Canging "product code" on web bought ESeries & Nokia warranty?

dohouch

Thinking of buying an E51 either on Ebay or German web shop. Anxious about it coming with a non Euro product code, and therefore not being able to avail of prompt software updates, and if I nervously go ahead and flash with Euro product code that Nokia service centres here in Ireland will not honour the warranty.

Anybody with experience of being refused repairs under guarantee here in Ireland?
How can Irish Nokia centre tell what the original product code was and are they interested in checking it?

Thanks

Flying

It voids your warranty

neilled

If the handset is an unbranded EU model then you should receive the standard european firmware upgrades without having to change product codes. Assuming its bought new and you get proof of purchase then you could also get the product serviced in ireland.

dohouch

neilled wrote: »

If the handset is an unbranded EU model
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Thats the problem, I think it's possible that one might get a Russian or Asian model and the updates would follow a very different release cycle.

As far as I can see "product codes" only become public knowledge after the appearance of the each product line. There are lists of product codes on "Symbian Freak" but it seems to me these lists have been put together by interested people rather than released by Nokia.

So even after I get the phone I won't know what my "product code" means untill someone puts up a list that for that particular model, in my case prbabley E51, and it all just seems a bit hit and miss.
thanks

nazoil

The product code is on label in battery compartment. Ask the seller what it is and do a ggogle.
If you have a friend in a Nokia Centre, they can tell everything about a phone from the IMEI including it's sim lock status as it left the factory