Nokia Recalls 14M Chargers Over Shock Hazard
Nokia has issued a massive charger recall and is offering free replacements to those affected.
Nokia today announced a recall of over 14 million chargers manufactured by a third party partner, China's BYD. The recall is a precautionary measure after a routine quality control test showed that certain chargers could potentially shock the user.
"During a routine quality control process, Nokia identified a potential product quality issue with certain chargers manufactured by one of its third-party suppliers. The plastic covers of the affected chargers could come loose and separate, exposing the charger's internal components and potentially posing an electrical shock hazard if certain internal components are touched while the charger is plugged into a live socket. Nokia is not aware of any incidents or injuries related to these chargers."
The Finland-based company goes on to say that anyone with AC-3E and AC-3U model chargers, manufactured between June 15, 2009 and August 9, 2009; and the AC-4U model, manufactured between April 13, 2009 and October 25, 2009 should visit chargerexchange.nokia.com or their local Nokia website to arrange swapping their old adapter for a new one.
Reuters reports that the number of chargers affected amounts to 14 million and China's BYD is said to be covering the costs of the replacement chargers. Each charger reportedly costs around $1.
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It's Nokia's fault for buying a chargers that costs less than £1.
cost to manufacture 1$ MSRP $19.95 think bout that one for a bit
Nokia. Electrocuting People.
This is quite a shock. At least Nokia has the capacitance to admit it's mistakes.
Wow where's the logic behind that one?
Stop asking for cheap shit then.
This is quite a shock. At least Nokia has the capacitance to admit it's mistakes.
oh man... puns all around. haha I like it.
$1 is not the cost for manufacturing the charger, its the cost for this recall (of course after the bean counter sophisticated calculation)
visit your "local" website?
Shocking news indeed. They noticed the problem only after 14 million chargers have been issued? What routine quality control processes are they doing?
At least they didn't blame the customers. Unlike others!!
I've 2 of those "faulty" chargers.... they are not faulty. you have to be extremely unlucky and extremely stupid and you have to do it on purpose to have an electrical shock.this is just marketing really.
There are plenty of extremely stupid people in the world and you can't count on luck for anything. I find it more believable to say Nokia put a charger through the wringer and found a possible weakness somewhere along the line than to say the company is paying a partner to replace 14m chargers because they want to look like they care about customers.