| Nokia warns that cell phone batteries could be dangerous / Up to 46 million, made in China, will be recalled
Nokia, the world's biggest cell-phone manufacturer, warned consumers Tuesday that up to 46 million of its handsets contain defective batteries made in China that could in rare cases overheat and even dislodge during recharging. The company, which has 38 percent of the global market in handsets, warned of potential danger from BL-5C Nokia-branded batteries made by a unit of Matsushita Electrical Industrial of Japan. Rick Simonson, Nokia's chief financial officer, said the company is offering to replace the batteries at no cost to consumers. He added that Matsushita had agreed to pay a significant portion of recall costs, which he could not estimate. Nokia said the lithium-ion batteries were made by Matsushita from December 2005 through November 2006 for more than 50 Nokia models, from the entry-level Nokia 1100 to more advanced models like the N70 and N7610.
Toshiba Recalls Sony-Made Batteries
Japanese electronics company Toshiba Corp. began recalling about 10,000 Sony-made batteries for laptop computers in Japan and overseas, company officials said Thursday. Toshiba spokesman Keisuke Omori said there have been three cases in which the batteries caught fire between September and June. There were no injuries from the three fires; two in Japan and one in Australia, he said. .
PC and Components
Toshiba has recalled more defective laptop batteries, the U.S. Consumer Product Safety Commission (CPSC) said last week, the latest move in a long-running problem with lithium-ion batteries made by Sony. According to a warning from the CPSC, batteries in some of Toshiba's Satellite A100, Satellite A105 and Tecra A7 notebooks built between January and April 2006 pose a fire hazard from overheating. Approximately 1,400 portable computers are affected by the recall, said the CPSC. The batteries due for call back are a subset of a recall issued by Toshiba less than four weeks ago that wasn't publicized by the CSPC. Then, the Japanese computer maker listed 17 different laptop lines as potentially equipped with defective batteries. An update to the Toshiba support document a day after the initial July 17 alert added the three systems called out by the CPSC last Thursday.
Toshiba Recalls Sony Batteries
Japanese electronics company Toshiba Corp. began recalling about 10,000 Sony-made batteries for laptop computers in Japan and overseas, company officials said Thursday. Toshiba spokesman Keisuke Omori said there have been three cases in which the batteries caught fire between September and June. There were no injuries from the three fires; two in Japan and one in Australia, he said. .
Toshiba recalls about 10,000 Sony-made batteries
Japanese electronics company Toshiba Corp. began recalling about 10,000 Sony-made batteries for laptop computers in Japan and overseas, company officials said today. Toshiba spokesman Keisuke Omori said there have been three cases in which the batteries caught fire between September and June. There were no injuries from the three fires; two in Japan and one in Australia, he said. The battery models to be recalled are different from those involved in a massive recall of Sony Corp. lithium-ion battery packs last year. Sony announced that recall after it was found that they could overheat and catch fire. In the latest case, company investigations found batteries manufactured on December 3, 2005, were a cause of the problems, and there were about 5,100 of them sold in Japan, the U.S., Europe, Australia, China, the spokesman said.
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