Hm.... China ... "new" battery ... why does this sound like this guy bought one of the "local" cheapo batteries? If this is the case, well... this guy found out exactly why you should not buy batteries of dubious quality, and it's really sad that he didn't survive to learn this lesson.

Also, it looks like putting your cellphone on your chest is as dangerous as carrying a grenade! Maybe I should stop carrying my cellphone on my belt-clip...

Eek!

or Semtex batteries ???

That'll make hijackers happy.

Mine's the one with the made in china tag.

I tell you, these phones spy on us all, allow GPS satellites to track us, and - as you can see here - allows THEM to remove us when we become a threat.

How come these articles no longer carry the RotM label?? I miss that.

also, apparently bananas have more than 4 uses.....

i always put my phone in a pocket of my pants

If these things can explode accidentally, then they must also be capable of being made to explode? Paris, 'cos she's hot too.

There was a guy next to me in the train this morning listening to rap crap at full volume. Detonating that piece of crap would have brightened my day immensely

"An employee at a neighboring 7-11 convenience store told local media that she heard a loud bang and saw her colleague lying on the floor in a pool of blood"

It seems the mans neighbours can see through walls...A result of all that microwave radiation no doubt...

N

Oh, wait. do they still have paper thin walls...?

Not at all. Why, exactly the same thing happened to me just last week.

is to proceed to China, track down the source of these counterfeit batteries, identify the individuals involved in manufacturing them, and eliminate them as expediently as possible. As usual, should you or any of your IM team be killed or captured, the Secretary of State will disavow any knowledge of your actions. This message will self-destruct in 5 seconds...

"Cor blimey, have a look at the norks on her will ya?!"

...BOOOOM!...

...<music>Diddleiddleiddleiddle-DAH, dah, dah-dah-DAH, dah, dah-dah-DAH, dah, dah-dah-DAH, dah, dah-dah, Diddle-eeeeeeeeee...Diddle-eeeeeeeeee...Diddle-eeeeeeeeee... etc...</music>

Mine's the one without an iPhone.

Maybe he hadn't paid his bill.

Those Chinese businessmen can be ruthless....

If this fatal event happened in the UK , would you creeps find it funny?

He should have had it in his trouser pocket and he would only have lost his Johnson, or as they are known in China, his Kia.

My guess is that he was using a NoKia.

:-)

...but hey it only happened in China so we can jest.

He may have bought the replacement battery in good faith thinking it was legit, only for it to turn out to be a counterfeit.

Feck me Mr Reg slow day to-day this story has been about for years and was as fake then as it is now, check your sources..next we will have the man who married a gaot for 45 th time rehashed

You haven't thought this through, have you? Car crashes happen every day, of course they're not news! I eat my lunch every day, do you expect that to be in a news article? The point is precisely that phones killing people has (allegedly) happened *once*, therefore it *is* news.

some guy in nigeria got caught being nice to another mans goat, so the tribal elders forced him to marry the goat as punishment ?....the bbc and sky rehash the story every six months, the exploding chinese mobile phone is another one that gets rehashed and reused every so often, it seems even aisa has slow news days..

I am a qualified engineer and I don't believe a Li-ion battery can explode like that - at least not without a lot of heat and smoke being emitted beforehand. Mark my words, this is a wind-up.

2 minutes after reading this story, "Mexican Wine" by Fountains of Wayne came on my iTunes

first line: He was killed by a cellular phone explosion

awesome!

[Sam Radford] A clockwork phone? The guy was killed by a Mainspring Excursion Event?

Was not there a similar case before where it turned out the man was actually killed by some other impact (machinery accident?) and the phone only caught fire because it suffered the same fate.

Sir/Madam - you owe my office a new keyboard, monitor, phone (it was a pretty big mouthfull of coffee) as well as my medical bills from biting my hand to try to keep from laughing so my boss doesn't realize I'm reading El Reg from work.

Im pretty sure it was some sorta foreign device.

China are getting on everyones nerves these days

hoodwinking every nation with there navy

http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/world/asia-pacific/7868863.stm