Toshiba recalls more Sony batteries

Yes, you've seen this headline before. For the third month in a row, Toshiba customers are being urged to exchange potentially dangerous notebook batteries for the nonexploding kind.

This time around, the Consumer Product Safety Commission says 1,400 of the lithium-ion batteries containing Sony-made cells sold with Toshiba laptops pose a fire hazard. There have been three reports of models with those batteries overheating in other countries, but none of the incidents caused injury, according to the CPSC.

Users of Toshiba's Satellite A100, Satellite A105 and Tecra A7, it's your turn. If your notebook was made between January through June 2006, you are eligible for a free replacement battery from the company by going to Toshiba's battery replacement Web site. In the meantime, the notebooks can still be used with the power cord and no battery.

Toshiba recalled 5,100 Sony batteries in July, and in June urged customers to send in for a new battery after reports of one catching fire and burning a desk in Great Britain.

Still, the latest number of defective batteries seems minor in comparison to last fall's massive recall, which affected more than 9 million notebooks from most major PC makers.

[gsmiller88]

Why are companies still using Sony????!!!

If the next notebook I buy uses a Sony battery I am quite tempted
to just buy a 'knock off' battery as a replacement....It doesn't look
they could be any worse!

[tauvix]

Because there wasn't a problem then...

Remember, most of these notebooks were designed, supplier contracts signed, and manufacturing started long before there was ever a problem with the Sony batteries.

[Nese40]

I purchased a Toshiba Satallite laptop about 15 days ago and I had to return it this week. Last night I was on the internet in the middle of something and it decided to turn it self off. It said something about my battery was low, so I charged it for about 12 to 15 hours and it still was not working. Decided to return it to Wal Mart and the electronic guy told me that the power cord or the battery had a shortage and there was nothing that could be done but to send it back to the manufacturer and give a refund. I enjoyed the Toshiba for the time that I had it, but after reading the recalls on it for the Sony battery that might cause a fire, I am glad that I returned it. I hope that I can find another deal like that one for $348.00.