Rogers in Canada Gets Samsung Jack, AKA BlackJack II

Our neighbors to the north are getting the BlackJack II (priced at $299.99 on a 3 year contract, $399 without. Canadian dollars, natch). However, they're not calling it the BlackJack II, they're just calling it the “Samsung Jack.” Why's that? We don't know for sure, but we suspect that it's related to the fact that Canada is the home turf for Research in Motion, who settled a suit with Samsung over the BlackJack name just over a year ago. We're not going to say that suing Samsung over using the word “Black” in a device name is a sign of fear, because it looks like it's Rogers/Samsung who are the nervous ones here.

Or maybe it's not so nefarious as all that, maybe Samsung is taking a page out of HTC's branding book, the page titled “Just call it whatever the heck you feel like.”

via Smartphone Thoughts