Here's BlackBerry's "secret weapon": not what you think

Yea, yea, I know that when I (and other bloggers) mention "analyst notes," many of your eyes glaze over. You think of either optimistic or arcanely detained financial predictions made by pundits whose employers may have a vested interest in the price of the stock in question going ever higher.

While I can't say the above scenario is never the case, it is helpful in the BlackBerry world to look at some analyst notes for details bloggers, journalists, and publicists may have missed about new and forthcoming BlackBerry models.

Take for instance a report issued just a few days ago by Rob Sanderson, an analyst for American Technology Research.

Quoted by the website Seeking Alpha: 

On the consumer/retail side of things, the “Curve (which I show you at the top of this post) looks like another hit product, with much better multimedia capabilities than the Pearl,” says Sanderson. Other models will follow this year, including the 8830, and a version of the Pearl to be carried by Sprint, and multimedia may become a bigger part of the Blackberry.

"Starting with the Curve, the Blackberry’s secret weapon in playback of media files could be its battery life, says Sanderson. “Management said the Curve will play three full length movies without completely draining the battery. Long battery life has always been important to cell phone and smartphone users and will likely be important to converged multimedia devices.”

I will tell you this. I am a skeptic about battery life claimed in device specs. Not to say there won't be significant improvement, though.