This is just a short post to tell you how great the Samsung SGH-i600 Blackjack phone is when it comes to mobile connectivity.

As mentioned before, this phone packs a punch when it comes to the various connectivity options such as infrared, bluetooth, wifi, GPRS, HSDPA etc. Depending on your network coverage at the time, the various 3G/WAP options are selected automatically.

This obviously means that you can browse the internet, read email etc. on the go with the phone. However, I have found out this phone excels when used as a data modem. Simply plug in the data cable (or use bluetooth) to your laptop, fire up the Internet connection sharing application on the phone and viola, instant fast internet connection.

Sitting in Cape Town International the little Samsung i600 is connecting via 3G/HSDPA and the connection speed was clocked at 349Kbps. Not bad.

Perfect for quickly updating Facebook, reading some email and writing a blog post or two.

I'm very happy, and I know some other people I spoke with in the last week are impressed with the connection speeds too.