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Nokia to Replace 43 Million Batteries

Posted by samzenpus on from the no-more-burning-phone dept.

mysqlbytes writes "According to a recent post on the BBC's website, Nokia has admitted to a problem in the BL-5C batteries made by Matsushita between December 2005 and November 2006. For some of us, it means longer battery life with a new lease of life and for some of us, no more burnt legs. You can check out the product advisory here."

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  1. This site discussed on TheDailyWTF by willpall · · Score: 5, Informative

    Link to forum thread

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  2. WTF Javascript by nytrokiss · · Score: 2, Informative

    Yes they have this massive WTF on there website script! http://forums.worsethanfailure.com/forums/thread/1 27881.aspx

  3. If you do have a BL-5C by 88Seconds · · Score: 5, Informative

    Go to the following URL http://www.nokia.com/batteryreplacement/en/ to check if you are affected

  4. Re:Substitute "Dealerships" for "Workers". by nacturation · · Score: 3, Informative

    A thousand dealerships, each exchanging 100 batteries a day, in five day work weeks, for 86 consecutive weeks? I don't know where you live, but in my city alone there's easily more than 1000 retail stores you could go to buy a Nokia phone. And let's say there's 1000 such cities around the world. 86 weeks is 14,448 hours. With 1000 dealers in 1000 cities they could have this entire thing done in 14.5 hours or one to two working days. Or half an hour a day for a month.
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  5. Re:26-CHARACTER PRODUCT IDENTIFICATION NUMBER by phozz+bare · · Score: 4, Informative

    You don't need to call anyone. If you had actually read the advisory you may have noticed that "if the battery identification number does not contain 26 characters, it is not subject to this product advisory".

  6. For those who don't know by postermmxvicom · · Score: 2, Informative

    Matsushita = Panasonic

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