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- ratboy4001, on 10/10/2007, -2/+13Take note of the UPDATE: "We just received word from Nokia that the "overheating" referred to in their advisory will not result in an explosion or even a fire. At worst, batteries will "overheat, expand, and pop out of the phone (due to the expansion of the battery)."-Pretty much makes the article useless considering the event is so rare its comparable to any other defective occurrence in typical batteries of that size and stature.
- XistenZ, on 10/10/2007, -0/+9Direct link to check if your battery needs replacement - http://www.nokia.com/batteryreplacement/en/
- 10001110101, on 10/10/2007, -0/+7I've got that battery in my phone! Where do I claim my prize?!
- doit3d, on 10/10/2007, -0/+5One thing that really ticks me off, is when an article has links embedded all in it, which links to the same damn site rather than an ORIGINAL SOURCE.
Your attempt to place 2 tiny links to product advisories at the bottom of the article isn't good enough. Back up your claims with the source no matter what your article.
Yes, I'm calling you out Engadget, for attempting to inflate your page ranking rather than being a reliable news aggregate. Marked as spam, as will all your articles I see here on Digg, until you start linking to the original source. - DarkStalker, on 10/10/2007, -0/+4With the update, the title of this post is no longer correct.
- Ai3d, on 10/10/2007, -0/+2Wow, engadget needs some designers.
- djphatjive, on 10/10/2007, -0/+2Not just phones, My portable Bluetooth GPS unit uses that same battery!
- edgeofreason, on 10/10/2007, -0/+2I just checked and i've got one of these batteries in my prehistoric Nokia 1100. It's been fine for three years now including a beer submerging several months ago...
If it kicks it, well; it's the excuse i've been waiting for to get a better phone. - inactive, on 10/10/2007, -0/+2Why are you digging down macbot? He has a good point. If the battery expands... it enters the realm of a potentially explosive device as stated by Nokia's own hazard warnings.
- rune420, on 10/10/2007, -0/+1If they're in doubt, why not just get a battery and try to short circuit it to see what happens?
- inactive, on 10/10/2007, -0/+1the iPhone just got better..
- igraham09, on 10/10/2007, -0/+1Haha, I have the same phone... and the same battery. I've been using this phone for over a year and I haven't seen any problems.
- wageslaven, on 10/10/2007, -0/+1The design isnt as big a deal as teh worthlessness of Engadget, Gizmodo and Kotaku editorial value. I bury every single article as blogspam. These people do virtually zero actual journalism; just advertising and commentary on original work.
Sure, it has value as a single source, but digg linking to a blog is silly. - AdamFromMyspace, on 10/10/2007, -0/+1My last three phones have used the BL-5C (3650, 3650, N70) and they've been in puddles, dropped from heights, involved in a bad motorcycle accident, and swam in the Gulf of Mexico and mine have never exploded.. wonder what that guy did to lose his leg.
- turquoisefish, on 10/10/2007, -0/+1I have a nokia N95, with a different type of battery - it has overheated twice at least.
- DarkStalker, on 10/10/2007, -0/+1You had two 3650s. You poor bastard. Those phones had such a flawed JVM that calling GetResourceAsStream would leak memory horribly bad and the garbage collector couldn't fix it. The 7650 has the exact same problem.
- howski, on 10/10/2007, -0/+1Or your pants!!!!
- teevee247, on 10/10/2007, -0/+1Except Nokia is Finnish...
- boza111, on 10/10/2007, -0/+1My dads N70 battery qualifed for a free replacemant. They say they will ship it and provide him with an envelope to send the old one back. My 6230i's doesnt qualify ;(... so no new bat for me
- ChristBehemoth, on 10/10/2007, -0/+1but ***** is a company in Japan that made those faulty batteries :P
- BrooksHohler, on 10/10/2007, -0/+0Out of the strain of doing and into the peace of the done.
- inactive, on 10/10/2007, -1/+1I would like to see someone post a serial number that actually registers the message that 'your battery is affected'. The form on Nokias site sucks big time for the reasons that you can enter anything - like 11111111111111111111111111 and it will say your battery is not affected AND that Nokia has capital O's and zeros in their serial numbers... so a huge chance of entering the wrong serial number exists even if you have a battery that IS affected. Is Nokia trying to replace as few batteries as possible? I think so!
- ArchangelZLT, on 10/10/2007, -0/+0Actually my 5700 XpressMusic is using BP-5M. My friends often criticize the distinctness of it, yet now I can revenge...
- macbot, on 10/10/2007, -3/+3you conveniently failed to quote the rest of the update:
"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?"
It says right in the advisory that the battery may short circuit. Sounds like an issue to me and Nokia's marketing department is trying to gloss over a potentially serious issue. - veroy007nokia, on 10/10/2007, -0/+0u idiot! of course it is programmed that only the serial number of a affected battery is to be detected..
- unicronband, on 10/10/2007, -2/+2Give's a new meaning to the phrase "I'm blowin' up!"
- djJohnnyG, on 10/10/2007, -0/+0I wish they'd announce the same problem for other makers, my T-mobile Dash would love a new battery
- veroy007nokia, on 10/10/2007, -0/+0hey! anyone who likes to have the full version of smartmovie for thier phones, this one allows u to play any type of video extensions.. this one comes with the smartmovie converter for pc which is use to convert any movie into smaller MB to be played on phones.. anyone interested email me at veroy007@yahoo.com
- jason469, on 10/10/2007, -2/+1My cousin owns a cell phone store, and someone came in with a phone that had exploded, it wasn't a big deal though, the back case was pushed out a bit and the keys looked like they were forced out of the front side, but the scary part is the battery liquid. You wouldn't want to get that hot stuff in your eyes.
- inactive, on 10/10/2007, -3/+2As a cell phone salesman, I would like to order 100 of these defective batteries for use in my most errr... special customers phones.
- FOUGHTANDWON, on 10/10/2007, -1/+0I have an antique 3120 with the same battery. even in Houston heat, it's hasn't exploaded that I know of.
- veroy007nokia, on 10/10/2007, -1/+0hey! kindly send me the serial number of ur dads battery and the serial of yours, im makin it free for you to have one but be sure to send the old one back.. thanx email me at veroy007@yahoo.com
- superkickstart, on 10/10/2007, -2/+1http://www.nokia.com/batteryreplacement/en/
here you can check if your battery can be changed - jerrolds, on 10/10/2007, -3/+0 Whew....the BL-6C...close one
- ChristBehemoth, on 10/10/2007, -5/+1Bin Laden's in Japan .. and he works for Nokia!
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