The BlackJack II was officially announced today by Microsoft CEO Steve Ballmer at the CTIA 2007 in San Francisco. The new 3G Smartphone will have alot of new stuff and will be available at the end of the year for $149.99, of coarse with the stick up of a 2-year contract agreement with AT&T. The official spec looks like this:
• AT&T Video Share, the first service in the US that enables users to share live video over the wireless phones while on a voice call. BlackJack II is the first AT&T business-oriented smart device to feature Video Share.
• Built-in GPS, Support for location-based applications such as TeleNav GPS Navigator™.
• Global phone capabilities. Tri-band 3G UMTS/HSDPA and Quad-band EDGE/GPRS technology takes advantage of AT&T's industry-leading international wireless footprint for access to e-mail, the Web and other data applications in more than 135 countries—including Japan, South Korea and China—and customers can make or receive phone calls in more than 190 countries.
• An RSS Reader Client to compile syndicated Web content in a single location for easy viewing.
• Significant improvement in the standard battery capacity to get you through the day.
• A 2.0-megapixel camera with video-capture capabilities.
Increased standard memory.
• A louder and clearer speakerphone.
A big thanks to Gizmodo for this information. [AT&T]
3 comments:
OK. Really tempted to update from my BlackJack Beta. Oops, I meant Blackjack 1. I definitely want to see some hands on and if anyone sees a question and answer anywhere, let me know. There are a few features that were omitted that I'd like to see enabled.
The battery thing will be key. It was so bad under the first Blackjack that they started sending 2 batteries with all new orders.
Actually it always came with 2 batteries, but they started giving people the extended battery on rebate which lasted longer than the other 2 combined. So most people have 3 batteries. It does come in handy since each one has a little charger case that comes with it. Just charge em up and put in your case and on trips you have 2 spares.
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