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@Velocio
No, Blackberry's do something different.
Basically the reason that Blackberry battery life is exceptional comes down to their centralised servers and relationship with networks.
BB use the spare bandwidth within the ping space of the phone and a cell tower to transmit alerts, notifications and small pieces of text.
Which means that just by being on and telling a cell tower where it is, the BB can receive emails, alerts, notifications, BB messenger and SMS without having to make any connection to WiFi, GPRS, etc.
Without the need to use those other networks, the BB doesn't send power to those functions on the device... thus battery life on a BB massively outperforms other devices.
This is all only possible because of BB having those centralised servers and close relationships with network providers. They also own the patents on this stuff, which prevents others copying it.
To say that any Android or Apple device does something similar is just incorrect. I love my Android but I'm not going to kid myself about battery life and the dependability of it compared to a BB.
If you use lots of Apple stuff: Buy an iPhone.
If you use lots of Google stuff or apps: Buy an Android.
If you use neither and don't care too much about apps but want reliability and battery life: Buy a Blackberry.
If you only want to make phonecalls and text and never ever access much else: Buy a Nokia.