Motorola Phone Kills Man in China

This is the first time I’ve heard about a cell phone exploding and killing its user. Even at the time of Nokia’s big banana phones, the batteries seem safe enough to store in your suit pocket. That’s exactly where Xiao Jenpeng, a welder. He kept his Motorola in front of his chest and when it caught fire. His injuries did not kill him until after a few days later. The exact Motorola model wasn’t divulged but one reason why the battery must have exploded was the man’s place of work. He was a welder and temperatures in his workplace must have reached a high-enough temperature. Authorities in Beijing doubted whether the phone was a genuine Motorola, so let’s not all go blaming Moto, whose market share is already plummeting, about the incident.