Toshiba continues to 'fire'

After warnings about the phenomenon of laptop heating up abnormally and to minimize the risk of laptop explosion from the cause of battery error. Recently, Toshiba has decided to continue recalling Sony-made batteries that are being used in some of its laptops.

Remember last year, Sony had to recall a total of 9.6 million computer batteries, because these batteries were able to burn when the computer temperature increased too high. The financial loss of the company's battery recall cost Sony $ 418 million. But the most important thing is the reputation of Sony and Toshiba brands are seriously affected.

This time, after Toshiba announced to recall an additional batch of batteries, Sony's stock price on the Japanese stock market immediately fell 0.6%, while Toshiba's stock was even worse. 1.6%.

Toshiba continues to 'fire' Picture 1 At this battery recall, according to the US Consumer Product Safety Commission, there are about 1,400 battery packs manufactured by Sony that are sold with some Toshiba laptops that can burn and cause Dangerous for users. Toshiba has received 3 reports of abnormal warming of 3 laptops in 3 different models and in 3 different countries, but fortunately no unfortunate accident happened.
In this recall phase, Toshiba only recovers batteries from Satellite A100 models, Satellite A105 and Tecra A7 are produced between January and June 2006.

Until now, the number of batteries recalled by companies this year is still much smaller than the number of more than 9 million laptop batteries recalled in 2006.