Is my laptop's batteries going to be recalled?
Which covers almost all the main portable manufacturers except HP and, oddly, Sony, whose battery manufacturing plant in Japan made millions of lithium-ion batteries that have now been recognised as a potential fire hazard - so much so that a number of airlines refused to allow computers containing them on board, even in the hold. So why are HP and Sony not recalling batteries that must have been made at the same time as those which are being recalled, and which one would expect might be at risk from the same manufacturing defect (of tiny metal shards in the battery electrolyte) as others? HP said in a statement that "to date HP has received no reports of overheating causing a battery failure in Sony 2.4 or 2.6Ah [amp hour] cells used in some ... Sony's reputation with millions of laptop batteries owners is in tatters, as customers grapple with the logistics of sending back their potentially dangerous batteries, and the Japanese electronics giant tries the act of metaphorically - and in some cases literally - firefighting.