Recall: Users of Vaio Fit 11A Laptop Urged To Stop Using Device Due To Overheating Battery
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Sony has issued a recall of its Vaio Fit 11A laptop in response to three reports of the overheating of its Panasonic battery, which caused partial burns on the PC.
Three separate incidents – two in March (19 and 30) and one in April (8) – have led Sony to make the decision to stop selling its hybrid laptop earlier in April.
It’s the latest model for the Vaio PC business, which Sony said it would sell to Japan Industrial Partners, Inc. in February. Sony will no longer be dealing with the planning, designing or the development of PC products along with the manufacturing and selling after the spring 2014 lineup is launched around the world.
The company’s TV unit was also divided into another subsidiary, which led to 5,000 layoffs.
Sony is looking to learn through serial numbers, which Fit 11A laptops are affected. These devices can change from a tablet to a laptop. Since being released to the public on Feb. 25, more than 25,900 units have been sold around the world – 500 of those have been in the United States.
Sony will give more information about the issue through its homepage in a couple of weeks. However, neither Sony nor Panasonic has responded to the incidents.
A spokeswoman for Panasonic did say the company does provide Sony batteries. However, other computer makers have their batteries and no complaints have been registered to them from those companies.
This is not the first time Sony has issued a recall on batteries. In fall 2006, the company recalled $360 million worth of its battery packs, which affected users of Dell, Fujitsu, Hewlett-Packard, Lenovo and Toshiba.
Laptop manufacturers said the reason for the recall was the possibility for fires. In a few instances, the batteries failed and triggered conspicuous fires at meetings and on a plane at the Los Angeles International Airport.
Fast forward another two years, and the recall persisted for 100,000 Sony computer battery packs.
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