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 ...

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 ...

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 August ...

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 ...

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 ...