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hey what's up guys John rettinger here with a review for you of the samsung jack for ATT wireless this is the spiritual successor to the samsung blackjack two and the blackjack that preceded it so this will run you ninety nine dollars on AT&T after rebates and two-year contract so let's jump right into the review this is a phone and it has to make good phone calls and this is one area where the jack really did not shine it was dropping calls left and right with full 3g signals I thought maybe it might be an AT&T network issue so I've swapped sim cards and tried in two other phones called exactly the same number in exactly the same place and I had great call quality with no dropped calls so I think the cell radio in the samsung jack may not be the best or at least in this unit wasn't the strongest so definitely be wary it's not only I we have a decided there are a lot of pauses about the device I want to talk about the first is the onscreen qwerty keyboard as you can see the keys are all very close together with no space in between like you might find on the samsung epix for example with the space between the keys or even on a blackberry curve it's very similar in fact to the blackberry bold the keys are large have rounded edges and I had no problem getting used to typing really after just about 20 minutes of use I was going with probably about ninety percent accuracy which I think as close as you can get on a device with a qwerty keyboard like this you're never going to have full accuracy of a standard keyboard the keyboard really is one strong point of the device I should mention though that since there's no space between the keys it's laid with just a single sheet the keys actually are one entire piece of plastic so if you push in the middle you can't see a little bit of give it was a tiny bit disconcerting but not bad is something to keep in mind so we're talking about that let's go ahead to build quality the device both quality i think is fantastic on the samsung jack it feels sturdy it feels solid I never felt like I was going to break it or drop it the chrome accents on the back and sides I think add a little bit of class and make it look like a business device the 3.2 megapixel camera is located right in the middle and I'd like the location of it's got a really large speaker grill above it and it just exudes confidence I think it's a very strong looking device I don't think the blackjack two had the best build quality always looked a little bit cheap to me I think Samsung actually fixed that with this device so what we're on build called it let's go ahead and talk about speaker strength the speaker foot on this is absolutely fantastic it's actually probably one of the best give your phones I've ever used it is very loud so loud in fact you can use it almost as a conference line if you're on a conference call so the Samsung included something very interesting with this device they included this super scrolling so if you're scrolling down a webpage or scrolling down anything you hold down a down but it will scroll actually very clean this super scrolling did work very nice we want to get from the top of the page down at the bottom you can do it with a lot of ease I've always been a big fan of windows mobile 6.1 standard so again non-touch hernan and is a great implementation here it's got a lightning fast over 500 megahertz processor which really I didn't feel any lag at all it's got plenty of wrong plenty of ram and this thing is probably one of the quicker windows mobile 6.1 standard devices that I've used they really can be memory hog so it was quite nice to see this thing hauling through so one other thing that I want to talk about I've been testing this device while I'm testing the curve 8900 for 18 teen even just holding the two next to each other it is very apparent that the screen on the jack is much lower resolution the jack has a 320 x 240 resolution whereas the curve has it 480 x 360 and after you look at a higher risk read and then look back that Jack it can't help but look a little bit washed out so I'm going to keep in mind if you're not going to be having another phone next to it you're not going to notice it but it was something that sort of started to bother me as I was looking at other phones micro SD card slot is external which I definitely like the call volume on this is actually quite loud not easy speaker the internal microphone and speaker was actually very loud I could hear people great when I wasn't dropping calls people on the other end to hear me and I could hear them without any white noise recording I will say though that the 3g radio was very strong here I was able to get a strong 3d saying I might all would not always been able to make the call out but the signal strength is actually much stronger on this than it was on the iphone for example as far as 3g is concerned it's definitely something to keep in mind overall I did really like the jack but I couldn't get over the call quality and the drop calls was made it almost useless for me simply something to keep in mind it may have just been this unit I recommend going to your local ATT store interested in this device making a couple tests phone calls and trying it out there like I said it very well could have been the test voice that I was sent samsung generally has very good call quality so I'm willing to give them the benefit of the doubt at the end of this case and assume it was a bum phone so guys in conclusion on a scale from one to five I get the samsung jack a very solid three and a half with the only knock coming from the very regular drop calls taking that out of the equation assuming that wasn't a problem auto giving this a very very solid for Cal Poly when it worked was great battery life is fantastic you'll easily get two days or up to 15 on standby it's got a really hefty battery in it Wi-Fi signal strength was strong GPS was very quick to walk onto the satellites everything worked as advertised with the one exception so if you're in the market for a windows mobile standard device I think this really is a good choice samsung 18g claims to be upgradeable to 6.5 when that's available but they're very slow in ensuring upgrade so I wouldn't hold your breath for a 6 6.5 update live with 6.1 it actually works very well on this phone so guys this was a review for you and be samsung jack hope you enjoyed for exclusive content be sure to follow me on twitter twitter.com / john for lakers i'll see you guys next video buh-bye