Gadgetory

hey guys it's brandon minimun from pocketnow.com and this is part one of the video showdown between the q 9 global on the blackjack two both on the AT&T network both very similar devices in the same kind of price range but there's going to be one true winner at the end of this first let's compare the devices the q9 is definitely thicker by thicker I mean wider so if we kind of stack them this way you can see that the q9 is actually a quarter of an inch maybe even a half of an inch wider and a little bit taller they're about the same thickness but that's deceiving let me show you why I'm going to take out the battery of the blackjack to the massive battery it's 1700 milliamp hours it's huge and right now I actually have the standard battery in the queue 9 and the standard battery is pretty small it's only 1130 milliamp hours now let's see what happens to the thickness when we put in the massive extended battery on the q 9 this is 1800 milliamp hours even bigger than the blackjack and so it slides in like so and then it comes with another cover that you can place on here Wow and it should snap into place here looks like it's stuck okay we finally got the cover on mm-hmm now it's quite a different story between the thickness of the blackjack two compared to the q nine whoops wrong back here we go now it's the blackjack two is definitely the winner here in keeping its thinness with a huge battery so if you're worried about the size of your device the q9 is absolutely bigger if we flip over to the back and you can see the all of my fingerprints here on the q9 are on the blackjack two I should say and the q9 has a rubbery coating on the back and it feels really good in your hand when you're typing because it doesn't feel like the device is going to slip out of your hands because it's really smooth on the back both of these have stereo speaker phones so down here there are two speakers and up here there two speakers the cameras are both placed at the same place right at the top of the phone although the q 9 has a flash that goes on constantly if you turn it on rather than flashing when you take the picture the blackjack 2 does not have a flash so let's go to each device and take a look around the entire going to clean it off a little bit so many fingerprints and take a look at the entire entire device here on the front we have several dedicated hardware buttons on the keyboard one for email 14 camera here for silent mode the black check one also had these buttons although they've added a few so here's cingular video I'll never use that here's another one for AT&T s homepage I'll never use that either and you can't change the function of any of these buttons and we can see that the the number buttons are clustered in one area rather than being spread apart as with the original blackjack and here we have a rotary thumb wheel in the front instead of one on the side these buttons to our very fingerprint prone they are the same layout that you would find on the original blackjack the d-pad is much bigger thankfully if you had a blackjack one you know that the d-pad was very difficult to press because it was so tiny you would often miss press it when you went to go and hit one of the soft keys so that's good turning over to the side we have a slot for a proprietary Jack a volume up and down button nothing on the bottom on the other side is a slot for the microSD card these these flaps by the way are more resilient than they were on the original black check so I don't anticipate these falling off and a power button at the top on the cue 9 of course we have the fantastic keyboard much larger than the blackjack 2 we have some dedicated hardware buttons two on the bottom I love this this is a shortcut to your speakerphone so instead of having to hold hold in the the green button for two seconds you can just press this I found that to be a very big convenience you have a shortcut to the camera button music application and some other things over here for phone book and calendar this is absolutely unnecessary and I wish I could change the function of this this also takes you to the ATT home page again something I would probably never use because there's nothing there that's useful to me turning over to the side we have another proprietary jack but Motorola is smart they give you a converter jack that converts to mini-usb very nice and further they give you a converter jack to a 3.5 millimeter headphone jack so that you don't have to use proprietary headphones as you do with the black jack the motorola was thinking there on the bottom we have an ATT branding on the other side we don't have a scroll wheel if you've noticed that this isn't a scroll wheel this is actually the volume up and down button but you can use it to scroll through pages and it goes kind of slow so I really wish this had a scroll wheel here's a back button and a select button on the top we have nothing I'm not sure what that is it looks to be possibly a a hole for your for a lanyard so you know doesn't fall off when you're holding it and that is the q9 so to wrap up part 1 here I want to choose a winner which phone has the best hardware based on basically an aesthetic standpoint and the answer is the Black Jack to its sleeker it's sexier without the need to to make the back larger by adding an extended battery because it comes with the extended battery it's not as wide so it feels better in your pocket and it feels better in the hand it really does as you'll find out soon the keyboard on the q 9 is far superior to that of the blackjack two but you can't have everything right I just wish that they had used a different coding on on the blackjack 2 because as you can see it gets dirty quite fast and you may want to carry one of these around with you to keep it clean although sometimes that doesn't even work alright that's part one see you soon