man from boltons no responce = house burned down? i swear i smelt burning here in manchester a couple days ago

so guys do u suggest this battery or not??

Luckly no fires yet! lol

I used this second battery twice now and it seems very similar to the original. I will do a benchmark test by fully charging them and playing a video til it runs out and see how the times differ

If you are referring to the 1930Mah super battery, I would say no. In the best case it would as good as the Nokia genuine. Then you might as well buy genuine and know that it will really be 1320Mah.

I was considering asking the chineese manufacturer if they can rebrand it for me to Triple Platinum(Gold is for loosers) and make it state 31,930Mah, nuclear powered. Maybe that would sell better? Perhaps for $15?

hmm to be honest i think this whole battery market is a mess.
when i started with AA batteries you could buy rechargeable ones with 650mAh now (nearly 20 year later) you can get 3000mAh batteries. But the technologie changed from NiCd to NiFe and NiMH to nowadays LSD NiMH batteries.
so with new technologies and some time these amount of increase is understandable.

but if it comes to Li-Ion or LiPoly then i think differently. The higher capacities had been quite expensive at the beginning so companies used to sell 750mAh, 850mAh or even 1000mAh batteries without letting the customers know what they get. They simply used their own format and put their own label, with a strange name, on the battery.
especially Nokia is such a company. they produce several different mobiles with different battery types. and after a while they switch back to old known types. but now they can't just rename them and sell them with more mAh. the new batteries could be used in the old devices as well.
so they still sell the old types with the old specs, even if there are batteries with the same diameter and more mAh.

if i'm wrong show me the truth, but so far that is what i think. and i can't blame Nokia for it. if i had old products on stock i would try to sell them, as well.

on the other hand. i would always compare batteries to similar ones.
my Huawei e5830 has a huawei battery with similar diameters but an capacity of 1500mAh. so i would say that there is a possibility for 1500mAh batteries that could be used in the N900... but more then that.... nope not at the moment.

BL-5C which is probably the oldest Nokia battery still in use, has grown in capacity from 750 to 1000 over 10 or so years, iirc..

by the way, there are no 3000mAh AA nimh batteries, they're all lying.

If you have installed BatteryGraph earlier, you could check if the chart changes between the original and the new battery, like here. I think only objective easy way, if you look at the graph in 21 days window. The hard way would be to use powertop-program and alalyze after few full cycles.

@zimon does the batterygrapher have a daemon like battery-eye?

Hi
I bought one:

http://cgi.ebay.co.uk/ws/eBayISAPI.d...=STRK:MEWAX:IT

And first day using it. So far, its on 79% after 6 hrs, and thats with checking emails and about 40 mins of usings panucci podcast player. I am also running the n900 overclocked to 900.

mate can you use that battery measure app and see what the results are?

do a full charge and make some calls, say 20mins, run nokia maps, 20mins, surf 20mins. make some more calls, check emails, use wifi and 3G

if this is better then nokia one and actually last longer then i would get one!

cheers