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Techeye discovers swollen Nokia battery problem

28.05.10

. Nokia hasn't officially acknowledged there's an subject with this particular battery model. But a participant on a Nokia Support Forum advises to keep well of it.

His factual words were ... "For God's sake, don't use that battery. If it's swelling it's evolving gas, which means it's chemically shameful. When (not if) it eventually breaks, the lithium metal in the battery will oxidise aggressively in air in a behaviour technically referred to as 'Holy **Bleep**, my leg is on fire'." See here .

A origin at Nokia said, "I’m not aware of any issues with the BP-5L. Certainly you should get it checked out as battery distortion is normally down to some form of external influence (charging issues, etc)."

He also aculeous out, "All of our batteries have a number of safety features, thermal merge, electrical fuse and venting devices." Sadly, the battery can't be replaced for disengage as Nokia lists batteries as consumables in its warranty here .

Our source rejected any similarity between the BP-5L battery and the BP-5C where Nokia did fess up that there was a problem and offered a free replacement. (See here ).

Source: Tech Eye