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Originally Posted by richard cheese
I was wondering how the 9700 is compared to the 9000
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If nothing else, the 9700 has vastly better battery life. The screen on the original Bold 9000 was beautiful but there was a penalty for that; colleagues at work who had them say theirs used more power than the Death Star. All our users had to have two batteries to avoid being caught with a flat unusable phone.
I had a Pearl 8110 until last Friday and put up with the SureType input (RIM's predictive text) to get a smaller form factor. But with the cleverly proportioned 9700 and reports of a plethora of less visible improvements, I made the switch. It was 6 days before I had to charge the device from the initial charging, and that's with a lot of use during the "playing with the new toy" period. That will do me.
Yeah as reported it's not fast connecting to the 'Net but I only do that when I positively have to (and it is a good "emergency" feature of smartphones) and there is no PC nearby. Frankly, for me web browsing sucks on anything less than a 15 inch monitor.
This is my third BlackBerry over the years and previous ones have elicited a "Hey, pretty cool device" reaction from me. This one blew me away, a huge step up from the Pearl 8110 and in the intervening two-and-a-bit years since I got that one, RIM has really improved the OS.