Nokia’s BL-5C branded batteries at risk of exploding – 46 millions of Nokia phone users could be affected!

Posted by ketyung on Tue, Aug 14th, 07 at 2:55 am

If you’re a Nokia cellphone user then you could be at pretty high risk of your cellphone’s battery will explode while charging. Nokia just issued a product advisory related to the BL-5C, Nokia-branded battery.

Yes, please note it’s Nokia-branded, not the kind of 3rd party batteries to blame here. They’re those batches of batteries manufactured in between December 2005 and November 2006, said to be at risk of “dislodge.” These batches of batteries consist of around 46 million pieces, are all manufactured by Matsushita aka Panasonic in between the said period. The release tells that the Nokia branded BL-5C battery could go short circuit during charging, which will lead to explosion.

Nokia even claimed that there were no serious cases so far, only about 100 incidents of overheating reported globally. Perhaps, Nokia didn’t consider the case reported by Engadget early in 2005 as a serious case – the case which a man lost his leg due to the Nikia-branded battery exploded and Nokia was sued for that for 26K. The BL-5C is one of just 14 different batteries used in Nokia products. Be sure to check the list here if you’re the unlucky one who happened to have a battery on your Nokia cellphone that falls into the high-risk category.

via [engadget]

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7 Responses to “Nokia’s BL-5C branded batteries at risk of exploding – 46 millions of Nokia phone users could be affected!”

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swordie Says:
August 14th, 2007 at 6:36 am
ooo come on!!!… 26K for loosing a leg??? u kidding or wat??? gosh…
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ketyung Says:
August 14th, 2007 at 6:30 pm
Yeah, I do feel 26K is simply too little for the compensation of losing a leg….. I only realized after publishing this post 2cheap for Nokia …. haha …
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swordie Says:
August 14th, 2007 at 10:36 pm
yeah… cheap nokia… but nokia was my favourite cell before i change to Windows Mobile… but i still insterested with it N95 5megapix camera
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ketyung Says:
August 14th, 2007 at 10:53 pm
yeah. Nokia N95 was once in my wish list… I’m now using a dopod instead ,,, haha
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prakash tiwale Says:
August 21st, 2007 at 10:48 pm
battery no 06704004620400114F20505062
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david Says:
January 29th, 2008 at 10:55 am
MOTORLA exploded a phone in my house I had a $35000 fire thay sent me a new phone .but no money for the fire thay dont stand behind what thay sell
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March 7th, 2008 at 8:00 am
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