Tips for saving your BlackBerry Battery -- 13.05.2010

As BlackBerry is slowly becoming the leading Smartphone provider across the world, we are slowly seeing more and more queries surrounding BlackBerry Battery Life and it running out too soon. At Z-three we have found a few tips that may be useful in saving your battery life.

A Few Tips:

1. A BlackBerry constantly searching for signal drains the battery quickly. In an office building, residence, or rural area with low signal coverage, you will experience a quicker battery drain. Turn off the “radio” on the home screen or the data signal if you must reduce battery drain in severe circumstances (Options > Mobile Network > Data Services = OFF).
2. Check your Applications running in the background. Press your Menu key and then choose Switch Applications to see what is running in the background (or, hold down the Menu key about 3 seconds for the App Switcher ribbon to appear). There are commonly four or five applications that will always be running (Messages, Call Logs/Phone, BlackBerry Messenger, Homescreen.
3. Turn off the Bluetooth connection when you don’t need it (Options > Bluetooth).
4. Some applications such have a “battery save mode” when idle. Log off applications such as JiveTalk, AIM, Google Talk if you are not using them for long periods of time.
5. Use your sleeper-magnet enabled holster (Available at 4MyBerry.co.uk). The magnet in the holster is there for a reason – it puts the BlackBerry to sleep, saves the battery, and makes you a happy camper

These are but a few recommendations to make best use of your BlackBerry Smartphones battery life. Remember that BlackBerry batteries are not inferior to other models such as Iphones, BlackBerry Batteries are simply used a lot more intensively!!