And yet they still fit in the 'phone? Amazing what they can do these days...

Can you link a nokia press release or anything for this? I have 2 of these balooned batteries and they dont want to replace them :(

I would have thunk that a battery would have to swell considerably less than "several times it's original size" for the phone cover not to fit on... in fact just a few percent would probably do it.

This problem of batteries ballooning out of the back of the phone could be simply dealt with the same way I have dealt with my ballooning rear - use an elasticated material to cover the back side. I'm sure manufacturers of the maternity wear I've taken to buying would happily supply material with enough give in it.

I see I was not the only one who had to check twice at the claim of "swelling several times original size". Amazing ability to stretch and still hold onto the insides !

Meanwhile, what an appalling case of built in obsolescence. Still; wish my savings would do the same.

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Tomorrow's press release from Nokia will inform the world of its hasty patent for a new form of Viagra!

I currently have an N73 that I got as an upgrade from 3 Ireland. It is one of the worst phones I have had. The battery on occasion gets hot and discharges, I have exchanged it, and as simple thing like opening the GMail app takes an age. I am traveling to France in a week and a half, so I am being careful with the money, but on my return I'm getting rid.

I think this handset is supplied with a Lithium Polymer rather than Ion.

Note sure whether these are affected in the same way but are a different chemistry.

Like Nick Bentley, my experience is that Nokia aren't admitting to anything, let alone giving replacements. Suspect this is because there hasn't been a formal advisory like there is for the BL-5C, so the customer service people don't know anything about it. I was advised to just take my phone to a Care Point to be looked at (for a few days?). It's pretty obvious what's happened - the battery hasn't swelled more than a few mm, but it's enough to look like the Incredible Hulk as he starts to burst out of his clothes....

pctechxp - the BP-6M is a lithium polymer battery, at least that's what it says on the back.....