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More Sony Batteries Recalled

Posted by kdawson on from the i-seem-to-recall dept.

Scott Hagerman passes along news of yet another recall of Sony laptop batteries. The batteries in question, manufactured in the same timeframe as those involved in the massive 2006 recall, are in laptops sold by HP, Dell, Toshiba, Lenovo, and Acer. Neither Apple nor Sony itself used these batteries in their laptops. This time 100,000 batteries are involved — 65,000 of them sold outside of the US — vs. the 10 million recalled in 2006. The Consumer Product Safety Commission fielded 19 reports of batteries overheating and/or catching fire.

4 of 42 comments (clear)

  1. Lenovo and Acer? by Anonymous Coward · · Score: 5, Informative

    I only see HP, Toshiba and Dell mentioned on the two linked to websites. Where do the mentions of Lenovo and Acer come from?

    1. Re:Lenovo and Acer? by gweilo8888 · · Score: 2, Informative

      Mod parent up. Neither Lenovo or Acer are mentioned in the official recall notice: http://www.cpsc.gov/cpscpub/prerel/prhtml09/09035.html

    2. Re:Lenovo and Acer? by richg74 · · Score: 2, Informative

      The CPSC notice page is here, and it makes no mention of Lenovo or Acer.

  2. known issue by Jerry+Smith · · Score: 3, Informative
    Already happened 13 years ago with Sony: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/PowerBook_5300#Batteries and http://findarticles.com/p/articles/mi_hb197/is_/ai_hibm1G117959276

    I wander why it's always their battery?

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