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Nokia admits mobile battery issue |
masseur
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Nokia is offering to replace 46 million batteries for its mobile phones after reports of overheating while charging.
The problems are confined to BL-5C batteries made by Matsushita between December 2005 and November 2006.
also more in this BBC article
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goldenface
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Oops! Thats might be a bit expensive for them. 46 million? 
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masseur
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thats a huge number isn't it!
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goldenface
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Massive!
Sony's recall of 8 million laptop batteries cost an estimated $430 million dollars for example, so it isn't small.
I wonder how many different phones are affected.
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QVGA
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My phone gets hot during intensive usage, like HTML browsing, is that normal?
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Evil Eye
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@QVGA just by browsing?
i dont think its normal... but anyways it also depends upon how much time you browse???
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goldenface
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I don't think web browing is intensive.
Video streaming is intensive as you have sound, graphics and data streaming all activated so I wouldn't expect your battery to get hot just browsing the web, well not unless you have the radio going too.
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batesie
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o dear, thats a lot of batteries! well at least there prepared to replace them 'just in case' - but i wouldnt want my nokia exploding on me!
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On 2007-08-14 11:14:25, QVGA wrote:
My phone gets hot during intensive usage, like HTML browsing, is that normal?
Browsing using GPRS, broadband or wifi?
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masseur
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Press release
product advisory
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fatreg
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On 2007-08-14 11:08:04, goldenface wrote:
I wonder how many different phones are affected.
46 Million maybe????   |
goldenface
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@fatreg You know what I mean.
Isn't Matsushita the umbrella company of Panasonic etc?
Well they have a site where you can just enter your battery number and it will tell you if your affected or not.
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fatreg
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yeah matsushita are an umbrella company of panasonic....
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psp476
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Wow 46 million!!,
O well everyone learns from their mistakes 
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MWEB
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Nokia are probably just covering their corporate backsides by making that announcement, i only ever heard rumours of one actually going into meltdown, i use cheap foreign copies off Ebay anyway, Nokia are always harping on about the dangers of such, perhaps they should have looked closer to home 
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Posted: 2007-08-14 10:52
