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Since purchasing the Samsung Blackjack in September there are a couple things that have cropped up. The battery life, as suggested on many other sites is finally coming to lite. I get about a day on the standard battery. With waking up at 7am the phone is on my side from then on. It will last me till 7pm. With email and TXT messages coming in all day it drains the battery significantly. Now the extended battery lasts me a full 24 hours of calling TXT messaging and emailing. Battery life is not on my good list. I thought it would last a little longer than 24 hours.

Though tethering to my laptop is much easier due to an application called internet sharing that is supplied with a stock phone. In the windows directory there is a application named IntShrUI. If you launch this you are greeted with a Internet sharing Screen. There is a connection type but I have not tested bluetooth. Hit the connect button and plug into your laptop, give it about 10 seconds and your on the net. You can also make a shortcut in your start menu for this. My tether speed is about 200k down and 56k up.

Something that totally boggles my mind is the phones inability to charge from the cable supplied. It will charge from the PC when Synced, and the external charger, but when it is actually plugged into the phone itself it just reboots and doesnt charge. It must be a setting somewhere but I cant find it. If anyone knows how to fix this I would love to post it.

Overall the phone quality is great. Voice calls are crystal clear. I still only have Edge network status where I live, but it is okay for what I do. All in all the phone still holds a spot in my pocket till I can afford to buy something else.