Anker is recalling two Bluetooth speaker products over their potential to burn and catch fire due to a manufacturing defect with their batteries.  

On Thursday, the US Consumer Product Safety Commission warned that both products pose a “fire hazard,” and that owners should immediately power them off. The affected models include the portable speaker, the Anker Soundcore A3102 black color model, and the AnkerWork A3302 also known as the A3302 PowerConf S3, a speakerphone device.  

“The firm has received 33 reports of incidents involving the lithium-ion batteries in the speakers overheating, some of those involving incidents of smoking and small fires, including one minor burn injury in connection with an overheating unit,” the Commission said. 

The China-based Anker offered both products exclusively on Amazon.com from March 2023 to October of that year. A total of 69,000 units were sold in the US with another 9,764 units sold in Canada. However, Anker is indicating that some customers may have bought the Soundcore A3102 speaker through June 6th of 2024. 

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The company is now working to send replacement units to affected customers. The vendor has already posted official recall pages for both models with more details, including instructions on how consumers can find the model number on the affected products.  

“We have discovered that due to a problem with manufacturing conditions, a small number of our soundcore speakers (manufactured in March and April, 2023) may have battery issues that cause a potential fire safety risk,” Anker added. 

But it looks like the problem doesn't affect the red and blue color models of the Anker Soundcore, or the Soundcore 2 and 3 models.

(Anker)

The Commission notes that both Anker and Amazon have already reached out to all known purchasers.