one can procure "oem" batteries on ebay. the general discussion on howard's list is that they are not really oem, but somewhat inferior. the do beat a blank.
next time, buy brand name(nokia) batteries are readily available. At 11:20 AM 1/11/2009, you wrote: >There' s been a great deal of discussion here about unlocking used >cell phones, and I assume that this means using the phones for several >years. Correct? > >But what about obtaining batteries? My experience with a LG phone on >Sprint, and a friends ?? phone on Verizon, is that at about three >years of use we needed a new battery, and could not find a new battery >on the web or from the carrier. We did see advertisements on the web >for "refurbished" batteries. [Sure. They opened the battery and >renewed the chemicals. Uh huh.] > >Is there a list of equivalent, new cell phone batteries? > >What do you do about keeping a phone after the battery doesn't hold a >charge for very long? > > >************************************************************************* >** List info, subscription management, list rules, archives, privacy ** >** policy, calmness, a member map, and more at http://www.cguys.org/ ** >************************************************************************* ************************************************************************* ** List info, subscription management, list rules, archives, privacy ** ** policy, calmness, a member map, and more at http://www.cguys.org/ ** *************************************************************************
