AT&T Leaks Announcement of Samsung Blackjack 3

The good people at GearDiary somehow got their hands on AT&T 2008 Road map which briefly mentions the impending release of the Samsung Blackjack 3.

Samsung Blackjack 3 due in Q4 this year, specs below:

Windows Mobile SP 6.1
Tri-band HSDPA (3.6); Quad-band EDGE
528 MHz processor
128MB RAM/ 256MB ROM
Camera 3 MP
AGPS
VSC
WiFi

Launch Target: late Q4/08

Let me break down the information:

• Windows Mobile SP 6.1 — The latest version of the Windows Mobile OS
• Tri-Band HSDPA (3.6) — Will run on the 3G Network (up to 3.6 Mbps)
• Quad-band EDGE — Will run on the slower but more wide-spread EDGE network (up to 135Kbps)
• 528 MHz processor — Speed of the CPU (The Samsung Blackjack II’s processor speed is 260 MHz)
• 128 RAM/256 ROM — 128 MB of memory on the phone. (ROM amount is irrelevant to the user)
• Camera 3 MP — 3 MegaPixel camera. A 3 MP camera can take a picture up to a resolution of 2048 x 1536, or Print size of 6.5″ x 4.8″ at 320 dpi or 8.5″ x 6.4″ dpi.
• AGPS — Assisted GPS is an enhanced form of GPS; All this means is the phone will have built in GPS.
• VSC — Vertical Service Codes mean the Blackjack 3 will support the dialing of numbers that begin with special characters like * or #.
• WiFi — Wireless networking capabilities.

• Launch Target: late Q4/08 – The launch date will be sometime between the beginning of October 2008 and the end of December 2008 … just in time for the holiday rush!