Apple issues alert about older iPods

Associated Press
Published: August 20, 2008

TOKYO (AP) - This is NOT what people should have in mind when they talk about having some really hot music on their iPods. Apple is advising that some of its iPods sold in recent years have had a problem with overheating. The company says the problem is limited to some iPods sold between September, 2005 and December, 2006. It says the defective units can, on rare occasions, overheat, fail and deform. Apple says the problem has been caused by a battery defect that has been traced to a single supplier. And it says, unless you have one of the troubled lot of batteries, you iPod should be fine. The dispatch from Apple’s Tokyo branch come after a disclosure by the Japanese government that it is investigating a possible battery defect in the first-generation iPod Nano. A trade agency says it has received three reports that iPod Nano models have overheated. For its part, Apple says the problems are extremely rare and that if customers are worried about their Nano players, they should get in touch with AppleCare services.