iPhone Vs. BlackJack II

Apple iPhone vs. BlackJack II
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Sleek and arriving in two colors, black and burgundy, the new Samsung BlackJack II yet to be released in the North American market is an improvement to the first Blackjack smartphone with a longer lasting Lithium battery. Thin, lightweight, with a QWERTY keyboard, jog wheel, and running Microsoft Windows Mobile 6.0, the Samsung BlackJack II features Bluetooth 2.0 WiFi and supports GSM 850, 900,1800 and 1900.

The BlackJack II like the Apple iPhone has AT&T as its service provider. The main advantage of the new BlackJack II is its ability to handle EDGE but also GPRS, UMTS, and HSDPA cellular enhancement protocols.

While the new BlackJack II offers a digital Windows Media player and 2.0 camera, it is no match for the Apple iPhone's multimedia capabilities with its iPod and associated iTunes software, music store, photo albums, and camera. With a screen resolution of 320 x 240 pixels, the BlackJack II offers greater photo quality than previous models and many PDAs on the market. It however still does not offer the brightness or sharpness of the iPhone, which has a screen resolution of 320 x 480 pixels at 160 ppi and easy multi-touch sensing. The BlackJack II lacks the strong visual appeal, crisp clarity, and intuitive interface of the iPhone as well as its photo editing software. The BlackJack II also does not have the iPhone's ability to switch from landscape to portrait mode. While the BlackJack II is a dramatic improvement in comparison to similar models, it still requires careful precise fingers tapping a small keyboard unlike the iPhone's easy touch screen interface.

To its credit, the new BlackJack II features a pocket version of all the Microsoft Office applications in popular use with Windows Mobile 6.0. You can browse the web, write emails, take photographs, and listen to music all in one device. However, unlike the iPhone, which works intuitively, fading out music when you have an incoming call, the BlackJack II does not offer the same ease of use. The BlackJack II allows for multimedia messages (MMS) as well as POP3 and IMAP4 email protocols, as well as SMS text messaging.

Like the iPhone, the BlackJack II has all the typical features of a cellular phone such as call waiting, forwarding, caller ID, call hold, call history and voicemail. However, it lacks the unique capabilities of the iPhone such as visual voicemail and conference calling.

One of the primary advantages of the BlackJack II over the Apple iPhone is its GPS capabilities and GSM quad-band and HSDPA dual-band technologies for communication around the globe.

The BlackJack II is definitely a functional, lightweight, and convenient multimedia device that packs a punch. While its competitive value against the iPhone is debatable, this latest phone by Samsung definitely improves upon previous handhelds in the PDA market, revealing how technologies in this field continue to improve, getting faster, lighter, and offering more features with each new product release.