Battery Recall - Nokia
Thursday, August 16, 2007 1:42After the battery recall fiascos by Sony and Dell, its Mobile giant Nokia’s turn to play the game…
The BL-5C battery which is installed in a massively huge number of models of Nokia mobile phones have been found defective. This battery has been manufactured by Matsushita Electric. The details are put up on the Nokia website here.
And from what I hear, the recommendations are that you stop using the battery immediately… Which kinda sounds silly as you were using the battery till Nokia came forward and said it is defective and my educated guesses are that people would continue using it had nokia not informed the ‘junta‘… 
Getting back to the actual news, now that Nokia has mentioned it, get your battery to a Nokia service centre and have it replaced. The website mentioned in the post also checks your battery serial number to see if your BL-5C battery falls into the set of defective batteries to be replaced… Mine is a BL-5C and does not need to be replaced…
So… Kewl there!!!
Himanshu Sheth says:
August 16th, 2007 at 11:54 am
As reported by the ET,it is reported that incident was not seen in India[don't know how far it is is true :)] but this news really spread like Fire.
I got calls from many places asking me whether I use Nokia and it was all because the brand involved in this case was NOKIA which is the top player in the Mobile industry.
More interesting would be to see how many ppl got their batteries replaced and how is the brand NOKIA affected after this incident[though it would be minimal]
-Himanshu Sheth