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Sony knew about exploding batteries a year ago

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Tuesday, 3 October 2006, 08:09
JAPANESE FIRM Sony knew that its devices had faults for nearly a year but did nothing about it, it's claimed.

Newspaper Yomiuri Shimbun has discovered that Sony executives were informed about a Dell notebook that caught fire in November last year.

It sent its engineers to have a look and discovered that the battery was prone overheating caused by contamination by metal particles during the battery's production process.

However, Sony did not bother to look at batteries it had produced for companies other than Dell, on the grounds that no accidents had been reported.

The paper claims that if Sony had addressed the faults with its batteries earlier, it could have avoided the major recall.

Instead the outfit seems to have stuck its fingers in its ears and gone la la la.

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