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guru meditation
Joined: Jan 15, 2005
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Ok so I searched the forum and google but couldn't find much-all you get from google these days is fricking shopping links zzzzzz
On Ebay you can pick up a desktop charger and TWO spare batteries for you K750 for about a tenner. I am interested on two levels-even if the batteries are rubbish it would be good to have a cheap desktop battery charger to use with an original SE battery, so you can have one battery on charge at all times, or a spare charged battery to take away with you etc.
So are these non-se batteries any good? I realise if you try and charge the phone with one in it will say 'Charging Alien Battery' but what is their capacity like? At £6 for two you wouldn't care if their longevity wasn't up to much, as long as they functioned well.
Only other thing I think about is the amount of grief it gives your battery door taking it on and off lots, don't want mine to loosen up.....
Apologies if this has been done to death before.
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jcwhite_uk
Joined: Feb 18, 2004
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From: Dorset, UK Phone:Xperia Z1
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It has been known for non-genuine batteries to leak or even blow-up. Either one will destroy your phone while invalidating your warrenty and probably any insurance on the phone.
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guru meditation
Joined: Jan 15, 2005
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Thanks for your input-it really doesn't surprise me to hear that. Anyone got any real world experience with non genuine batteries? Someone must have used them? How did they perform, did they kill your phone? Why are non genuine batteries inferior-I mean, we all know that a mobile manufacturer will both have a hefty overhead on the cost of genuine batteries and also give dire warnings against using non genuine batteries, they want you to buy from them of course! |
ESTOR
Joined: Apr 20, 2002
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From: Singapore
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I spent a couple hour at a service centre and saw many people came in with phone damaged by leaky non-OEM batteries - corroded contacts mostly
1. there is no way you can get Li-ion battery at those prices. A read on the battery university website will tell you how complicated it is to manufacture Li-ion batteries
2. these batteries are made in China. A recent test by the government there on non-OEM, but local name brand(i.e. they have proper labels and what-not) confirmed that none of the tested ones meet the capacity indicated on the label, and some of them are not Li-ion even though the labels say so
3. eBay ones are probably not even "name brand", so they would be worse than 2. above
4. there have been exploding non-OEM phone batteries, while in use, reported in Asia |
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Posted: 2005-07-07 00:42
