New N95 Battery?

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Seejay89 wrote:Does anyone think/know of Nokia making a longer lasting battery for the N95?

Nokia are not able to make long lastin battry as lithium are patented(these r best round) dnt buy 1's dat r not branded as work in a mobile shop and ave seen 1's eat ave exploded

Hey,

I dont know if Nokia make the batterys themselves or not but they are fully capable of supplying a larger capacity battery that would suit the N95 I am sure.

Perhaps in time they will do so, but we shall see.

Ian

coolice wrote:Hey,

I dont know if Nokia make the batterys themselves or not but they are fully capable of supplying a larger capacity battery that would suit the N95 I am sure.

Perhaps in time they will do so, but we shall see.

Ian

Its probably possible to make a longer lasting battery using a different technology, but it would cost considerably more than existing Li-ion batteries - would you be happy to pay �100 for a battery that lasted 50% longer?

Personaly I am happy with the standard Nokia battery which lasts me 2 to 3 days since the recent V12 firmware update

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Hey,

No, I'm sorry to say you are mistaken.

It is entirely possible to make larger capacity batterys in the same technology, in this case Li-Ion.
Nokia do already make/sell larger capacity Li-Ion cells, an example is their N73 which uses an 1100mah (If I remember correct from when I had mine) Li-Ion cell which does fit the N95, however the connections from battery to phone are different so it will not work.

Check out the forum post where members were trying their N73 batterys to see if they worked.

I use Li-Ion/Lithium Polymer batterys in another hobby of mine and know a great deal about what the technology is capable of. You can buy the above batterys in varying capacitys and voltages, obviously in the case of a mobile they only require a single cell which rates at 3.7 volts.
I use Li-Ion cells of 2400 mah capacity and Lithium Polyer cells of 4000 mah, with voltages up to 25.2 volts.

A common misconception is that Li-Ion need regular cycling (charge ~ discharging) to keep them at their best, this is wrong as the more you use a Li-Ion cell the less it's life span will be.

At the end of the day the technology is there to make the higher capacity cell for the N95, it's just if the powers that be choose to make us one.

Ian

coolice wrote:Hey,

No, I'm sorry to say you are mistaken.

It is entirely possible to make larger capacity batterys in the same technology, in this case Li-Ion.
Nokia do already make/sell larger capacity Li-Ion cells, an example is their N73 which uses an 1100mah (If I remember correct from when I had mine) Li-Ion cell which does fit the N95, however the connections from battery to phone are different so it will not work.

Check out the forum post where members were trying their N73 batterys to see if they worked.

I use Li-Ion/Lithium Polymer batterys in another hobby of mine and know a great deal about what the technology is capable of. You can buy the above batterys in varying capacitys and voltages, obviously in the case of a mobile they only require a single cell which rates at 3.7 volts.
I use Li-Ion cells of 2400 mah capacity and Lithium Polyer cells of 4000 mah, with voltages up to 25.2 volts.

A common misconception is that Li-Ion need regular cycling (charge ~ discharging) to keep them at their best, this is wrong as the more you use a Li-Ion cell the less it's life span will be.

At the end of the day the technology is there to make the higher capacity cell for the N95, it's just if the powers that be choose to make us one.

Ian

You seem to have researched this in much more detail than i have but the obvious question is if its so easy to produce a 1200mah li-ion battery, why dont all mobile manufacturers supply this capacity on every model as standard?

Hey,

Batterys and their technology is just something I know a lot of due to using them in other things as well.

Thats a good question, if the technology & machines are there to make the larger batterys why not equip the N95 in this case with a better battery?
The simple answer has got to be that the N95 was deemed to not need much more than the 950mah battery is was shipped with. However we all know that if Nokia's R&D department had done their homework then they would have seen that 950mah in a phone with so much onboard doesn't last long.
Having said that did they know it would only last a couple of days with average use and think this was acceptable?

In any case the users (us) have to be prepared with either office or car chargers at the ready to keep our phones going.

There are already aftermarket batterys springing up that supposedly have larger capacitys to increase the phones operating time between charges, but knowing the cheaply made batterys and their past history do we really want to risk our precious phones using them? 😮

Hurry up Nokia, offer us an uprated battery 😊 All you got to do is change the connection terminals to suit the N95 on a cell which already fits.

Ian