The Blackberry Bold 9700 & Blackberry 9000 Review

OS 5.0 for the bold 9000?

Rumors are floating around the web that os 5.0 will come available for the Bold 9000… That its one week away.
According to many sources, RIM claimed they’d have it rolled out before the end of 2009, which of course is very very near….

I sure hope that’s true. They’re still selling the device, now in white too.

Its a much needed upgrade and I hope battery life improvements we saw on the Bold 9700 come along with it. But, if it does come out soon for the Bold 9000 I will be doing the upgrade on my spare as it’d be nice to see how it runs on it compared to how it runs on the Bold 9700…
What about you? Will you do the update if RIM rolls out OS 5.0 to the Bold 9000?

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Daniel J Deyette

Blackberry Bold 9700 Battery Life

When I first got this thing, it came pre-charged with what appeared to be a full battery. Quickly on the first day, it had me worried when I recieved it at 5pm and it was near dead by 10PM. That night, I gave it a charge for 7 hours (about as much sleep as I ever get!!).

The next day, same thing, lucky to get a full 8 hour day out of it and I wasn’t talking on the phone very much.

On day three, I started hunting the web… Looking for “battery conditioning” and Bold 9700 battery tips and all kinds of junk, thinking I must have got a lemon or maybe didn’t charge it for long enough? I mean how long are you supposed to charge a new blackberry bold 9700 for??

Answer.. From all my research – and I think you’ll be surprised!

The Bold 9700 charges up in around 45 minutes and should last up to 16+ hours after that. So it wasn’t that I hadn’t properly conditioned the battery or anything like that…

* I wasn’t running an animated theme at the time…
* I had Viigo and email and Gmail but not much else auto-updating.
* I didn’t chat long on the phone
* I Didn’t use the camera much – maybe 2 pictures.

But for some strange reason on day 3-5 it started lasting longer and LONGER… Now, I’ve had days where I’ve done multiple conference calls from my car lasting an hour a piece on speakerphone no less and still had 3 out of 5 bars left at 10pm that night… OH and I took videos and texted, and emailed and browsed and and and…

So relax, before you return it, give it 3-5 days.. It may clear up after all.

All the best, Richard