Toshiba joins Dell and Apple in Sony battery recall

Dell and Apple Computer have already announced massive recalls of laptop batteries, which were originally manufactured by Sony.

Now, Toshiba has joined this group and has announced their own recall to replace 340,000 faulty batteries manufactured by rival Sony.

The company said in a statement that they would be recalling the batteries installed in eight models of its “dynabook” and “dynabook Satellite” series produced between March and May this year and shipped to Asia, Europe and North America.

This latest recall now adds up the number to around 5 million units of batteries being recalled by these three companies.

Sony has already said that they would be shouldering most of the costs of these recalls related to the problems in batteries made by them.

Fujitsu and Hewlett Packard are two other companies, which use Sony batteries in their laptops but have said that no battery problems have been reported in quality control checks.

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