Forget About Cellphone Radiation

from the i've-got-a-small-explosive-on-my-belt dept

And start worrying about your cellphone exploding. A woman in Taiwan was the victim of the first ever documented incident of a faulty cellphone exploding. The woman is OK but suffered some burns on her arms and feet. The make of the cellphone has not been released. I doubt it will ever be released, but I would love to know.

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    Actually, the Isralies invented it first...

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    Anonymous Coward, Jun 18th, 2002 @ 12:42am

    ...and have used the exploding cellphone trick
    to knock off more than a handfull of terrorists.

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    Re: Actually, the Isralies invented it first...

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    prashant, Jun 18th, 2002 @ 6:33am

    The article points out that cell phone bomb have been around for a while. This is the first time a cell phone has exploded unintentionally.

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