Heheh... take my advice, for BIC and Dino, their posted reviews worth less than zero. All honest reviews are blocked, all shills and spams are let through. ESPECIALLY Dino, right Dinoboy?
BIC, for example, normally won't allow anything less than FULL 5 stars review to be posted. I've tried. But at least it has a discussion thread. Your best bet would be to use info based on that.
On the bright side, I do believe these Sanyos are genuine.
Just to try out I’ve bought 1 pcs of unprotected Panasonic 2900mAh from BiC and I’ve got geniue one. I’ve measured capacity of 2840mAh @ 3A and discharge curve is good too.
Have been lucky? Who knows. They didn’t publish my review as I’ve told them they raised prices by 19%. They drop price afterwards even lower as before. Current price is quite nice at $7.08.
Probably they are, but I can tell only for unprotected - see some posts above.
In fact I haven’t heard for any fake Panasonic yet. The prices implies geniue ones.
Sorry can’t tell as I have no caliper but I can show you this, the ruler and the cell both sit on a flat surface
And it’s Sanyo as per the description on the webpage
I've got my 2800mAh Samsung from BIC. Looks like very good quality, and the protection circuit seem to provide 4A+ direct drive without tripping so that's good.
Came in at 3.75V. I can only charge to 4.2V (these new Samsung need 4.3V for full charge) so I expect 90% capacity or something like that.
First discharge gave 2200mAh @ 1A.
Second discharge gave 2450mAh @1A.
As expected, the capacity is improving per charge. I'd expect this to reach around 2600(4.2V limit) after 2-3 more charges. So far so good, seem to be the real deal. The only con is, this is easily the longest battery I've owned, even longer than TF Flame 3000.