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 ...

Just when the days of exploding phones seemed to be over, an iPhone 7 appears to have gone up in flames. iPhone 7 Plus owner Brianna Olivas captured the dramatic incident on Feb. 22 in a Twitter video ...

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 ...

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 ...