Experts believe that it is impossible to blow up smartphones in the same way as pagers in Lebanon.

In theory, hackers could exploit vulnerabilities in smartphone software to cause them to overheat or crash, but mounting large-scale attacks would be difficult.

A series of explosions rocked a Lebanese city on Tuesday, triggered by thousands of pagers believed to have been used by Hezbollah militants. The coordinated blasts killed at least 11 people and injured nearly 4,000. ndtv-com investigates whether smartphones could be used in such incidents.

The use of outdated pagers has raised public concerns due to their weak security, while smartphones, which are widely used around the world, have more modern security systems.

It is hard to imagine hackers turning smartphones into explosive devices, as modern technology provides reliable protection against such attacks. While Hezbollah's use of pagers is due to the difficulties in securing their systems.

Modern smartphones have multi-level security systems and temperature control mechanisms, which minimize the risk of failures. The possibility of mass explosions of smartphones, although theoretically existing, is extremely low in practice.