Sony Ericsson k800i battery compartment

How hard can it be to open the battery compartment?

Well, with the current task at hand - the Sony Ericsson K800i - this actually was a problem.

The story begins the other day when my girlfriend buys herself a brand new mobile phone. She opens the battery compartment and inserts the battery for charging. So far so good.

Two hours later she decides to insert the SIM card into the phone.

That was easier said than done. Even how hard we tried - me, my girlfriend and a friend present at that time - we could not open the lid. We pushed so hard on the phone that we started to worry about breaking the phone.

We went to Lefdal to ask for some help. At the service department we talked to the man behind the counter. He looked at the phone for a second, and then opened the lid on the phone...

The conclusion

I'm not sure if there is any good conclusion to this issue. What we did wrong was how we tried to open the compartment lid. We used the thumb as shown in the documentation. Lefdal used the palm of the hand.

There are three locks to keep the lid closed. The yellow mark the one you have to push down. The red marks are locks to keep the lid in place. Just slide left (given the picture) and you are set.

Easy or what? :)