Switched has a strange little story about the Motorola Droid 2. A guy named Aron Embry from Cedar Hill, Texas claims his Droid 2 exploded in his ear, leaving him with a wound that required four stitches.
The story’s a little fishy. When cell phones explode, which is already a sort of rare occurrence, it’s usually the battery. As you can see from the image, Embry’s phone apparently exploded at the speaker, not exactly a volatile part of the phone. Also strange is that any part of the phone would blow up when it’s in open air. Again, when phones typically pop it’s at the battery, and in a pocket or bag, some sort of enclosed space where heat gets trapped around the device.
Embry says he didn’t feel any pain and it wasn’t until he realized he was bleeding that he went to meet his wife Kara, who photographed the damage. I don’t know about you, but my own ears are pretty sensitive, and I’d definitely wonder if I heard a popping noise and looked down to see that my phone had shattered next to my ear.
