Nokia joins the Overheating Cellphone Battery club, recalls 46 million branded batteries
By Ema Kwiatkowski
Just when you thought it was safe to put your cell phone back in your pocket, Nokia announces a recall on their branded BL-5C battery. This advisory applies only to the 46 million batteries manufactured by Matsushita between December 2005 and November 2006.
Nokia has identified that in “very rare cases” the Nokia-branded BL-5C batteries could potentially short circuit and overheat while charging, causing the battery to dislodge. Engadet says:
At worst, batteries will “overheat, expand, and pop out of the phone (due to the expansion of the battery).” Of course, it states right on the battery that it “may explode if damaged” and “do not short circuit” so this little clarification likely won’t make you feel any better now will it?
If you do have a phone with an BL-5C battery in it, make sure you charge it away from flammable objects, and monitor the charging. Just because it shouldn’t burst into flame, doesn’t mean it won’t.
If your battery is part of the recall, Nokia will provide a, hopefully non-overheating, replacement free of charge. To find out if your battery is part of the recall, Nokia has a list of affected phones up on their website.
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you can go to http://www.nokia.com/batteryreplacement or contact your local Nokia dealer
This link http://www.nokia.com/batteryreplacement/en/ will tell you how to identify if your battery is part of the recall.
August 15th, 2007
HAHAHAHA. Why am I not bloody suprised this would happen? Those dinks at Nokia have been peddling their overpriced, overhyped, underperforming crap phones for far too long, too easily. Now we know why. They’ve been cutting corners on the production costs and quality. How do you think they could push so many features so fast into phones and rush it into production? Here’s how.
1. Shove it all in the ph, dont bother if it really works or is stable. As long as it sounds good on paper.
2. Dont test it long enough, or else the competition will get a whiff of it and do a much better job at it cuz theyre more competent.
3. Rush vendors to supply parts as soon as possible, without even performing proper testing. Just so they can be ahead of the pack.
4. Keep costs down by skimping on quality materials, testing etc.
5. Pay for elaborate mktg campaigns to fool the simpletons ;who do think Nokia rules ; into buying more Nokia crap.
6. Jack up prices like hell to make it look ‘high-end’.
Well, its about time Nokia got bit in the bum.
I hope they really suffer this time and it teaches them a lesson!!