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Introducing the BlackBerry Accessory Roundup for All That's New and Hot... Free Featured Item Given Away Each Week!
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26 Jan 2010 12:58
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This Week's Giveaway: Win a Seidio Extended Battery! Contest Details Below...
Welcome to our very first BlackBerry Accessory Roundup! We already bring you a BlackBerry Apps Roundup, BlackBerry Themes Roundup and BlackBerry News Roundup on a weekly basis, so we figured it only made sense that we go the extra distance and add a weekly BlackBerry Accessory Roundup to the routine. We hope you find value in it and enjoy it. It might take us a few accessory roundups to nail down the format that works best, so please let us know in the comments what you'd like to see in this type of weekly article. We are writing it for your benefit. Our plan as of now is to highlight some of the some of the new products that have hit the market and/or our ShopCrackBerry.com store in the past week, hone in on greater detail on one featured item (which we'll give you a chance to win!) and make note of some great deals. To keep things always interesting, we'll mix up the contributors who put together the roundup on a fairly regular basis and from time to time put a theme to the roundups - accessories for the car, the office, the frequent traveler... sort of as we did with our Holiday Gift Guides which were well received. Enough of an intro, read on for the roundup!
This Week's Featured Item: The Seidio 2700mAh Extended Battery for the BlackBerry Bold 9700
Since getting my BlackBerry Bold 9700 I have been raving non-stop about just how great the battery life is. I even wrote an article about it. But being human in nature, I always want more, and so I ordered myself Seidio's new extended battery for the Bold 9700 which the UPS man dropped off just yesterday. At 2700mAh, the battery offers slightly less than double the capacity of the native 1550mAh battery. 24 hours later I'm still at four bars on the battery level indicator, so I'm hoping the extended battery will power me through three or even four days of regular use. You can watch for a full review on the blogs next week and we'll see how it stands up. For power users or for people who travel a lot an accessory like an extended battery is a no-brainer. When I travel to conferences I tend to be extra-heavy on my device usage, making more calls than normal and constantly firing up Google Maps and the web browser. In these situations, a standard battery is lucky to make the day so having an extended battery provides the peace of mind of knowing you'll make it back to your hotel room and not be seeing low power warnings. There is a trade-off of course. Because the battery extends out of the device, you need to use the specially-designed battery door that Seidio ships along with the battery. In the case of the 9700's, the door has a nice finish and seems to fit and hold on tight. Holding the device in the hand the extra battery door protrusion actually feels kind of nice, but you're now carrying around a bigger phone. The other drawback is that with the new battery door in place, you can no longer use the standard BlackBerry Charging pod. Thankfully, Seidio now makes a Desktop Charging Cradle for the BlackBerry Bold 9700 that will work with the Innocell Extended battery. Nice!
At $69.95 for the Seidio Extended Innocell battery and $24.95 for the Desktop Cradle, it's not the cheapest solution available to keep you going longer, but it is one of the most convenient and elegant solutions. If you've never experienced it before, I'd argue it's a solution worth trying. Alternatively, you could always purchase spare OEM batteries and carry a spare charged one around in a coat pocket for those times when you run on low juice. For the Bold 9700 a replacement battery MSRPs for $79.95, but you can get them right now from ShopCrackBerry.com for only $29.95 - you could have essentially two spares for the less than the cost of one extended battery. Decisions, decisions! Get the Innocell Extended Battery for Other BlackBerry Device Models: Seidio makes their extended batteries for pretty much every BlackBerry Smartphone device model. The style and pricing and capacity vary a bit with each design, but the premise is the same. Follow the link below to discover the Seidio Innocell Extended battery that works best with your device:
CONTEST: Win a Free Seidio Extended Battery for your BlackBerry SmartphoneFor your chance to win a free Seidio Extended Battery for your BlackBerry, simply leave a comment to this blog post telling us how or when having an extended battery would have saved you in the past from a situation where your battery died! Contest ends this Sunday night at Midnight PST. Please, just one entry per person.Â
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My daughter became sick so we had to call emergency. But before they came I had to get my BB Storm and it was at 50% thats 3 hours of life. So we take off and got to the hospital. They found out it's was N1H1 fear, panic and I'm not going anywhere set in. I ended up that day spending 12 hours at the hospital. Having to turn the phone on/off sometimes to save battery life (still leaving with a completely dead battery) and spent 4 more 12 hour days after that. So sending & receiving many concern phone calls to & from family members was not enjoyable (drained battery like mad). Had to use the on & off technique again missing many calls having to pick and choose which one to call back when it was turned on. She doing great now but the battery life on my storm keeps letting me down: Average life fully charged 6 hours.
Having an extended battery would ensure that I can win bar arguments by being able to look up answers. It's embarrasing to use the bartender's iPhone!
WOW, these are some great products. AWESOME ROUNDUP!
I can really drain my battery when connected via WiFi, this would help with that immensely! Nothing more embarrassing than showing someone how great your BlacKBerry works and then get a low battery warning!
I ended up having my battery go dead LOST while on the phone trying to get directions out of the area. I was at a work party, been drinking a bit, and lost my direction in the middle of nowhere where my bosses house was. Couldn't find my way back to the party (even though I tried), and ended up freaking out and calling my wife to go on google maps and find me. While she was telling me where to go, the phone died and needless to say, after an hour, I got out of the woods but only after asking a couple walking their dog how to get out of the area. Luck was not on my side.
This would definitely come in handy for those long road trips and busy as hell days at work!
I'd like to take this time to "extend" myself into this contest.
I have a Storm2, its getting boring anything new will spice it up. Thanks for the opportunity.
The wife and i were looking for a location, at a cheerleading competition for my little girl . Not only did my phone die but hers did too and we hit several one-way streets making the situation worse. We ended up parking very far away and barely getting my little princess there to perform. CLOSE CALL. Doesn't sound like much until you are in the car with a crying, sad 5 year old and a angry wife who is wondering how I can have the best phone with a dead battery. Boy that battery for my Storm2 would make a world of difference :)
The wife and i were looking for a location, at a cheerleading competition for my little girl . Not only did my phone die but hers did too and we hit several one-way streets making the situation worse. We ended up parking very far away and barely getting my little princess there to perform. CLOSE CALL. Doesn't sound like much until you are in the car with a crying, sad 5 year old and a angry wife who is wondering how I can have the best phone with a dead battery. Boy that battery for my Storm2 would make a world of difference :)
Need one of those for my long work/school days.
I have a storm 9530 which I use pretty much constantly. I am a truck driver and most of the time my phone is streaming music via slacker and running vz navigator at the same time. This combination uses the radio pretty heavily and usually kills my battery in a few hours.
I went to a conference last year for a major ERP vendor, and was constantly using my Blackberry to check on the status of an on-going problem back at the office. Even though the location of the conference was great, as usual there are never enough outlets for everyone to use to charge their electronic gadgets. I'm going to the same conference again this year, and an extended battery would provide peace of mind knowing that I could make it through a heavy day of usage and not have to clamor with the masses for an electrical outlet to keep my beloved Blackberry alive.
Winning this would ENSURE that "I'm ALWAYS on ALWAYS Connected"
Would love to get one.
My BB 9700 just died because i didn't have a Seidio battery and i might get fired... how about ya'll let me win this and we'll call it even!!!!
Rainy day - so I had S2 on bluetooth all day while I ran from meeting to meeting. Listening to music and playing PBA bowling2 happily on my commute home (2+hours from NY to CT)when I got an e-mail requesting me to review a document on our worksite. No problem, I pulled up worksite mobility and opened the doc in docs to go. Then....wha, wha, wha... not enough power for radio. Can't e-mail, can't call to say, I can't e-mail, still 45 min from walking in my front door. Partner not happy. Extended battery would have saved me some grief. Should call them BT commuter batteries! lol.
I went on a weekend business trip and forgot to take my charger. Having an extended battery for my 8900 saved me that weekend. I was able to make it home with 1 bar left on the battery.
I use my phone all day long from 7 AM to 7 PM and it is the only source of internet I have till I get home. So by 5 PM I'm running about 30% I would love to have just more juice for the 45 min drive home.
I would love to have an extended battery for my Tour. It would come in handy for those trips on the train with my babies going to my doctors office or any trip for that matter. Sucks taking the metro and having no phone to call anyone especially if I need to call a ride to get home quicker but can't because my battery is dead :(
I have had days that I used my phone a lot and then when I go home my battery is too low for radio coverage. If I have an accident or other emergency I won't be able to use phone. having an extended battery will help prevent this from happening.
I'm an NCAA athlete and on the way home from one of our games our bus broke down. Having forgotten my charger for the stay in the hotel, my 9700 was quite dead for the 5 hours we were stuck on the side of I-20. The extended battery would have helped just a little bit ;).
I do a lot of sitting around and driving at work so I am always listening to the radio or streaming something there is nothing worse than battery going dead on graveyard half way through the night and then trying to stay awake the rest of the shift by pretending that you can hear a beat in your head
Storm 2 has always drained my battery very quickly. Getting stuck in a snow storm this weekend with a BB that had no charge was awful. Ended up sitting in a random bathroom at a rest stop and charging for 20 minutes.
I was recently in the mall with my girlfriend while she was shopping. watching her shop is painfully boring, so i told her i was going to venture off on my own to look around (probably at electronics, or video games). I tried to call her and to find out where she was to re-meet with her and battery was dead! It took almost an hour before she embarrassed me over the mall loudspeaker and called me to the mall customer service booth like a child, lol.
My battery drains almost everyday and it is important for work that my phone is always charged and ready to use.
That time when I was coming home late to the girlfriend...yeah...and extended battery would have helped me and my sanity then....
After a long day of emailing and working on my phone I decided to stop out for a drink. Well we all know how the spouse reacts when you are out and the cell phone battery goes "dead". :)
I was with a friend of mine checking on her daughter to make sure she made it home during a very heavy snow storm. After making sure her daughter had made it home safely we were headed back to my house, when we couldn't make it up a steep hill due to the snow (2ft). The van started sliding backwards down the hill. So I hit the brakes to try and stop the vehicle from going backwards out of control, that didn't help. We ended up in a ditch, STUCK. There was only 1/4 tank of gas. And it was night time, on a not well traveled road. I tried franticly to call someone to come get us, so we wouldn't freeze to death. My phone battery was completely dead. I had to walk 4 miles in 2 feet of snow to flag down a passing car. I would really like to have one of these extended batteries so this wouldn't happen again. PLEASE
My daughter had surgery in the beginning of January to have her tonsils removed and she was supposed to be released the next day. One night turned into two nights and my Storm was DOA. I had to have my wife drive down to give me my power adapter so I can charge it. Having the extended battery in this case would have helped save my wife a trip.
An extended battery would have definitely saved me on a long car trip through poor network coverage areas. One time I was surfing the web and streaming music quite a bit on a trip to handle some house renting business. That combined with the frequent network fluctuations really, really killed the oem battery...
After using the blackberry constantly at work and not being able to put it down to charge, it usually dies when I'm stuck in traffic heading home.. Worst case scenario if an emergency happens on the road! The extended battery would give much more peace of mind.
I've been looking at the Seidoo Extended battery for my Tour due to the short battery life. I recently upgraded to the )S 5.0.0.419 and it is getting better, but I still have to charge on the drive in, drive home, beside the bed, etc. Would be nice to have an extended battery so that I could search Crackberry longer!
I take the subway quite a bit and it gets annoying turning on and off the radio to save battery. Often times I forget to turn it back on and end up missing important calls or emails. The extended battery would be great to have!
If I had an extended battery I could leave the charger at home and not carry it on my belt alongside the Storm2 9550. Carrying both is annoying and uncomfortable when you sit down :-)
...this a is avery useful article.
Having an extended battery would be a great help while on one of my mission trips to what is practically the middle of nowhere in Guatemala. Needless to say, the signals aren't very strong there and it's nice to make it through the long days without having to worry about my phone dying on me.
and I'm the type of person who doesn't know anyone's number by heart or anyone has my work number. I also don't have a car charger. When I got home I heard it from everyone asking what's wrong with your phone? If I had an extended battery it would just save me the headache of hearing people's complaint when they cannot get in touch with me.
I would love having an extended battery especially since I work on a construction site. The trailer I work in gets horrible service and drains my battery quickly. I have had multiple times where my battery dies when I am on the phone with the owner/engineer/architect trying to get issues resolved.
I don't have much opportunity to get out much due to work load but when I do, it means I actually have to leave my driveway and since I don't get out much, I don't know the area I live in very well. After using my 9700 all day, I got an invite to go out for drinks with a hot girl I work with. I shut my computers down and went to meet her. I realized I didn't know exactly where the restaurant was so I went to look up the location on the gps and thats when I saw I was down to 1 bar of battery left! I went ahead and used the gps as I didn't want to risk missing the date but then, as I started home, the battery died! No gps and it's nighttime and I don't know the area! I finally made it home but that was a miserable trip! As for the girl, nope, that was the only time we hooked up. Sure could have used an extended battery that day!
I flew to Alabama to help my cousin move back to Maryland. With two Blackberrys and Google maps we figured we would never get lost. We never got lost just side tracked. Several text, emails, calls, and local searches we both burned out our batteries. The first day of our trip barely under our belt we were going to need some juice and fast. We found the nearest V@#$@%N store and bought some over priced car chargers. An extended battery would have helped me make it to the hotel room wall outlet for a nice long charge and saved me a few bucks.
WOW! an extended battery is just what i need! going to highschool from 9am-4pm my battery dies by the end of the day. This would be a true lifesaver!
I work from 12pm until 10:30pm and I wake around 8am everyday. I hit the gym before work and run errands and sadly my battery doesnt typically last the entire day, an extended battery would be great!
that music gateway is nifty looking, Ide like to try it out
I work as an athletic trainer and I travel with various teams to different locations weekly. I use my 9550 to help keep to with any of the other teams that are practicing as well as keep in contact with my group and manage patient information that we keep stored on our phones. One day high school wrestling season a player was thrown to the ground and his neck twisted in a fashion that should not happen. I stabilized the kid and told the coach to grab my phone and call 911. He commented however the phone would not work and was dead. He did not have his phone either so he had to flag a car driving by to call. I spent five hours at the hospital that night with the kid unable to charge by phone which did. OT go over well at home. If I had the battery extender I would not look like a joke to my coaches nor end up sleeping on the couch.
I don't think that I use my phone more than anyone else, but somehow, it doesn't make it through the day. Sometimes, it doesn't even make it through the night. No battery = no alarm, no alarm = lots of trouble at work!
I'd love to be able to use my phone freely without having to think, "Oh, maybe I shouldn't being doing this. It's using up the battery."
I would love to have an extended battery for my 9700. It has great battery life when I am at home, but not even close when I am in school. I am almost 90% of the time in classes that are in the basement and I get 1-2 bars top, and my phone is constantly searching for signal. I need my BlackBerry to get through the day and having an extended battery would make it so I don't have to carry around a charger.
we love crackberry! good luck to all!
You can never have enough power! A Seidio Extended Battery for my BlackBerry would be great!
Working outside I'm out in the field most of the time and I don’t get to charge my phone as often as I would like, being a heavy user this extended battery for my cell would save a lot of worry when I can't always get the charge I need + a lot less complaining from my wife when I don’t miss her calls.