 |
| Apple IPod Nano Recalls The First Generation Of Transmitter Battery |
Apple iPod nano has always been a hot consumer item, but it can become a bit too hot. Dangerous even.
Thus, Cupertino, California-based computer and mobile giant is asking people who bought the first generation device, around 2005, to transform it into a replacement.
Vulnerability
"Apple has determined that in very rare cases, the iPod nano (1st generation) can overheat and pose a safety hazard," the company said the official support forum for nanotechnology. "IPod nano interested sold between September 2005 to December 2006."
Apple blamed the "sole supplier of the battery, which produced a defect in production of batteries," the issue, but stressed: "While the possibility of a case is rare, the probability increases the age of the battery."
Given the large number of iPods sold since the decade, since the closure was introduced revolutionary MP3 - over $ 150 million since 2002 - the number of incidents of overheating is very small, but perhaps that Apple does not want to admit that .
A television station in Seattle, Kiro, in 2008 filed a request for access to federal information to the Consumer Product Safety Commission seeking an account of all complaints related to overheating of the iPod. Apple's lawyers blocked the request, said KIRO.
When I finally received the documents, said the station had 15 accidents in sparks, smoke-damaged furniture, and between 2005 and 2008.
Mother of Cincinnati sued Apple $ 225.000 in 2009, when he said, overheated iPod touch burned through his pants and burned the boy's leg. Case status is unclear.
Remember not to affect any other iPod models, and the company seems to be concerned about the growing threat to older devices.
"We have identified this problem some time ago, nothing more than loop as the batteries age - the age increases the rate of failure," said Avi Greengart, consumer devices analyst at Current Analysis.
Messages in the user forum invites users nano first generation to stop using and follow the steps online to order a free replacement. Users must enter a serial number to ensure that it is entitled to compensation, which will take about six weeks after the day the old you back.
Feeling the Heat
The iPod is far from the consumer unit that faced with overheating problems that manufacturers try to keep pace with the demand for power devices more powerful.
Apple IPod Nano Recalls The First Generation Of Transmitter Battery
Only last month, the Targus accessory computer maker recalled the eight models of its power supplies for notebooks because of the risk of overheating, and Sony Corp. said 1600000 40-inch LCD flat screen BRAVIA been sold since 2007, with About a dozen of them had overheated, and some had partially melted.
In May, Hewlett-Packard and Compaq recalled some lithium ion laptop, Sony and Lenovo recalled batteries, Apple, Toshiba and Dell Computers in 2006.
