Confusion Over Exploding Motorola Droid Smartphone

Published on: 1st Jan 1970: 1:33am

Reports that a Motorola Droid 2 smartphone exploded last week during a phone call, causing the user to have to visit hospital may be slightly less clear-cut than it first appears. Last week, an American man, Aron Embry of Texas needed stitches after he claimed that his Motorola Droid 2 smartphone exploded when he was making a ph­one call on it.

Embry spent four hours at the hospital and received stitches in his left ear. Fortunately he has no damage to his eardrum and no hearing loss.

Motorola is currently investigating, but a source at the company told PCMag that there was no evidence of an explosion in the smartphone. "The only things that could explode in a phone would have resulted in a phone that did not work, yet this phone worked. And there was no explosive damage to the device (things inside blown outward, etc)." the source said.

There had been some suggestions that the phone was dropped and the glass screen cut Embry's ear when he tried to use it.

Embry is currently understood to be talking to lawyers about compensation payments.

On the web: PCMag

 

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