BEIJING,
March 2 (Xinhuanet) -- About 100,000 battery packs used in Lenovo
Inc's notebook computers are being recalled because they could overheat and
cause a fire, media Friday quoted the company as saying.
The recall involves batteries made by Japan's Sanyo
Electric Co. and follows four reports of overheating. In one case, a user
suffered minor eye irritation, the company said.
In the interests of public
safety, the computer giant said it will offer customers
free-of-charge replacements for all recalled battery packs.
Some IT analysts said the recalls shouldn't hurt
the company.
Benjamin Gray, a business computer analyst with
Forrester Research Inc., said Lenovo maintains a solid reputation in the U.S.
and Europe and should fare well despite the recall.
"Yeah, this is certainly a difficult thing to deal
with as a user and a customer," Gray said, "but it's not something that will
cause customers to move away from Lenovo, absolutely not."
กก (Agencies)
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