I am looking to purchase 1 or 2 new N800 batteries. Is the battery for the N770/N92 the same as the one for the N800? I know I get what I pay for but, ebay has some really cheap prices for the battery. Anyone have any experience with them? Should I shell out the $50.00 for a new original battery?

I don't really care if I don't get the same amount of time on the generic battery, but I don't want the batter to blow up either.

Thanks for the time.

The battery for the N800 and the 770 are identical; don't know about the N95 - can't help you with the generics - I've only bought the originals.

Not much to offer, but I hope it helps. K.

If it was me, I'd buy the cheapo Hong Kong batteries. If you look carefully, you can also find a charger that works great, for about $10 counting shipping. I have had three of the cheapo batteries and only one is going strong. One I got for free with the $10 charger, and it never worked properly, and I didn't even realize I was getting it. Actually it worked, but it fit the N800 compartment so tightly that I damaged it on removing it one day (it actually said Nokia on it and I suspect it was a real Nokia battery).

One worked great for more than six months and then it suddenly seemed too small! It didn't fit properly in the charger any more, so I no longer use it.

The last one is indistinguisible in performance from the real Nokia.

You can say this is spotty; to me, I got my money's worth on all of them and am quite happy. The charger was the best deal of all. I almost never charge batteries in the N800 any more.

Geez, geneven, I know you were happy, but that REALLY sounds like an advertisement for official batteries.

Try a local Batteries+ store.
That's one thing I really hate about the states when compared to Europe and Asia: hard to find batteries for Nokia phones.
If you're in Chicago or New York City go to one of the Nokia flagship stores there or if some kind soul on these forums is in one of those places perhaps they can help you out.

Well, I bought a 14.00 one form the hong kong guy on ebay, and placed another order for a duracell battery for 21.00 shipped. I would like to buy the geniune one from the Nokia website, but at 59.95 that was too steep for my pocketbook.
I hope that both are good, but chances are at least one is a good battery. I guess i'll report back to this thread with my informal findings.

The N800 battery, the Nokia BP-5L, is also used in the Nokia E61, E61i and E62. If a battery is compatible with these phones, it should work in the N800 as well.

I seriously wouldn't advise buying unofficial, it may damage your device and it may even damage you in extreme circumstances. It's also such a tiny difference in price compared to the cost of the device itself.


Just because it says Nokia doesn't mean a thing, fake batteries are so profitable that the unofficial manufacturers will go to great lengths to make their batteries look official.

The only way to tell whether your battery is genuine is to examine the hologram sticker on the back, scratch off the black coating along its edge, and enter the revealed serial number on the Nokia battery authentication website:

http://europe.nokia.com/A4382228

This sounds extreme, but they had some really bad publicity here in Europe a few years back when a string of fake Nokia batteries exploded. When it emerged that they were fakes, Nokia said "it's okay, we had nothing to do with it, they were fakes", but they were such convincing fakes that the press said "if we can't tell real from fake, how can we trust any batteries?". This is why Nokia started adding scratch-off serial number panels, so people dared to buy replacement batteries.

And Nokia genuine batteries never had any problem, right?

I too am looking for a reliable place (USA) to order a N800 spare battery. I for sure want a Nokia BP-5L..not a generic..Nokia USA site says "out of stock"..

Thanks in advance people..

I bought my spare BP-5L battery from www.mobilecityonline.com. They are selling them for $49.99, and as far as I know, the battery is authentic.