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 ...

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 ...

An exploding phone seems like a freak accident, but the same chemical properties that make batteries work also make them likely to catch fire. Samsung is learning this the hard way, as it becomes 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 today. Two Nokia users in the Netherlands and one in Vietnam ...

WASHINGTON -- Curtis Sathre said it was like a bomb going off. His 13-year-old son Michael stood stunned, his ears ringing, hand gushing blood and body covered in black ash. In a split second last ...

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 ...