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Nokia cell phone users, listen up: There's been a recall of up to 46 million Nokia BL-5C batteries, which are at risk of overheating during charging, causing it to short-circuit and dislodge from the phone. Around the world there have been over 100 occurrences of this problem, though none have led to any serious consequences as of yet.

The batteries were manufactured by Matsushita, and have the BL-5C marker on them. Go to this Nokia page to start the process of getting a replacement battery.