Nokia to exchange 14 million Chargers

Nokia will displace 14 million cellphone chargers developed by China’s BYD Co Ltd as chargers could fall isolate and impact consumers to a risk of electrical shock. The spokesperson of Nokia, Doug Dawson said that they are undertaking the exchange programme as precautionary and proactive measure. He also said that they are not aware of any incidents or accidents due to the certain shocking models chargers. The world’s largest cellphone manufacturer Nokia said BYD would envelope all costs from replacement. The price of an average cellphone charger price to cellphone maker is around $1.

The coated plastic covers of the damaged chargers could come loose and apart, revealing the charger’s internal components that impacts to posing an electrical shock risk, when certain charger’s internal components are touched on plugging the charger into a live socket. For this the spokeswoman from BYD Jasmine Huang replies that the company will reveal the statement later, regarding the replacement of the chargers. She also stated on testing the chargers internally they have found some problems. Nokia proposed BYD to replace the chargers models AC-3E and AC-3U manufactured in between June 15 and August 9, AC-4U which is manufactured between April 13 and October 25. Nokia also request its customers to stop using the above model chargers and within the exchange programme replace it for free.