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Speed and Battery Life
Based on our experience using the Curve and other BlackBerrys, the OS is stable and runs smoothly. The BlackBerry easily handled pretty much any task we threw at it. We were able to navigate menus and browse Web pages, for example, quickly and easily.
WM6, on the other hand, felt poky when launching apps and toggling between them. Screen refreshes were also sluggish-partly because of the device's slow processor. We expect devices to be better. It's worth noting that WM6 is more stable than WM5, as we experienced fewer random freezes and crashes.
Battery life depends, of course, on usage and on the network the phone supports. Our BlackBerry Curve and WM6 Dash each lasted for a few days of typical daily chores such as several short calls, checking e-mail, IMing, Web browsing, shooting photos, and listening to and watching a few songs and videos. Both of these devices use EDGE data connections.
We haven't yet tested a WM6 device with a 3G data connection (EV-DO or HSDPA), but the 3G WM5 devices we tested were not very good when it comes to battery life. For example, we needed to recharge the Samsung BlackJack every other day, and the MOTO Q needed to be recharged at the end of every day.
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