Comments on: Sony batteries involved in another recall

The company's 2.15Ah lithium ion batteries are being blamed for incidents of laptops overheating.

[Composer_1777]

lol good thing i only buy sony and not that cheap crap

[random truth]

but sony made the batteries?

[darkr]

double check the 2006 recall :P
that affected sony laptops

this isn't the only incident where sony's QA has been called into question

look at the massive problems with the psp when it was launched or the 1st -8th generations of ps2s

[darkr]

not to mention sony took a huge hit because of the 2006 recall i forget what the figure it was in the hundreds of millions
at the time sony had in addition the cell proccessor development costs which they declared along with the battery recall

[Oneknight]

Maybe sony did this on purpose to eliminate competition......maybe??

[solitare_pax]

Maybe someone at Sony thought the batteries could be a multi-use device. Think of it - a hand warmer / hotplate / waffle maker / cigarette lighter, all in a portable laptop design.

[myles taylor]

How does this eliminate competition?

[nealjstein]

A company in California ? ZPower ? might have a good solution to this ongoing problem. It?s launching a silver-zinc laptop battery that is non-combustible and will provide significantly more power than lithium batteries. Might be worth keeping an eye on them. www.Zpowerbattery.com

[xZero2007x]

The last time this happened for my Dell battery, Dell gave me hell over getting a new battery. I had a 3-year warranty under them, and I had just bought the laptop. In the end, it took them 9 months to get back to me, and even tried to make me BUY a new battery, claiming that mine was not a part of the recall, despite there being a match between their list and my battery and symptoms of the charge rapidly decreasing.