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 ...

The announcement came more than three months after Samsung scrapped the short-lived competitor of Apple’s iPhones, wiping $US5.3 billion off its operating profit 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 ...

Samsung, the world's largest smartphone manufacturer, announced Friday a mass recall of its Galaxy Note 7 model after reports that some of them caught fire while being charged. The decision to recall ...

SAMSUNG has to win back trust after its exploding phone fiasco while Apple has angered audiophiles over the headphone jack. This is the new smartphone war. Samsung is facing long-term reputational ...

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 ...

Carriers and retailers across the globe are pausing sales of Samsung's Galaxy Note 7 following reports of multiple replacement phones exploding. Samsung has also reportedly halted production of the ...

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 ...

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 ...