Apparently the Research In Motion BlackBerry Bold 9700 smartphone has some “freak’n amazing” battery life according to Kevin over at Crackberry who has apparently been going round asking everyone he comes across with a BlackBerry Bold 9700 “So how about that battery life on the BlackBerry Bold 9700?”
He’s not too sure what Research In Motion have done short of waved a magic wand in the developer labs or even stuck moon isotopes under the battery cover, or even rewrote and optimised the radio stack, but he says whatever RIM did is has worked.
Over the past few years RIM has crammed features into the BlackBerry which has taken a toll on battery life, but apparently the BlackBerry Bold 9700 has changed that and he says delivers an easy two days of life.
The screen capture is of his Rogers BlackBerry Bold 9700 after exactly 24 hours of steady use and this morning he still had over “half the juice” left whereas his original BlackBerry Bold 900 would have hit yellow bars; so it does look like RIM have solved the battery life problem, now is there anyone who has a BlackBerry Bold 9700 who can confirm this out there?
Yo, you had a few typo’s, but nice battery life review. But in my experience Blackberry has always had good battery life, especially the first Curve from T-Mo. From wat I’m hearing now it seems like it’s great now. Looking forward to seeing it for myself, I’ll be back to let you know.
The 9700 is better than the classic Bold by a stretch.
Same bright screen etc so you would think the battery drain woud still be the same, right?
But no it is pretty much sorted. Except, well is it just me but 2 days of phone life is still pretty minimal. Csll me greedy but I want the phone to make it through the weekend without any worries.
The answer is to use a little app called autostandby it sorted mine out a treat now I get 3-4 days straight on the Bold2.
More like it, right?
Battery life on the 9700 is VERY good. After TWO FULL DAYS of almost non-stop use, browsing the web, navigating across town with the gps, tethering via bluetooth, using the UMA via wifi, playing music, talking on the phone, typing up and reading emails, shooting video, and more, I still have 25% of the battery life remaining.
My old blackberry, an 8900, would have drained its battery within a single day with this type of activity.
I think the main factor in this dramatic improvement of battery life is taking the higher-capacity battery of the old Bold, and marrying it with the less power-hungry/smaller screen comparable to the smaller Curve series which usually have smaller batteries.
In fact, if you hold the new 9700 next to an 8900, the 9700 feels a lot heavier (some call it sturdier) because of the enormous battery supporting that smaller screen.
I’m not sure why the improvement in battery life would be a mystery to anyone considering the factors mentioned, but the better battery life sure is NICE!
Hi I have been reading your comments and wondered how you got the phone to run for two days with non stop use on a previous thread.
I have just bought the 9700 and its a great phone but the battery life is pretty poor and i am lucky to get 24hrs even on standby..
I am on bes and due to the break haven’t been using it but it still drains quickly which is a worry.
I also set it to auto switch on and off at night and went to bed last night at 12 with half the bar left, when I woke this morning it was back on with orange bar.
Any comments would be appreciated as i am worried the battery may have a fault
I have had my BB Bold 9700 for less than 3 weeks and the battery performance is poor. Drain quickly even on stand by.
I have the same problem. My battery life is very short. I’m very upset. What should I do? Buying new battery? Or maybe we doing something wrong? I suppose that some application stay on background and waste energy. If somebody knows how to check and close background applications pleas help us. I beginning to hate my first ( and if the problem will continue, last) Blackberry device!!!
i’ve had my bold 9700 for almost 2 months now, and I am not getting anywhere near 2 days. i close all my applications after using them, i have wifi and blue tooth turned off, i use my phone for bbm and texting mostly. my phone drops to about 50% within 6 hours.
i agree the battery life is poor but the phone is brilliant - iv always found blackberrys have limited battery life - but having said that - i purchased the nokia n71 which has similiar features - however it seems like nokia also suffer from terrible battery life - I guess these modern technology and applications consume more energy where as when you had a simple phone battery life seemed to last a lot longer…