“Sony Corp. has added its name to a growing list of computer makers recalling laptop PC batteries made by one of its own subsidiaries,” Martyn Williams reports for IDG News Service.
Williams reports, “The Tokyo-based company said it will offer replacements for around 90,000 battery packs sold with models of its Vaio PCs in Japan and China. The battery packs have the model names VGP-BPS2B and VGP-BPS3A. The former was used with PCs sold in China while the latter was used in Vaio T-series laptops sold in Japan and in models sold overseas, Sony said in a statement.”
Williams reports, “Sony is planning to widen the recall to battery packs sold with PCs in other countries but has yet to finalize those details, said Daichi Yamafuji, a Sony spokesman in Tokyo.”
Full article here.
More about Sony’s woes in “Sony Considers Lowering Profit Forecast,” here.
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Sony-made battery fire in discontinued Apple notebook computer reported in Japan – August 29, 2006
Apple to recall 1.8 million Sony-made iBook G4, PowerBook G4 batteries – August 24, 2006
Apple, Dell, HP, Lenovo, and others working on battery standard – August 23, 2006
Qantas first airline to restrict in-flight Dell laptop use due to fire-prone batteries – August 23, 2006
Dell and Sony knew about battery problems nearly a year ago, waited for catastrophic failures – August 21, 2006
Dell issues largest safety recall in history: 4.1 million laptop batteries due to fire threat – August 14, 2006
Another Dell laptop goes up in flames – July 28, 2006
Dell laptop fires may have been downplayed – July 22, 2006
NY Times: Dell’s exploding laptop and other image problems – July 10, 2006
Dell laptop explodes into flames at Japanese conference – June 21, 2006
Tom Yager expects Vista to “explode”. Does this mean that Microsoft will be recalling Vista, too?
Sony makes profit?
FINALLY! It’s their turn!
Tom had too many homebrew “Yagermeisters.”
I was wondering when Vaios would show up on the incendiary portable list.
It’s nice to see a mfr step up and take responsibility for their shoddy design. You know they would have loved to look the other way and just let homes burn down.
When are they ganna recall the 90000+ botched mp3 players they’ve made over the years.
Perhaps Sony could benefit from a geography lesson, too.
“The battery packs have the model names VGP-BPS2B and VGP-BPS3A. The former was used with PCs sold in China while the latter was used in Vaio T-series laptops sold in Japan and in models sold overseas, Sony said in a statement.”
Unfortunately, the Vaio sitting in front of me now with a battery pack labeled VGP-BPS2B was sold in Daytona Beach, FL, not China.
What a nice surprise.
How many batteries are affected now? Close to a million?
Approx. 8 million – the quote below was from Oct. 2nd and does not include Sony’s own recall.
“Total No. of Sony-made Battery Recalls Since August
Dell: 4.1 million
Apple: 1.8 million
Toshiba: 340 thousand (no fire risk; recharging problems)
Dell: 100 thousand (follow-up announcement)
Toshiba: 830 thousand
Lenovo: 526 thousand
Fujitsu: undisclosed
Total: 7.7 million
Negative concerns surrounding Sony’s battery recalls include:
Damage to Sony brand
Loss of business partners
Increased competition from rival battery-makers: Sanyo (SANYY), Matsushita (MC) and South Korea’s LG Electronics
Threat of further recalls from Hewlett-Packard (HPQ), Gateway (GTW) and from its own Sony-brand notebook PCs
Positive takes on Sony’s battery recalls include:
Losses could be limited since not all batteries recalled will be turned in
Battery-division is a small part of overall Sony Group, reportedly accounting for less than 2% of revenue”
Source: http://japan.seekingalpha.com/article/17773
Sony is condemned because of the Davinci Code Film. They called murderers to Opus Dei and Opus Dei Said “We have the right to sue SONY, but we will not sue because trust in God” and there you have, millions and millions of loses and the film only give them 10 millions…
????Viktor???? are you high?
DaVinci Code is a load of crap, and the movie sucked too!
hi,
i am wondering why such things happen. sony is great.