When the world found out that RIM was using the same Bold 9000 batteries on the Bold 9700, it caused many sad faces.  The Bold 9000 has terrible battery life as you would always have to have a charger handy throughout the day.  So far, the BlackBerry Bold 9700 has shown superb battery life as personally I haven’t had to charge in the middle of the day as it would be required with a 9000.

Just to prove it, lets go through what’s running on it.  We have SocialScope, TweetGenius, UberTwitter running continuously in the background.  WiFi stays on all day of course.  While all of these were running, we used AT&T Navigator for about an hour and a half two times throughout the day.  In addition, about 85 minutes were spoken, about 60 text messages sent out and received, emails from 4 accounts coming in, and BlackBerry Messenger going off all day, we had 65% of battery life by midnight.

Own a BlackBerry Bold 9700?  Tell us about your experience!

-by Otoniel Bruno

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