Where to get a battery
 

I would like a spare battery for my 770. Where in the States would I get one? I'm not talking about one of the non-oem ebay ones. A real one.

Nokia dealer, local mobile phone shop? Nokia use the same battery in some of their phones.

The battery is a Nokia BP-5L. A brief Google sessions pulled up one place on the Internet to get them:

• Mobile Planet: $47.95

It seems that there are a few places to buy these. I couldn't even find it on the Nokia site.

Good luck.

-F

I got one on EBay for 10 dollars.

It works fine- just as good as the original,
but is made by a 3rd party company.

It is lithium ion like the original,
but is covered in white paper- looks cheesy,
but the price is right!

check out this link:
http://search.ebay.com/search/search...ery&category0=

DCarter

Just one caveat: a lot of the BP-5L lookalikes have a lower capacity than the Nokia original. The 770's battery packs 1500 mAH of juice, some copies come close to just about half that. I saw -- didn't buy! -- one in Thailand with 900 mAH.

Cheap? Yes. Convenient? Not so much...

and seeing how some of the "3rd party" ones have been known to leak or explode, I'd stay away from them.

Yup, I would like to stay away from the non-oem ones. Mobile planet is the only place I've seen them. Even the Nokia web site does not list them. I cannot find the batteries through Verizon, Cingular and T-mobile.

I see the Nokia-brand ones in just about every mobile phoneshop I've been into. I don't see the point in buying one, as stocking up on Li-ion batteries is not very smart: they just don't keep well. The best thing to do is wait until your current battery dies and then get a fresh one.

Maybe a tip: I recently bought a spare generic wallplug charger that came with a "reduction plug" (from the old Nokia large tip to the new small one that's on the 770 -- the tip is available separately from Nokia, but it costs almost as much as I paid for the charger). I subsequently used this reduction plug on one of those emergency mobile chargers that I had lying around (the ones you stick 4 AAA batteries in and plug into your mobile when there's no wallplug around) and the 770 happily chirped it was charging! If I did my maths right, I can get at least one full charge from 4 alkaline AAA's, which means I can run my 770 for as long as I can stuff AAA's in my backpack and sod to all the eco-solar crap. :D

Simple back-up charger.
 

I recently bought one of these at Bed, Bath & Beyond and got 20% off with a coupon that my wife had. I bought the one that comes with a Razr adapter (mini-USB) so that I can charge my phone and BT headset. Then I ordered the Nokia adapter directly from Turbo Charge here for about $5 delivered. The TurboCharge is small and uses a single double-A.

So... What do you think of it? thanks.

I have a turbocharge, as well. I find it very useful. I can usually get 1.5 hours of battery life from one battery.

It's odd to me that even though we have all of this advanced LiIon technology, we buy products that use the good ol' AA.

I can't help but think the TurboCharge is hideously expensive: I bought my emergency charger (for 4 AAA's) for 2.5 euro; granted, it's made out of the cheapest black plastic, but it also came with six adapters.

Granted, I did buy my spare wallplug charger for more than the price of the TurboCharge (EUR 19.95), mainly for the Nokia mini adapter, but that one came with a collection of adapters as well (including mini-USB).

I'm now cannibalizing a couple of those adapters to make an extension cable for the AAA-charger, so that i can use the 770 while it's charging.