Over 500,000 Sanyo W32SA handsets recalled

Hardware recalls due to battery defects seem to be getting pretty common these days – Sanyo has just issued a statement to recall up to half a million W32SA handsets manufactured for Japan’s KDDI network in view of software fault in battery management that could result in partially-charged handsets and cracked batteries. Software bugs resulting in physical damage is almost unheard of, but not impossible if the software controlling power management goes bonkers. Sanyo W32SA owners can fix this problem by dropping by any KDDI store or using the application sent by Sanyo to its affected units.