smaller battery... better battery management and OS compared to say some hungry mobile operating systems?

always a bit of a worry when you have something faster but with a smaller battery.

oops double post.

I'm glad rim still gives us the option of removable batteries. shame the same can't be said for the playbook.

Wow. That's reaallyyy thin for a battery. I'm thinking the JM1 will do just fine in devices, provided RIM can keep the battery management and 3G stack up like they have done for so long.

i honestly cant see how this pans out... this phone requires way more power than the current bold models yet still it has a smaller battery...... hmmmmmmmmmmmm?

i'd still prefer a few days use to super thin-ness..

I would rather have a longer battery life as well. I have a feeling people will be complaining about battery life on this one regardless of the thiness of the device.

As long as its better than my torch that's all I care about. Torch battery = HORRRRRRIBLE terrible awful awful battery life worst of any phone ive ever had by far. Nuff said

My Bold 9000 is on its last legs... I could care less if the battery life is one day or two days, I just want it SOOOOOON!! Anyone have any updates on release date or carriers?

I am also really worried. If I wanted a ultra-slim phone, I'll get the new Samsung Galaxy S II...
It's worrying to see that Blackberry is starting to copy the worst point of Android phones: battery life!
How is "expect the device to power you through a full day of work and play" good enough?
Still waiting for the Bold Touch to be out so the 9780 goes cheaper and I can go for it :)

Well 1230mA is over 20% less than 1550mA. With a faster processor (is it better at power mangement?) this looks like batteries will run flatter, faster.

Is OS7 a battery hog?

Let's hope not.

If the Bold Touch will have a pure battery (and one day operation is very very pure), this will be a huge problem for me. I expect the same operation time without charging as I have now with my Bold 9780. Everything less is bad. I dont need a super thin phone, I need a good tool for my business!

If RIM is going with this much smaller 1230 battery on the 9930 CDMA version which already struggles along with a 1400 in the 9650, then I can see that aftermarket extended batteries are going to be a BIG seller. Which will bring the phone size back up to where it was ;) I will still buy the 9930 but will get a larger battery and back cover asap.

The newer Snapdragon processors are much more efficient with battery usage. RIM is probably correct when they stand behind their new battery.If worst came to worst even with an extended battery the BT will still end up the being about as thick as current BBs.Nothing like some of the Android phones with extended batteries.

Never had a phone before with this battery-life like my BB. So "a whole day of..." sounds not that good. At the moment i can use my BB for 4 to 5 days, with a little less usage nearly one week. So that would a critizized point i think. But noone can say something until the first real experiences with the 9900. Let's see.

i think 9900 users will be fine, you'll probably get almost 2 days worth before getting in the yellow. 9930 however will have issues. theres no way cdma smartphone users will be able to get through a whole days worth on a 1230 mah battery... unless you just plan on using the phone as paper weight. i think this is simply another case of a phone manufacturer thinking about the gsm phone design first, and cdma being an after thought. extended batteries for 9930s will be a huge sell.

Nice sleek design, but not to use. RIM, this is really stupid and not typical for you :( Get away from this road to be trendy and return back to produce good solid phones!

maybe you can still use the old one in there, just gotta force shut the back cover. let's hope.

Won't the touch screen itself use a lot more power than a regular screen?
Hopefully the new OS and processor are just more effecient.
My guess is the battery life will be worse than the 97xx but better than Droids/iPhone/Torch

Let's not make something a problem until we actually know it's a problem. RIM can make you a phone that will last for a week without being recharged. But you'll need a shoulder tote to carry it around. RIM must begin producing sleek, relatively thin, somewhat sexy phones or they will face extinction in this business. I love my BlackBerry, but my friends all think of BlackBerrys as dinosaurs that are not really smartphones. This new Bold Touch will go a long way in convincing them they are wrong. And hopefully will even tempt Android / iPhone users to consider BB. Otherwise, market share will continue to fall.

Since this is going to be touch screen, I think it will be hard for the battery to last as long as it did. Even if the newer processors demand less power.

Obviously with a smaller battery and more Mhz, the processor won't outlast the previous. However, I'm pretty sure that it will provide plenty of power to get an average user through a whole day without having to worry about it.

So I'm still excited for this device!

I think it is amazing....in the end someone is always gonna complain about battery life. I wonder if the touch aka "Storm 3" will have the same battery?

Dont all blackberry's have removable batteries ? hope this battery is good enough for you future bold touch owners,cause it would really suck if you all have to buy a better battery,but im waiting on the Monaco,so no worries over here

The majority of comments here sound like premature worries before the posters know there is an issue. Save your energy and worry when you can actually say with factual information that there IS a problem.

Everything would be perfect if this still had the magnets like previous Blackberries which fit nicely in the pouch through the day and because of the magnets it used like 5% of the battery every 24 hours. It looks like this was removed on the 9930. It was their best feature!! WTF!!

my battery dies with less than 15 hours and mostly bbm, and less then 20 min calls in total in those 15 hours, now ... WTF was that ?! can it be fix in software update ?