Paul Dundas wrote: [...] > I had a similar problem - as you say, the wire is very fragile > (I would say "not of satisfactory quality", which is the legal > test to be able to get a refund in the UK - Not sure about Ireland > - though I bought it through the Irish site since they didn't > charge for postage :-) > > The local Nokia Service place couldn't help since it was not a > phone on the list of models they service. They offered to post > the whole thing away to Nokia for a while - even though we > could both see the copper sticking through the cable. > I declined. I went to the local Nokia Service Centre in Cork. They'd never heard of an N800 (no surprises there, then), but they had a big box of loose chargers, among which were several the same as the one supplied with the N800. They sold me one for ?29, which I thought was a bit shabby, seeing as they were obviously returns, and I rejected the first one because it didn't work. Unfortunately the second one, which appeared to work in the store, didn't work when I got home -- doubtless suffering from the same problem as my original. So I'll go back and wave the receipt at them and try to get a new one in a box rather than someone else's cast-off reject. The car charger I bought at the same time was new-in-box and works perfectly. > Returning stuff is more of a problem with mail-order goods. > > I "solved" the problem when I got a Nokia E50 (with a decently > robust wire coming out of the charger). It now charges both my > devices. My daughter's phone charger (smaller, with the wire coming out at the corner (!) works perfectly in the N800 but charges more slowly. It's actually plugged in right now so I won't disturb it by looking for its part number. ///Peter
