Half a million Sony handsets recalled

Expensive blunder from the Japanese giant...

By John Oates, 5 July 2001 07:15

NEWS Sony's re-entry into the mobile phone handset market took a major body blow yesterday with the news that Japanese telco KDDI is recalling 560,000 handsets because of a "production flaw". It could force Sony to cut prices of handsets to win back consumers, according to this morning's Financial Times. Sony returned to the mobile phone arena less than three months ago in a $500m alliance with Ericsson.

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