Upon reviewing the videos of exploding pagers, I agree that the explosions are too big for just having the battery overheat and explode that way.
More than likely, Israel or some other COIN organization gotten wind of Hezzy ordering pagers for their personnel, managed to intercept the order, and replace all the pagers with ones that are engineered to still be functional while being rigged to explode (with plastic explosives, circuitry, programming, etc.) with Hezzy not noticing something was wrong.
While there is a risk of phones blowing up, what I see here suggests a specifically engineered device that looks and acts like a pager, but has explosive bobby trap parts. So if you are worried about the government blowing up you via your phone, I'd not worry unless you are sure that the government planted C4 in your smartphone.
Upon reviewing the videos of exploding pagers, I agree that the explosions are too big for just having the battery overheat and explode that way.
More than likely, Israel or some other COIN organization gotten wind of Hezzy ordering pagers for their personnel, managed to intercept the order, and replace all the pagers with ones that are engineered to still be functional while being rigged to explode (with plastic explosives, circuitry, programming, etc.) with Hezzy not noticing something was wrong.
While there is a risk of phones blowing up, what I see here suggests a specifically engineered device that looks and acts like a pager, but has explosive bobby trap parts. So if you are worried about the government blowing up you via your phone, I'd not worry unless you are sure that the government planted C4 in your smartphone.