Earlier this month, we told you the story of a man in north Texas whose exploding Droid 2 sent him to the hospital, resulting in a blood splattered handset and a face full of stitches.
The man, Aron Embry, told the press, “Once I got to the mirror and saw it, it was only then I kind of looked at my phone and realized that the screen had appeared to burst outward.” He showed off the phone, shattered and covered in blood, a pretty convincing sight as it appeared on the local news.
Things, however, may not be quite what they seem. We got word this morning from a Motorola employee involved with Droid development that the phone may not have exploded at all. The Droid 2 in question “was a phone that got dropped,” the employee told PCMag. “[T]he guy didn’t notice the glass had cracked […]so when he put it to his ear, he cut himself.”
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