice review Charlyee, thanks for sharing and I am glad you are still smitten over your crappy Samsung I mean Blackjack. :lmao:

 

Charlyee,

Have you ever had a PDA/Smartphone with a touchscreen?

I loved the Motorola Q when I first got it because it was pretty darn cool, but the lack of a touchscreen/stylus sort of lessened my enthusiasm for it. I still love the phone, but it's missing the one thing that, for me, would make it ideal.

I just got the T-Mobile MDA and wondered how I ever lived without a touchscreen PDA phone. I feel like I've died and gone to mobile heaven..:googlyeye

I've heard good things about the BlackJack, but because it's a Samsung, that nixes it for me, plus I've grown to dislike Windows Mobile 5, though I can see that you love it. Go fig???

 

No need for ways to be parted...

I know what you mean about cleaning the screen. I guess the functionality of the touchscreen works better for me than simple d-pad navigation. I probably haven't learned enough of what the Moto Q's true functionality could be. The same goes for WM5. It, for some reason, seems more complicated to do certain task than on the Windows Pocked PC version on my MDA. The Q is my first PDA, so I'm pretty new to this arena.

Such is the life for the mobile phone addict I am...:loony: :browani:

 

Now, Now I do think it's adventurous & your defenetly not stupid, personally I wish I could afford to buy toys like you do (I am jealous if you didn't figure it out yet ).

So they are coming with the extended battery only? Guess it would make sense if I were to spring for the phone I would get a spare one as well. I know I need to find a spare for my Nextel, I get 10-14 hours and it goes down hard. Either that or a car charger, but it's kind of hard to go into a building attached to the car adaptor, the cords aren't long enough. :biggrin: