Take a quick look around your home or office. How many electronic devices -- laptops, smartphones, tablets, power banks, chargers and such -- can you see? I'm betting that it's quite a few.

Given the deadly explosions of pagers owned by members of Hezbollah this week, many smartphone users are asking if their devices could also be remotely set to explode. While it's technically ...

This may not explode a phone, but it can lead to a shortened ... morning when it overheated from charging. The brand of the ...

Sometimes smartphones explode. Last year alone, an iPhone 4 caught fire while charging overnight, a child in India was killed when a Redmi Note 5 Pro reportedly blew up in her face, and a man's ...

So what can cause a battery to explode? Various problems and situations can lead to this: A short circuit during charging or any other external influence on the charging process of the smartphone (for ...

Johannesburg - Samsung’s Galaxy Note 7 phablet has become synonymous with exploding batteries, but other smartphone brands risk facing the same problem amid a race for faster charging times. This race ...

Moreover, the idea of hacking a smartphone to make it explode is highly impractical. While it's true that lithium-ion batteries in smartphones can overheat and, in rare cases, explode, this is ...

There are many reasons a smartphone may catch fire or explode, and it almost always has to do with the device's battery. Modern mobile devices are powered by lithium-ion batteries, which contain a ...