Ouch. Bad luck for Nokia. This has a reminiscent tone of the Dell laptop battery recall. No word of any exploders this time at least. I should note that this is a voluntary recall.
Over half a billion pounds was wiped off Nokia’s stock market value this morning after it admitted that 46m of its mobile phones are at risk of overheating.
The Finnish phone maker has received around 100 reports of its phones short-circuiting while being charged. They all used a particular battery, the BL-5C, which is used in many Nokia phones sold in the UK.
More than 300m BL-5C batteries, which are also sold separately, have been distributed worldwide. The problems all involve units made by Japan’s Matsushita between December 2005 and November 2006, when it shipped a total of 46m BL-5C batteries to Nokia.
Tags: Nokia, Nokia Recall, Nokia Battery Recall
