A few weeks ago I purchased a Nokia BP-6MT battery at a mobile phone shop (Fortuna GSM) in a local shopping mall (Pólus Center). I was looking for a replacement battery for my Nokia N82, because the battery I’ve been using for more than 2 years started to swell and even slightly deformed the back cover of the phone. The official Nokia store in the same mall didn’t have this particular battery in stock, but I kept looking around in other stores nearby, and eventually stumbled upon one in the above mentioned store. The packaging looked good, it even had a Nokia hologram — albeit a bit darker than the one on my original battery, but I haven’t noticed that in the store.
When I took it home and opened the packaging, I decided to google for instructions on how to check the authenticity of a Nokia battery. The hologram obviously failed the test, as you will see from my photos below. After that I started to notice other small signs, like the low quality printing of the included package insert. I decided not to risk damaging my phone or myself by using a counterfeit Nokia battery — they have the reputation to explode —, so I went out and bought an original from an official Nokia shop in a different shopping mall. The differences were painfully obvious after comparing the counterfeit and the original battery, so I decided to take a few pictures and post them here, maybe I can save somebody from buying a counterfeit Nokia BP-6MT battery.
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- Nokia BP-6MT Packaging (front)
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- Nokia BP-6MT Packaging (back)
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- Nokia BP-6MT Batteries (front)
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- Nokia BP-6MT Batteries (back)
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- Nokia BP-6MT Batteries (top)
The packaging of the counterfeit battery is quite different from the original, maybe they copied an older Nokia design. However, the colors and visual elements definitely have the Nokia feel, so they did a very good job at that. They even included a low-quality copy of the Nokia package insert, which — quite ironically — includes instructions on how to identify counterfeit batteries. But the most important clue when looking at the packaging from the front is the hologram sticker on the battery itself, which is a lot darker and lower quality on the counterfeit battery, presumably to keep the manufacturing costs down. The back of the packaging is less interesting, no obvious tell-tale signs there.
The shots of the batteries themselves show the differences between the holograms even better, and they also reveal a couple of minor differences in their shapes: the original battery has rounded corners and a little hole on both sides. Also, the label seems to fit a lot better on the original battery.
Awesome, that’s exactly what I was looking for! You just saved me alot of looking around
Wish I had seen this site sooner, I had gotten conned into one of those recently! Shame on me =(
Ah well, good post there buddy! Informative.
thanks for the information.. i need to change battery for my nokia E51.. 2years my battery worked gud.. nw started heating and the standby time reduced to 8hours.. how much the original battery cost..?
thank for the info..
because i need the battery for my nokia n82.
i used that more than 2 years…..
and now the battery has broke.
you can even tell that the first store was knowingly selling counterfeit products by the way they assigned the product code on the pricetag lol! anyways, thanks for going to the effort of posting pics, really helped a lot
btw, did you get a refund for the counterfeit battery? and if I may ask, what was the price difference?
hi…i just bought this origional betery..will u tell me that how long i charge it for the first time??
I got conned too, but in the end I bought an original one. 10 euro counterfeit, 20 euro original. 30 euro and a lot of time spent for a simple battery. What a world!
Kind of hard to tell what’s real and what isn’t as Nokia change the designs of their batteries and packaging from time to time.
My original BP-6MT battery looks different from both of those. I know mine is genuine because it came with my phone that I got from the official nokia UK shop (not online anymore)