Toshiba Recalls More Sony Batteries

By the Betanews Staff | Published July 19, 2007, 10:08 AM

Toshiba is recalling 5,100 laptop batteries sold around the world after three instances of the batteries catching fire, two in Japan and one in Australia. Affected batteries were manufactured by Sony in December 2005 for Toshiba's Dynabook, Dynabook Satellite, Satellite and Tecra lines.

The computer maker said the batteries in question were not part of last year's massive recall of Sony batteries, which affected over 10 million units shipped by Dell, Lenovo, Apple and Sony itself. The problems are caused by metal particles falling into a battery during production, causing it to short circuit. Toshiba previously recalled 340,000 batteries, and the latest recall follows one from Gateway last month.

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Sony is the source of much lulz.

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So where the hell do I go to check if my Toshiba laptop is going to blow up? God i'm so sick and tired of Sony's awful quality control. It all started with the Playstation for me....

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Without taking it apart - how do you know whether your Toshiba Satellite has a Sony battery or not anyway?

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Usually you have to the laptop manufactures web site and find a posting of battery serial number ranges or version numbers to find out. Dell did something like that.

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Toshiba has a tool on their website that will tesst your battery and let you know, of course it identifies my wife's battery as being fine, her laptop is not one of the models listed, however her battery pack is the one being recalled, and sometimes her laptop gets so hot that it locks up. go figure.

http://www.csd.toshiba.c...mm.0&ignore_sn=true

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Yet even more exploding Sony batteries... it simply doesn't stop.
You must be really suicidal to still use any Sony batteries anymore.

Just good that the PS3 doesn't have batteries, or we'd have lots of eploding PS3s as well.

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I think I read it somewhere that Sony DO NOT use their own battery.

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The bad thing you have no way of telling who makes the battery. The company name is usually not on it.

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Once they put their name on it, it is their responsibility.

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CMOS BATTERY haha kablewie

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Someone really needs to invent something better than the battery.

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That's not the point.
Someone (i.e. Sony) needs to actually give a damn for quality and start doing quality controls for their batteries.

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But we are Sony and everything we make is perfect, no need to test. :0

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Didn't say it was the point.
I said it's about time someone invented something better.

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