Motorola: “Droid 2 Explosion a Fake!!”

Okay, Motorola didn’t actually accuse anyone of faking. But after looking into the alleged exploding Droid 2 that Texas resident Aron Embry experienced last week, the company has concluded that the phone was dropped prior to Embry’s bloody ear.

News reports last week indicated that Embry was talking on his phone when he heard a pop and subsequently noticed his ear was bleeding and his phone display was cracked. The reports sounded like an odd, eerie exploding Droid was at fault.

As any company would, Motorola took the incident seriously and investigated the phone in question, after which it concluded:

“[T]he only things that could explode in a phone would have resulted in a phone that did not work, yet this phone worked. And there was no explosive damage to the device (things inside blown outward, etc)…[T]he guy didn’t notice the glass had cracked [...]so when he put it to his ear, he cut himself.”

That according to a company source, not an official announcement.

[Anyone else a little nervous with the thought of "things that could explode in a phone"?]

So ball’s in your court Embry, what say you? Were you just trying to swindle a new phone to replace the one you dropped, or was there some legitimacy to that popping sound?

Either way, I’d think that Motorola will replace the phone just to make the story disappear. And if so, well played, my friend, well played. [via GearLog]