San Diego firm recalls cell phone batteries.

Byline: Jennifer Davies

Oct. 29--Kyocera Wireless, a San Diego maker of cell phones, said yesterday it was recalling about 1 million phone batteries because they can overheat and possibly burn a user.

The recall affects batteries used in Kyocera's Slider phones; its K400 models, which are also known as Phantom, Blade or Rave; and the 3200 series. The phones were sold through Alltel, Virgin Mobile, Cricket Communications, MetroPCS, US Cellular and Verizon Wireless stores and other third-party outlets fron December 2003 to September 2004.

The Consumer Product Safety Commission said yesterday there have been 14 reports of battery failures, resulting in …