Saw this very interesting announcement by Nokia this morning in the Star. They have issued a nationwide recall of the BL-5C battery. Apparently a batch of these batteries made by Matsushita Battery Industrial Co. Ltd. of Japan between December 2005 and November 2006 were faulty. There were about 100 incidents where the battery overheats during charging and caused it to dislodge from the phone. So far, no serious injuries or property damages have been reported.

To check whether your battery is one of the affected ones, you may go to the following link:

http://www.nokia.com/batteryreplacement/en/

Here are the list of models using this battery:

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

The reason why I was alerted by this recall was because my company issues Nokia cell phones to a majority of the personnel, excluding management. Apparently, they get better perks and have a budget to choose their phone model.

So I alerted the managers on this and sure enough, today the whole company has been notified of this recall.

For those of you having the affected models, please go check the serial number on the Nokia webpage to determine if the battery was one of the affected models.