Sharp asks laptop owners to return 28,000
batteries
By Tony Smith
16th October 2006 08:52 GMT
Sharp has become the latest laptop maker to ask its customers to
return Sony-made notebook batteries. Its recall of some
28,000 power packs came as Fujitsu increased the size of its own
battery recall by a further 51,000 units.
Sharp's recall focuses on its home market of Japan. Fujitsu's
recall is world wide in scope.
Sharp said seven of its machines were affected by the recall - the
PC-MR40J, PC-MR50H, PC-MR60HS, PC-MR80H,
PC-MR80HU, PC-MR80J and PC-MR8BH7 - and the company's CE-BL44
battery pack.
Like Fujitsu, Sharp said it was taking advantage of Sony's own
voluntary battery recall programme, initiated in September and
which only extends to laptop vendors. The Japanese notebook maker
was quick to claim it had had no reports of its products
overheating and catching fire as has been the case with some Dell
and Apple units, and possibly other vendors' machines.