News - Worldwide recall of 2005-2006 first-gen Apple iPod nano

[HEXUS]

Bad news: Batteries may catch fire.
Good news: Apple is offering to replace six year-old product.

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[aidanjt]

I thought Apple products catching on fire was a patented feature.

[shaithis]

Did they get the patent from Sony?

[crossy]

I used that click through link and wasn't impressed. First of, I thought they were replacing the Nano's with the new model - woohoo I thought - early Christmas present from Apple. Then, on reading more closely, it looks like they're just throwing your Nano into a big pile and effectively sending you a reconditioned one.

Now I'm maybe being prissy about it, but I look after my gear, so I'm not exactly cheering at the idea of perhaps sending in my "mint" Nano and getting someone's battered and scratched item in return. What's wrong with Apple just replacing the battery on my unit and then sending it back to me? Heck, it's an old model, so if it takes 2-3 weeks to do the swap then I'm fine with that.

Complaining over - it is good of Apple to do this. Personally speaking I would have been less honourable and just done something like - "send us in your defective unit and we'll post you a voucher for £30 off a new one".

Edit: just noticed that Apple say "You will receive a replacement unit approximately 6 weeks after we receive your current iPod nano (1st gen).". Strikes me as pretty darn shoddy that it's going to take them a month and half to change the battery in someone else's iPod and send it out to replace yours. For that timescale, I would have expected them to be able to replace the battery in the owners unit and return it to them.

[redddraggon]

I used that click through link and wasn't impressed. First of, I thought they were replacing the Nano's with the new model - woohoo I thought - early Christmas present from Apple. Then, on reading more closely, it looks like they're just throwing your Nano into a big pile and effectively sending you a reconditioned one.

Now I'm maybe being prissy about it, but I look after my gear, so I'm not exactly cheering at the idea of perhaps sending in my "mint" Nano and getting someone's battered and scratched item in return. What's wrong with Apple just replacing the battery on my unit and then sending it back to me? Heck, it's an old model, so if it takes 2-3 weeks to do the swap then I'm fine with that.

Complaining over - it is good of Apple to do this. Personally speaking I would have been less honourable and just done something like - "send us in your defective unit and we'll post you a voucher for £30 off a new one".

I've had few "reconditioned" iPhones from Apple and apart from the Lack of Packaging I was not able to tell it wasn't new.

[crossy]

I've had few "reconditioned" iPhones from Apple and apart from the Lack of Packaging I was not able to tell it wasn't new.

I bought two Apple reconditioned iPods for my kids and they arrived in proper packaging, but the units themselves were obviously "pre-owned". That said, those were destined to be "upgraded" by me, so the odd scratch and burr were acceptable.

Wonder if HMV are still doing that trade-in deal for a new Nano - could do with something cheap n' nasty for the gym.

[TheAnimus]

I would have thought that 90%+ of these where broken already.....

[Hicks12]

same, im suprised any of them work! Maybe thats why Apple is sitting on all their cash... they know all of their products have potential disaster features and if discovered would be required to pay a boat load in fines... it seems apple realised that if they dont recall and someone finds out they knew these batteries were faulty all this time then it would be alot of money.

Werent there already reports ages ago about peoples devices blowing up in their hands and stuff?. I will say this though, good stuff on apple for replacing them regardless if they knew or not.

edit: thinking more, maybe they just knew that they would all be broken/binned at this point so not many people will be able to claim a replacement... a cheap scheme for looking like doing the "right" thing .

[crossy]

edit: thinking more, maybe they just knew that they would all be broken/binned at this point so not many people will be able to claim a replacement... a cheap scheme for looking like doing the "right" thing .

Cynic!
I think I will put mine into the replacement program. Mainly since I really loathe the 6th Gen equivalent - imho replacing the traditional wheel control with touchscreen was a continental-sized retrograde step - so buying a new one is out of the question (although Sandisk are supposed to have some good "gym" models).

[Hicks12]

yeah i hate touchscreen, its great for a phone and devices like tablets but as soon as its on a portable music player i discard it, its stupid... surely you want to be able to navigate while the device is in your pocket... loved my sansa fuze as the wheel was SUPERB, i didnt like the touch style wheel on the ipod but it was a genius design and when the fuze came with a mechanical equivilant it was really good for me , and i could use it in my pocket.

Hope you get your replacement .

[crossy]

Registered mine for this scheme this morning, and was told that Apple will send a box - hope it's pre-paid. So far so good...