BlackBerry Battery in General

It is a well-known fact that the BlackBerry Bold 9930 is probably the best BlackBerry mobile phone so far, amalgamating the favourite and spacious keyboard of the legendary Bold 9000 series with an attractive and stylish design, glass touch screen, optical track-pad, stainless steel band, and amazing angles that make the build both trendy and retro simultaneously. Nevertheless, as close to ideal as the Bold 9900 series is, the main shortcoming of the phone is its regular BlackBerry battery life, which is weak so to speak, and definitely, if you are a BlackBerry aficionado, regretting to put gently as RIM’s mobile phones have legendarily known to push on.


Optimistically, this is just a short-term predicament, and one that may be rectified with a firmware update. In ten days or so of the BlackBerry battery usage, you will not be able to get more than 6 hours out of phone with two push email accounts, Facebook and Twitter using RIM’s default set-up, and a Google Voice application. On average, the BlackBerry battery allows for a few phone calls, totalling no more than 30 minutes each, and IM was handled via RIM’s regular BBM client with a few BBM personal contacts, each sending and receiving on average about 10 messages.




Old BlackBerry Battery versions

Knowing that older BlackBerry phones can last a whole day and a half or even two whole days with the usage, it seems like the BlackBerry battery compromise that RIM made so as to attain a willowy construction is absolutely intolerable given the phone’s enterprise-centric nature. Desk clerks should be all right if they (re)charge the BlackBerry battery while it is standing on their tables, but for business users who travel or are in the field, the phone needs a lot more sturdiness, and that is something that a software upgrade might help.


Part of the reason is that RIM had used a slimmer BlackBerry battery in the Bold 9900/9930 than in foregoing version Bold/Torch phones. The Bold 9930 has a rather weak 1230mAh BlackBerry battery compared to the Bold 9650′s 1400mAh BlackBerry battery. The reason for this is that RIM claims that the latest BlackBerry 7 OS is a lot more effective than previous BlackBerry operating Systems. Nevertheless, there is also a lot more going on with the latest Bold 9900 series, incorporating a swifter processor and higher resolution screen that aid to draw down the BlackBerry battery.

 

One reason that that a software upgrade may aid with the BlackBerry battery life is that GSM BlackBerry owners as well as Sprint’s CDMA BlackBerry 9930 owners have said that BlackBerry life has not been a problem for them, which is peculiar. Bearing in mind that Sprint’s and Verizon’s version sport the same world-phone radios, it is strange that Sprint’s model, at least as users say, is getting sturdy BlackBerry battery performance compared to Verizon 9930. Until the BlackBerry battery life clears up, the Bold 9930 almost feels like it is two steps forward and one main step backward from the Bold 9000 where form wins function.