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Japanese Gov't: iPod nano batteries caused fires
A brief report from Reuters this morning said Japan's trade ministry claimed three fires had been caused by defectively hot iPod nano batteries.
Nobody was injured in the fires.
The government said in a statement that Apple had two other reported cases where people were burned by their iPod nanos. The defective nanos, they said, were sold between September 2005 and September 2006.
Japan's quasi-governmental product safety commission will investigate the incidents with Apple's cooperation, the trade ministry said.
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Reader Comments (Page 1 of 1)
flunky Carter said 1:10PM on 8-19-2008
iPod Nanos...
Myek~!
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Al said 1:19PM on 8-19-2008
Boy Apple are getting some bad press lately!
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DGK said 1:21PM on 8-19-2008
I think my nano may have gone the way of the flame had I left it powered any longer, fortunately I noticed something afoot before any fireworks:
1. http://speedyb.co.uk/news/NanoBattery/NanoBattery_6.jpg
2. http://speedyb.co.uk/news/NanoBattery/NanoBattery_3.jpg
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Jon said 8:07AM on 8-21-2008
holt damn, that battery "blew up" like a balloon...
Jash Sayani said 1:36PM on 8-19-2008
Come on. Its batteries. Not Apple Batteries.
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DA360 said 4:49PM on 8-19-2008
Well, Apple, like most manufacturers gets their batteries from other manufacturers, and there was almost a pandemic of batteries bursting into fire on laptops, Dell and Apple's included. So this isn't exactly any one's fault since naturally, these were manufactured before the batteries defects were known.
However, I am sure this will make Apple issue something with these older nanos to prevent this from happening again.
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iPod Downloads said 8:19PM on 8-19-2008
It seems you keep hearing about these fire with the ipods but I have owned iPod for over 2 years several and I have never experience anything like that. I use my ipod and ipod nano for Music, Movie and Game Downloads at http://www.ipodtunesdownloads.com
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vintage ipod said 10:08AM on 8-20-2008
Ipod Celebrates 50 Year Anniversary - Proof!
If you havent sen this - you're missing a treat...Ok we know that back in 1958 the ipod wasn't top on you're grannies shopping list, but you have to admit this is a superb photoshop image.
http://www.skool-days.co.uk/2008/08/ipod-celebrates-50-year-anniversary.html
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Meatleg said 10:31AM on 8-20-2008
this is probably just FUD thrust into the new media of japan by lobbyists for "au" and "docomo", the two main carriers that are NOT carrying the iPhone. SONY made the exploding batteries in the Apple Laptops. there werent any press releases about that here. cant believe i actually saw that on the news here. garbage.
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Sean Brackeen said 11:15PM on 8-23-2008
It looks like this is even in US iPods too, I was in the apple store for my iPod Touch and someone bought one in which had caught fire. it was a white 1st gen iPod, allegedly bought soon after the introduction
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