For the first time in history, Nokia has recalled 46 million BL-5C Batteries for an replacement,so do check if your cell phone’s battery is one among them.Kindly see below the circular issued by Nokia which is self explainatory:

“Dear Nokia Customer,

This is a product advisory for the Nokia-branded BL-5C battery manufactured by Matsushita Battery Industrial Co. Ltd. of Japan between December 2005 and November 2006. This product advisory does not apply to any other Nokia battery.

Nokia has identified that in very rare cases the affected batteries could potentially experience over heating initiated by a short circuit while charging, causing the battery to dislodge. Nokia is working closely with relevant local authorities to investigate this situation.

Nokia has several suppliers for BL-5C batteries that have collectively produced more than 300 million BL-5C batteries. This advisory applies only to the 46 million batteries manufactured by Matsushita between December 2005 and November 2006. There have been approximately 100 incidents of over heating reported globally. No serious injuries or property damage have been reported.

Consumers with a BL-5C battery subject to this advisory should note that all of the approximately 100 incidents have occurred while charging the battery. According to Nokia’s knowledge this issue does not affect any other use of the mobile device. Concerned consumers may want to monitor a mobile device while charging that contains a BL-5C battery subject to this product advisory.

While the occurence in the BL-5C batteries produced by Matsushita in the time-period specified is very rare, for consumers wishing to do so, Nokia and Matsushita offer to replace for free any BL-5C battery subject to this product advisory.

The BL-5C batteries which are subject to the product advisory were used with the following Nokia models or separately as accessories:

Nokia 1100, Nokia 1100c, Nokia 1101, Nokia 1108, Nokia 1110, Nokia 1112, Nokia 1255, Nokia 1315, Nokia 1600, Nokia 2112, Nokia 2118, Nokia 2255, Nokia 2272, Nokia 2275, Nokia 2300, Nokia 2300c, Nokia 2310, Nokia 2355, Nokia 2600, Nokia 2610, Nokia 2610b, Nokia 2626, Nokia 3100, Nokia 3105, Nokia 3120, Nokia 3125, Nokia 6030, Nokia 6085, Nokia 6086, Nokia 6108, Nokia 6175i, Nokia 6178i, Nokia 6230, Nokia 6230i, Nokia 6270, Nokia 6600, Nokia 6620, Nokia 6630, Nokia 6631, Nokia 6670, Nokia 6680, Nokia 6681, Nokia 6682, Nokia 6820, Nokia 6822, Nokia 7610, Nokia N70, Nokia N71, Nokia N72, Nokia N91, Nokia E50, Nokia E60

“Nokia” and “BL-5C” are printed on the front of the battery. On the back of the battery, the Nokia mark appears at the top, and the battery identification number (consisting of 26 characters) is found at the bottom. If the battery identification number does not contain 26 characters, it is not subject to this product advisory.

If you are interested to know if your battery is part of this product advisory, please follow the two steps below:

1) Switch off your mobile device and check the battery model. If your battery is not a BL-5C model, you are not included in this product advisory and your product will not be replaced.

2) If your battery is a BL-5C model, remove the battery and check the 26-character identification number from the back of the battery. Enter the identification number in the field below and you will be advised if your battery may be replaced.

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Hello Friends,well this is my first topic in here and I am gonna start with reviewing one of the latest and most awaited gizmo of this year,the all new NOKIA N95.I got a chance to play around with this so called mini computer and I assure you guys its quite promising and NOKIA’s claims of N95 being a mini computer arent false anyways,Well as soon as you open the box of this so called mini computer you will see the following things: usb data cable, tv-out cable, 2 piece headset, charger, manual, cd, battery and the n95…. no memory card as stated in the manual (I guess they have started giving memory card along).

THE BUILD, to be honest i wasnt expecting it to be great build quality as its a slider fone…. BUT its so solid, the slide dont wobble 1 tiny bit, the fone itself also feels solid and no creaky parts, the phone isnt much bigger than the n80, and its thinner than N80.FIRST BOOT UP, the n95 starts quicker than n80IE, not by much though, the Nokia tune on start up sounds nice due to the twin speakers, the screen is HUGE, and nice and bright, I installed handy taskman and on a clean boot i have 22.4mb of free RAM, the screen isnt as good as the n80 but it is better than the old 176 x 208 screen.

THE USER INTERFACE (UI), theres 5 new themes, all are very nice, the menu is the same as n80 but u have the option to use annimated icons, they move wen u navigate around the menu, on the main screen the wLAN scanning is there like on n80ie, settings has changed abit, theres now setting options for GENERAL, PHONE, CONNECTION and APPLICATIONS then as u enter each of those settings theres more to truly customise the look of the UI, u can also change font size, SMALL, NORMAL and LARGE, also the themes app has changed abit, in themes u now have GENERAL, MENU VIEW, WALLPAPER and POWER SAVER options, as u enter then u have a host of settings to chose, preinstaled apps are ok, u get zip mannager, adobe, quick office, 3-D tones app bluetooth keybord app, u also get lifeblog, barcode scanner and maps, gps and landmarks, very nice, the multimedia button gives u a nice view of an aragment aff apps that u can choose to add to the multimedia menu, and u can also personalise it with background images etc.The music player is spot on, much better than any nokia music player ive used, it looks so much better, also theres an 8 band equaliser, stereo widening, ballance and loudness options, also u have VISUALIZATIONS as ur music plays, a nice touch IMO, the sound on the built in twin speakers is amazing, its better than the n73 and probably on par with the n91 but with 2 speakers,the gallery looks diferent from the n80 etc, looks much nicer now, u can also set an animation as a screen saver nice, the n95 includes a better keypad lock, it auto locks wen the slide is closed, the alarm is also improved as u can now set multiple allarms and repeat days etc, theres a new video center app that lets u stream and download vids from routers, you tube and nokia.

CAMERA/VIDEO, 1 word summs it up…. GREAT, the cam is fantastic, quite alot of options in image mode, more than any s60 iv seen, auto focus in portrait works great and in macro the auto focus is faultless, takes around 2 seconds to save a pic taken at 5mp,the video recording is very good, even in low light conditions, and the frame rate is graet, the quality is to good to be true from a fone, both image and vid mode use the whole 2.6 screen as a viewfinder, no annoying bars at top or bottom, not tried editing as of yet.TV-OUT, this is a cool feature as it alows u to see ur fone on the big screen, the video that came with the n95 was like viewing a DVD on my tv, however when viewing fones menu etc it isnt as good,DUEL SLIDE, wen u slide it up to use ur keypad its same as any other slider, but wen u slide it down ur multimedia menu opens automaticly, u can choose what u want to do, watch media, stream etc, or just hit play and ur music will start or u can change it so if u press play ur movies start instead, its a great way to listen and watch ur files, the screen rotates in under 1 second, very fast, the 330 mhz ARM CPU works a treat, fast menus etc, i havnt realy used the new browser much so i wont comment on it just yet, there is a few minor bugs, the worse 1 is wifi keeps disconecting every now and then the browser now takes up alot less RAM than on os9.1 handsets, also there now is only the WEB browser, no services browser anymore as the new 1 handels both wap and web.Wifi is working fine, I changed my routers radio chanel to 13 from 6 and my n95 now holds onto the signal, RAM, wen using the new browser i havnt yet had any mem low warnings and iv been browsing all day and using heavy pages like howard forums, the ram stays around 7mb wen using the browser, and if i exit the ram goes bak up to around 19mb, no ram leakage at all.The new v2 safari browser is spot on, it has a search option but for sum reason it dnt have a search for web address option in page, i hope they add this in next FW, the browsers setup options luk a bit dif from the old safari browser but has the same options,browsing is great, its very fast at opening pages, howard only takes around 6 seconds to load the whole forum page, also once ur browsing u have an option to rotate the screen, no need to move the slide to rotate it, also it has clear cache, history, cookies and passwords, u can clear them all at once or individualy, it also has a toolbar… The toolbar has 4 options, recent links, page overview, refresh and search, a nice touch IMO, u can save web feeds or select to save them automaticly, u can also subscribe to feeds etc, it loads images fast and sound, also adobe flash files (adobe flash 7 content only) so no youtube but thats what the vid centre app is for, also the browser auto saves logins/passwords,and if u rotate the screen it uses no extra RAM than in normal mode.

Well I desire to own one of this mini computer soon and thats what I have for now but I shall come back and post with some more updates on N95 and other gizmos.

- Pragnesh Karia.

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