[SIZE="2"]I have blogged this before, and I have spoken to many people with the same problem, that the new N-series chargers are just not up to their stuff.
I know for many months now I have had to put my phone on charge and wiggle/rotate the charger before it latches on to something and charges. You can tell its just a lose connection because when you push the cable a bit it starts charging fine.
When I phoned O2, my service provider, they were very happy to replace it, but what they neglected to mention was that they did not have it in stock, so when I phoned up 2 weeks later they suggested I buy it from Nokia and they reimburse me.
Now I'm a student, and incurring those costs are not at the top of my list, so I left it, cos it worked... just.
Well last night I had a dream, nothing like Martin Luther King had envisaged, more of a nightmarish world where the front of my N80 had fallen off and I was running around trying to get it put back on without having to pay for it, funny thing was, although the phone was in 2 parts, it seemed to work fine. Should have realised at the time that a remote screen would have been awesome!
Anyway, when I woke up this morning my phone had fallen off my side table, no doubt because I had knocked it in my unconscious hell. Then, when I managed to regain full control of my faculties and look for my phone, this had happened to my charger:
(Taken with my N80).
You may notice it's a bit nackered. More precisely the pin is no longer straight, and in-fact has tares in it, and of course it won't charge at all. So straight on to the phone to O2 and they said they will still replace it. Perfect! - Who said O2 customer service was crap?
They also suggested if I had the USB data cable, the phone can charge off that. Anyone else know that? I would check, but I can't find my data cable.
But it makes me think, are Nokia's new N-series (and E-series?) chargers really up to the job? I guess they are the probably the first generation of the series, and they are going to be improvements as production costs become lower. However it is still annoying that you would never see an old style charger do anything like that on a 2"6'/75cm drop on to carpet.
Another point, why did Nokia change the design at all? It's not like the old style was broken, and on the N80 at least, there is plenty of room for the larger pin. Also the change in style means that I can't charge my phone in as many places as I used to.
Anyway this has turned in to another epic post, and my second thread in a week, so I'm going to calm down now, and let you guys mull it over.
Do you guys have similar experiences? What do you think of the new charger? Can I really charge my phone with the data cable? If I can find it.[/SIZE]