Indian Woman Hurt by Exploding Nokia Battery

By Michael Santo
Executive Editor, RealTechNews

Last month Nokia issued a massive battery recall, which we wrote about earlier. Unfortunately for this pregnant Indian woman, it didn’t include her battery, which was of a different series, and which exploded 10 minutes after she plugged it into the charger.

The battery that exploded was, however from the firm’s BL-D3 series, and not from BL-5C that Nokia recalled a month ago, police said.

“The injuries were not serious. She was discharged from the hospital after first aid,” police official Ananda Sarkar told AFP in eastern Kolkata city.

The battery — purchased with the handset in 2004 — blew up about 10 minutes after it was put on charge. Source: Yahoo! News

We Say: Nokia said that if the charger, battery, and phone proved to be original Nokia equipment, they would compensate the woman.