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Well, wait a minute now. Was it the phone or the battery? The article seems to go back and forth on which one was the root cause.

An engineer friend told me that if a Li-ON battery gets burning it is self-oxidizing. Meaning the fire creates oxygen which feeds the fire.

I wonder if later we will find out the quarry worker bought a cheap Chinese battery and that was the cause of his demise.

About people being killed while they had a cell phone on their person. It's illogical. Most likely they would have been killed even if they didn't have a cell phone. That's because their actions put them in danger. For instance: standing outdoors in a flat area while a storm is active in the area. Or being next to a tree during a storm. The cell phone was not the problem, their stupid actions were. It would make just as much sense to say they were struck by lightning because they were wearing glasses or shoes or some such. Since a high percentage of people in the world now carry cell phones the odds are a small percentage of them will be hit by lightning. It's not the phone's fault. If I remember the Snopes website has something to say on this issue.

Terry Thomas
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I guess if my phone blows up I'll be getting a hip replacement!]]>Nov 28th 2007 6:28PMhttp://www.engadgetmobile.com/2007/11/28/korean-man-killed-by-exploding-cellphone/http://www.engadgetmobile.com/2007/11/28/korean-man-killed-by-exploding-cellphone/Nov 28th 2007 7:39PMhttp://www.engadgetmobile.com/2007/11/28/korean-man-killed-by-exploding-cellphone/http://www.engadgetmobile.com/2007/11/28/korean-man-killed-by-exploding-cellphone/Nov 28th 2007 10:41PMhttp://www.engadgetmobile.com/2007/11/28/korean-man-killed-by-exploding-cellphone/http://www.engadgetmobile.com/2007/11/28/korean-man-killed-by-exploding-cellphone/Nov 28th 2007 11:06PM