It's very rare, but smartphones can catch fire. They aren't known to explode powerfully enough to kill someone, though. Photo: Langley Township Fire Department A Malaysian man perished in a fire in ...

It’s simple folks: Don’t sit on your phone. Or do, and end up like an Ohio man who claims his three-week-old iPhone XS Max exploded and set his rear ablaze. The man, who only wishes to be known as J.

There are probably those who wish the cell phones clamped to ears of oblivious users would just explode. In Brazil that's become a scary headline, with several cell phones actually blowing up. One ...

Though the Consumer Product Safety Commission (CPSC) and Underwriter Laboratories (UL) both assured us last summer that phones are quite safe, some people still can’t catch a break. We’ve learned of ...

Airlines aren’t messing around with the threat of exploding phones. Smoking, burning, and exploding Samsung Galaxy Note 7 phablets have added urgency to concerns about mobile devices with lithium-ion ...

Samsung’s Galaxy Note 7 smartphones are exploding, and the images being published across the internet are terrifying. In response to such danger, Samsung Electronics has decided to recall its flagship ...

Samsung’s explosive reputation could be flaring up again, based on a new report that the company’s smartphone caused one woman’s car to catch fire and explode. The Detroit woman says she was driving ...

There's precedents for boils and locusts. But exploding cell phones? We just came across our second exploding cell phone story in as many days, which is enough to make us waive the ...

Three recent incidents of exploding Nokia Corp. phones are due to the use of counterfeit batteries, a Nokia spokeswoman in the U.S. said Thursday. Two Nokia users in the Netherlands and one in Vietnam ...

Original cell phone batteries are available for between $24.95 and $74.95 through Nokia’s U.S. e-commerce site, but many companies or individuals sell illegally manufactured batteries that are much ...

Carriers and retailers across the globe are pausing sales of Samsung's Galaxy Note 7 following reports of multiple replacement phones exploding. Samsung has also reportedly halted production of the ...