Pocketnow.com has just finished up a spate of articles pitting the Motorola Q9h against the BlackJack II (Samsung Jack if you're nasty). Go on and take a look at Brandon's opinions (including some nice videos), then come on back and take a look at mine.

These two devices are particularly well-suited to a head-to-head, both seemingly have identical feature sets. Once you move past a spec listing, though, and actually use the device day to day, you'll find that it's the little things that get ya. I initially took a look at the BlackJack II and the Q9h and saw that both phones share:

• Windows Mobile 6 Standard
• HSDPA
• GPS
• 240x320 Screen
• TI OMAP 2420 Processor (more on that in a bit)
• 256mb ROM, around 100mb RAM

You look at the above and you think - “These are basically identical phones. Obviously I want the one with the better form factor and the better battery life.” That, my friends, would be the BlackJack II. Done, right? Not so much - read on to find out why.

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We earlier mentioned the “must-install” app for the BlackJack, the hack to assign GPS to COM4. There was another one for the Q9h (the BlackJack version killed connectivity on my Q9h - beware!), but Paul of MoDaCo has discovered a better solution all around. The solution, a GPS config utility, just like your big brothers on WM Pro devices get:

It turns out that a GPSID configuration utility that exactly mirrors the Pocket PC version is nestling away in the 'Tools' directory of the Windows Mobile 6 Standard SDK Refresh! If you're a BlackJack II owner, a Motorola Q9H owner or basically anyone wanting to configure GPS on a Smartphone, then you NEED this utility! - MoDaCo

So it's good news and bad news. Bad news first: “you NEED this utility,” as in “the carriers are still locking down features and/or Windows Mobile has convoluted GPS implementation.” Good news: we can fix it, we have the technology. Go get it!