Official or Aftermarket Battery?

[Clingy]

For HTC HD2 extended battery in my case

£10-£15 for aftermarket
£30-£35 for HTC one

Anyone any experience of these or similar?

[Funkstar]

Other than the ones that ship with the products, I haven't used an official battery in any of the following: HTC TyTN II, Canon 40D dSLR. Canon 350D dSLR, Sanyo Xacti HD2000, Xacti HD800, Panasonic DMC-TZ3.

Never had a problem

[LOLMAN]

I seen some fake blackberrys with a dual sim sockets in them. I was told they was original, i dont think so tho.

[chrestomanci]

Ocasonaly device manufactuers will say that aftermarket batteries are not safe, or have much lower capacity, so it is worth checking that the capacicy of the aftermarket battery has the capacity that you expect. I was on a site today selling non branded batteries for Nokia, and some of the batteries they sold only had half the capacity of the offical nokia version.

The other thing you ocasonaly hear about is that the device manufactuers put DRM chips in their original battery, and if the device does not detect the chip, it disables power saving so the battery runs flat in a matter of hours and looks to be low quality. I have not heard of HTC doing that, but it would be worth doing an internet search to see if there are any reports.

[caliston]

Also, fake battery manufacturers lie. It may say 2000mAh on the side, but that doesn't necessarily mean they haven't fitted a 1000mAh and packed the rest of the space with filler. You'd have a job proving this. Or the battery may be a factory reject - it'll work for a while and then die. So be wary of cheap batteries from places like eBay or China.

[muppet_hat]

Yeah... go with original manufacture's battery. The last thing you want is your battery exploding or running out when you need your phone the most. It's not worth the hassle!

[socko5000]

going for offical battery is proberly best as have had friends who bought unoffical ones which after just under a year either stop working or overheated and knackered the phone.