Has brought tangible benefits to the Sony recall opponents

Dell and Apple recalled 4.1 million PCGA-BP2NY laptop batteries made Sony embarrassing incident became news, but competitors, Sanyo and Panasonic companies is good news. Tokyo, Standard & Poor's equity analyst John Yang said that the scourge of this battery, even though to make Sony's tarnished image, but in the long term without causing undue negative impact.

Speaking of batteries, he said: "If we look at the overall situation, then it is not really Sony's core business." He added that the increase in recalls of Laptop Battery Sony's quality control people's doubts. For example, the company is scheduled in November this year, worldwide sales of PlayStation 3 game console upgrade and its booming flat-panel TV business is the company's businesses are most concerned about the two pillars.

The major Japanese electronics maker Sanyo companies from Sony gained momentum, unfortunately. Dell announced a recall of laptop batteries, the Sanyo's stock price rose 2.16%, while after the company has been restructuring and lower production costs distress - in recent months, PCGA-BP2NX fell by nearly 40%.

Another competitor Matsushita's shares rose after the incident in the recall of two percentage points. With the other suffered from low-cost Asian rivals hit Japanese electronics manufacturers, like Panasonic is also a comprehensive transformation of its business, cut costs and profit areas of concern (such as semiconductors, flat panel TVs, automotive electronics and home networking products). However, the Matsushita spokesman Akira Kadota said the lithium batteries is also a potential growth area, but he declined to say whether Matsushita supply batteries to Dell.

Fujitsu spokesman Masao Sakamoto said the company does not produce lithium batteries, and it was still checking whether the computer uses PCGA-BP1N Sony batteries being recalled.

Macquarie Research Equities senior analyst David Gibson said, assuming that each battery replacement cost of 50 U.S. dollars, then the recall may allow Sony to pay 25 billion to 35 billion yen (215 million to 300 million U.S. dollars). Gibson told reporters that the damage to the Sony may be limited, because the battery only a small fraction of its vast operations.

Wachovia Bank's Chris Brown said: "This is really a pain to do!" In this bank, IT departments require users to examine their own laptop batteries, if there are affected by the recall batteries, give help desk calls. William & Mary School of IT Group network engineers PB991A Clarke Morledge estimated that his team may take several months to right the impact of the recall to make an accurate assessment.

And create problems since disaster

Dell's recall of a record 4.1 million laptop batteries, will the trigger for such people has been used in numerous electronic devices the power of the security concerns, but experts say the problem seems to be the laptop battery defects in the production process rather than the basic PB994A technology.