Nokia, a household name in India has put everyone in high alert. The announcement to recall the BL-5C battery was like dooms day for many Nokia users. For all those dreading the recall, let me tell you’ll that this recall applies only to the BL-5C batteries produced by Matsushita Battery Industrial Co. and were […]
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Samsung issues a worldwide recall of Galaxy Note7
In a bid to safeguard its users, Samsung today announced a massive recall of its Galaxy Note7 device. Samsung has put the brakes on the sales of its device in many countries after reports of its phone catching fire due to faulty battery cell. Samsung says there have been 35 cases reported about the battery […]
Nvidia recalls Shield tablet over fire hazard
Nvidia just now announced a recall of its Shield tablet in the United States and Canada. The company says some 88,000 units (including 5,000 in Canada) pose a fire hazard due to overheating of the battery. Nvidia is replacing the tablet for free and if you have the tablet bearing model numbers P1761, P1761W and […]
HP recalls 15,000 laptop batteries in China
Looks like HP has got more problems than they had anticipated. After recalling about 70,000 batteries in US, they have issued a recall of 15,000 laptop batteries sold in China from August 2007 to January 2008. Though any incidents have not been reported, the batteries are said to overheat and trigger into an external […]
HP recalls 70,000 notebook batteries
Uh oh, the battery hazard monster is back to haunt notebook users. HP has now announced to take back 70,000 notebook batteries that can potentially pose a fire or burn hazard. The lithium-ion batteries came with HP and Compaq laptops or were sold separately from August 2007 till March 2008. The problem seems to […]
100,000 Sony made laptop batteries recalled
It seems Sony has been cursed with the never ending battery woes. A new voluntary recall of around 100,000 Sony manufactured batteries has been issued by the U.S. Consumer Product Safety Commission after a few reported incidents, some including burns to the users. Out of the total number, about 35,000 batteries were sold with […]
Sony recalls eight different models of digicams
Sony will remember this year for all the wrong reasons other than the launch of PS3 (but is still short on demand). After the battery saga where many laptop manufacturers recalled Sony make batteries resulting the consumer giant to report huge losses this quarter, Sony states that its Cyber-shot digicams act weird in warm […]
Gateway recalls 35000 batteries
Gateway, another laptop manufacturing company joins the bandwagon of recalling Sony make batteries. They have recalled 35000 batteries voluntarily stating that it can overheat in rare circumstances. The recalled batteries were shipped in September 2005 of models: Gateway CX200, CX210, E100M, M250, M255, M280, M285, M465, M685, MP8708, NX260, NX510, NX560, NX860, NX100, MX1025, […]
Sony recalls own batteries
Sony Japan has announced that they will be recalling their own batteries from its VAIO T series. 90000 packs will be recalled from Japan (model no: VGP-BPS3A) and China (model no: VGP-BPS2B) making the total recall figure to reach 8 million. The figure is expected to rise more as only China and Japan were […]
Hitachi joins the rat race, recalls Sony batteries
Whose next? Its Hitachi this time recalling Sony made laptop batteries. This the second recall in this week though the amount of batteries is nominal, just 16,000 compared to Fujitsu’s 287,000 battery packs. There haven’t been any incidents occured on their laptops but to keep the consumers happy and to avoid probable fire risk, they […]