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.

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 ...

Two Nokia users in the Netherlands and one in Vietnam were recently injured by exploding phones, and Nokia has learned that all three users installed counterfeit batteries manufactured by unauthorized ...

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 ...