At risk of overheating it would recall 46 million dell batteries

At risk of overheating it would recall 46 million dell batteries

As the battery charger may short-circuit temperature is too high risk exists. Recently, dell dell 312-0306 battery announced the global recall of 46 million BL-5C mobile phone batteries.

dell said the battery replacement is limited by the Matsushita Company in December 2005 to November 2006 during the production of BL-5C batteries have been used from the 1100 series of low-end to high-end N91 and E60 products multiple models . For reports of overheating, dell said that the world is about 100 onwards, and has not received any serious personal injury or property damage dell F5136 battery were reported.

Marianne Holmlund, said company spokesman, overheating will cause the battery charger from the phone, "pop." She said that, although they do not know what causes a small number of incidents, but the battery does not exist the danger of fire. dell said the company in 2006 sold 347 million mobile phones, cell phone batteries use only one of about 10%.

It is understood that the problem the Chinese market dell Inspiron 710m battery will also be a unified replacement batteries. As for the Chinese market will be the number of defective batteries, dell Customer and Market Operations IT Manager, LIU Yan said there was no relevant statistics.

She introduced, customers will only have the battery on the back below the 26-character battery identification number, through the dell website or customer service hotline to identify, you can determine whether the free replacement battery conditions. dell will use DHL courier, sent a new battery. For areas not covered by DHL, dell will take the form of other courier dell Inspiron 700m battery delivery.

dell , Panasonic will recall program is expected to bear "certain financial responsibilities", the two sides will investigate the battery issue. If all 46 million customers decided to replace the battery, then the cost of the recall would be very high. However, the Matsushita spokesman said the general in such cases, only a small part of the customer will be returned to the battery.