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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. Burnt Legs? by pete-classic · · Score: 5, Funny

    I understand that this is a legitimate recall. That said, if your phone is burning your legs while it's charging I'm pretty sure you're using it wrong.

    -Peter

    1. Re:Burnt Legs? by SpottedKuh · · Score: 5, Funny

      That said, if your phone is burning your legs while it's charging I'm pretty sure you're using it wrong.

      Oh, crap. I always wondered why I couldn't walk more than three feet from the wall while I'm charging my phone.

    2. Re:Burnt Legs? by Anonymous Coward · · Score: 5, Interesting

      I wonder seriously about this. I put in the code from the back of my battery and the site cheerfully informed me, "Your battery may be replaced". Great, I thought. I'll just pop in my contact info and they'll mail me a new one. Great, right??

      Uhm...next page says, "Your battery will NOT be replaced". Think they coulda told me that BEFORE I put in my contact (marketing) info?

      I smell a scam here. Or at least, scummy tactics.

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

    Link to forum thread

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  3. Admitting? by glitch23 · · Score: 5, Insightful

    "Admitting" seems a bit strong. There is no evidence yet of them denying the matter. It just takes time for reports to come in and see that there is a pattern forming and *realize* all those issues may not be coincidence. "Admitting" to there being an issue implies they were trying to cover up something. At least that's the way I view it. I don't see any wrongdoing, yet.

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  4. 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

  5. Re:Forty. Three. Million. by timmarhy · · Score: 4, Interesting
    hardly. It's not your fault, but most people have a lot of trouble comprehending large numbers of things. I'd guess nokia will simply have all their dealers as collection sites, and have them send the boxes back to them where they will scan the bar code on the battery to mark it as returned and then ship the batteries off to a scrap metal recycler. 43 million would amount to a couple of road train loads.

    i'd be suprised if there was significant labour invovled in the process.

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  6. Risky business by Taagehornet · · Score: 4, Interesting

    I bet Nokia's rather happy they didn't solder the battery onto the board, but opted for the replaceable solution.

    Considering that every month brings with it a new story of a major hardware manufacturer having to recall xx million devices due to faulty batteries, I'm impressed that Apple had the guts to go for non-replaceables.

  7. 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".