Ebay is selling the N900 Battery 1930mAh. As per them, it fits the N900 perfectly, but the Q is:

1)-Is it going to have negative impact on the device in near future?
2)-Is it advisable to get it?

Here it is:
http://cgi.ebay.co.uk/ws/eBayISAPI.d...%3DI%26otn%3D1

Regards

I get worried with third party power sources. I guess the main concern I have is with consistent output/heat.

yea, exactly-this what i was thinking of as well- (overheating)

And again, the bootleg Chinese eBay batteries show up. Buy at your own risk, chances are it has less than half the advertised capacity.

i will purchase it in a week time !! lemme see

battery capacity normally varies with thickness and size .... better to watch out of bloating during trial period ...

just my thoughts ...

This story (http://gizmodo.com/5539192/a-cellpho...ded-in-my-face), and other similar ones is why I am hesitant to purchase third-party batteries in general. Buying a battery off eBay is even less appealing to me.

I carry my cellphone close to my body, and hold it up to my face when I take a call. I would rather go with trusted battery manufacturers - I think this reduces the risk of something really bad happening. I would prefer knowing the provenance of an object with explosive power.

LOL, u r right?

a) Both batteries are made in China.

b) Some go through a better check than others, but explosions are in 99.9% of the cases due to sun/heat exposure, overcharging, bad conditions or manufacturing defects that are undetectable at manufacture time.

c) Companies like Dell, Sony, etc, all recalled millions of products due to battery mishaps. What they don't admit is that in many, many of those cases the fault lies in the hardware. No matter. What we see here is that no brand name is a good enough shield for failure. Any breach of battery exterior, any overvoltage, any heat increase beyond cascade point, and you have yourself a YouTube movie.

d) With true monitoring, like N900 has, the risk of a blow is all but nil. Voltage is measure with a fine enough grain that it's impossible to overcharge. Overheating isn't a problem unless you actively heat the device to failure point. As for defects, good luck with that. I mean it.

e) Many manufacturers of devices go to "oh screw it" mode when charging. That is, they intentionally overcharge the battery and expect the battery electronics to cut off as needed. The drawback is that if it malfunctions, it's ruin or blow depending on how fast you charge. If they would monitor the darned things the failure rate would be a lot less. But then again, that blow at such a nice rate they don't bother.

You can, of course, do whatever you like, it's not as easy to spread fact as it is to fear monger. And the fact that Lithium chemistry inherently has catastrophic failure doesn't really help.

Electronic cutoff of battery charge voltage isn't news. A failure is. And selective memory works. For every million batteries that cuts voltage every day for years there's one that doesn't. And if the device is cheap, you risk failure.

By buying a no-name battery you increase the chance of catastrophic failure by a percentage so small it's funny.

If there's something you really do risk is not getting the advertised capacity. Or not getting a battery at all. Or a dead one. All of the above works with an orange.

Just putting risk into perspective.

Oh, and, about the link you provided. That guy either is the most lucky person in the known history, or the dolt backed the seat over the phone, shorting it (might not be his fault, the seat apparently self-backs up). With watts hour of energy stored in there, shorting it by physical damage is going to AT LEAST get you a fire.

I feel sorry for him, but we all want bigger and bigger batteries. More energy stored. That translates into a bigger blast radius.

It matters not what brand the grenade was if you dropped it in the car and the pin got loose.

ill bet it is 600mAh or less because I have never seen a higher rating on a 3rd party. They are always chines knock off that are advertised incorrectly. (Obviously not always true but a good bet) Purchase a official battery as a back-up.