Fujitsu recalls a quarter million Sony batteries!!

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Fujitsu recalls a quarter million Sony batteries

More Sony woes

By INQUIRER staff: Wednesday 04 October 2006, 11:46

AS ANTICIPATED by the Japanese press last week, Fujitsu is the latest notebook vendor to recall battery packs.
The recall is for 287,000 battery packs worldwide. Details of some models are available here. Yesterday HP claimed it would be unaffected by the Sony recall.

http://www.fujitsu.com/global/news/pr/n20060929-01.html

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Fujitsu wants 287,000 Sony batteries back

By Tony Smith
4th October 2006 12:00 GMT

Fujitsu has become the latest notebook computer manufacturer to ask its customers to send back batteries made by Sony. Acer may be about to do the same.

Fujitsu today said it was recalling 287,000 Sony-made notebook batteries, Reuters reports. That's in addition to the 4.2m being recalled by Dell, 1.8m by Apple, 830,000 by Toshiba and 526,000 by Lenovo. Fujitsu's recall brings the total to over 7.6m units.

That will grow further if Acer announces a recall too. Earlier this week it emerged the company was in talks with Sony about the issue. Now, that's not a guarantee Acer will ask its customers to send batteries back, but Fujitsu likewise was initially reported to be discussing the problem with Sony and has now formally announced a recall.

It's not clear whether Fujitsu has received reports that any of its laptops overheated and caught fire as a number of other brands' machines have. Acer spokespeople were last week quoted as claiming the company has received no such complaints from its customers

ditzy SG

You seem to have this obsession with laptop batteries, want a sticky thread all for yourself? Laughing

nightzip SG

Notice Regarding Sony Battery Pack Replacement Program

Sony Corporation announced a voluntary replacement program for certain of its battery packs*1.

As of this time, we are not aware of any instances of battery pack problems involving Fujitsu notebook PCs similar to those that have been announced by Dell and Apple Computer.

Nevertheless, in response to Sony's announcement, we have decided to cooperate with Sony's voluntary battery replacement program. Specifically, we plan to offer voluntary replacement of the Sony-made battery packs in the Fujitsu notebook PC models listed below. Details will be announced separately following consultation with Sony.

Designated notebook PC models subject to the Sony voluntary battery replacement program:

[Sold in Japan]
FMV-BIBLO LOOX P70R, P70S
FMV-BIBLO LOOX T50M, T50R, T50RN, T50S, T50SN
FMV-BIBLO LOOX T70M, T70M/T, T70MN, T70R, T70R/T, T70RN, T70S, T70S/V, T70SN
FMV-P8210

[Sold outside Japan]
LIFEBOOK P1510, P1510D, P7120, P7120D
LIFEBOOK S7020, S7020D, S7025, S7025D
LIFEBOOK C1320, C1320D

nightzip SG

dun need lah...there wont be so many news on laptop and PC problems liao...after this... Laughing

I posted it for the benefit of all forumites mah...hope all dun mind. Crying or Very sad

ndmmxiaomayi SG

Wait wait, Acer also in talks with Sony?!

I don't want to go down to Jurong just for this.........

ditzy SG

No lar, not jurong lar, international business park. Laughing

ndmmxiaomayi SG

Same lah, it's still in Jurong area. Laughing