The Importance of Battery Life on the BlackBerry Storm Mobile Phone
Tags: battery life, BlackBerry Storm, BlackBerry Storm FeaturesAfter months (and for some real eager-beavers maybe even years) of unprecedented hype surrounding the momentous launch of Apple’s iPhone, the reviews came in thick and fast from people all over the world who had their hands on one. People praised the first-of-its-kind screen, sleek appearance, easy-to-use user interface, free applications and YouTube quality. Sure, there were things to brag to your mates about at the pub after work in a typical session of gadget show and tell. But with all that bragging and internet exploring, frantically waving its ‘spectacular’ features around to anyone who’d listen – users were often left with one big fundamental problem – the phone’s dwindling battery life.
So not only were people displeased with missing functions such as simple SMS delivery reports or being able to assign a new tone to emails, the lack of flash or video and substandard camera – but crucially, they also had a limited time in which to enjoy the functions they did like!
Will the makers of the BlackBerry Storm have covered this big problem off with their instalment soon to hit the market?
Battery Life & the BlackBerry Storm
Reports suggest that the battery life of the Storm 3G is about 350 hours in stand-by mode with about 5 hours of talk-time. The BlackBerry Storm runs on a 624MHz processor (as did its predecessor - the Bold). The processor has enough fire power to handle the huge number of multimedia applications as well its everyday functions. Importantly, the fast processor has apparently been supplemented with a significantly improved battery life.
If this proves to be correct, it could mean that suggestions iPhone users would have to carry piggyback batteries to sustain the phone’s power over a day should not be the case for BlackBerry Storm users. This will save time, money, pocket space and the embarrassment users could face at gadget show and tell of an evening!
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Comment….my bb storm has very poor battery life i have only been using it for a couple of calls a day and am yet to get a full working day out of a battery never had this issue with any nokia !!!!!.
December 15th, 2008 10:18 pmComment…..crackin fone top quality only problem is the freakin battery. drains horendously quickly
December 18th, 2008 1:20 amComment…..Its a touch screen folks, it uses battery power, if your that concerned dont buy a touch screen phone.
December 23rd, 2008 9:08 pmHow to increase battery life - http://www.storm-reviews.co.uk/blackberry-storm-tips-and-tricks/how-to-extend-battery-life-on-the-blackberry-storm/
January 23rd, 2009 5:16 pmComment…..I think the battery is great! If you can’t get a day out of it just making calls there must be something wrong.
January 24th, 2009 1:49 pmComment……got some hints and decided to try them out. 1st : set GPS service to E911 only, 2nd : set Location Aiding to Disabled, 3rd : set backlight brightness to 10, 4th : Backlight Timeout to 10%, 5th : Automatically Dim Backlight to on. fully charge battery. i did all that and battery life appears to be not that bad now. took it off the charger about 2 hours now and made and received a few calls. about 45 minutes of talk time and battery is still at 100%. and bluetooth is on since i’m using a headset
March 12th, 2009 1:59 amComment…..new blackberry owners should always charge there battery for at least 16 hours even if it says its charged, ii had the same problem but after chatging it for 16 hours WOW what a difference even following the battery saving tips, its cool man, take my word for it an do it.
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