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  When you install the extended battery, you’ll notice that it no longer sits flush with the inside like with the regular battery.  It pops up and thus the standard battery cover cannot be used.   

Basically since the battery is fatter, they created another batter cover that would make the profile smooth and goes up to the camera area.  The result is profile that’s “filled out” to the thickness of the camera buldge at the top of the phone.

 

 

One thing you’ll also notice is “cutouts” on each side of the battery door cover so that the swing-out covers for the ports on each side can open and give you access to the USB port and MicroSD card slot.

 

Good niews, the extended battery fits into the originally provided battery charger module:

 

It is also MUCH easier to take the battery cover off and on.  This was a major complaint with the standard battery cover.  You had to force the cover off somehow, usually incorporating useless efforts of yelling “abracadabra!” and “open sesame!” to the phone and hoping that you could force that darn cover to come off.  The exact opposite is true with the new cover.  It actually comes off TOO easily in my opinion.  I recently lightly tumbled the phone onto the desk and POP, the phone, extended battery and battery cover flew apart like some acrobatic show of electronic parts.  It wasn’t a drop, it wasn’t thrown down.  It was a light tumble from 2 inches off the desk and this explosion happened.. 

It is also MUCH easier to take the battery cover off and on.  This was a major complaint with the standard battery cover.  You had to force the cover off somehow, usually incorporating useless efforts of yelling “abracadabra!” and “open sesame!” to the phone and hoping that you could force that darn cover to come off.  The exact opposite is true with the new cover.  It actually comes off TOO easily in my opinion.  I recently lightly tumbled the phone onto the desk and POP, the phone, extended battery and battery cover flew apart like some acrobatic show of electronic parts.  It wasn’t a drop, it wasn’t thrown down.  It was a light tumble from 2 inches off the desk and this explosion happened.. ….but who’s complaining?  I now have 3 batteries and the extended battery allows me to fully utilize video and other battery hogging activities like bluetooth without worries of loosing access to my phone because of poor battery life.

It is also MUCH easier to take the battery cover off and on.  This was a major complaint with the standard battery cover.  You had to force the cover off somehow, usually incorporating useless efforts of yelling “abracadabra!” and “open sesame!” to the phone and hoping that you could force that darn cover to come off.  The exact opposite is true with the new cover.  It actually comes off TOO easily in my opinion.  I recently lightly tumbled the phone onto the desk and POP, the phone, extended battery and battery cover flew apart like some acrobatic show of electronic parts.  It wasn’t a drop, it wasn’t thrown down.  It was a light tumble from 2 inches off the desk and this explosion happened.. ….but who’s complaining?  I now have 3 batteries and the extended battery allows me to fully utilize video and other battery hogging activities like bluetooth without worries of loosing access to my phone because of poor battery life.Now this phone is really a killer smartphone on the market.