Smartphones catching fire is not a rare case now. In the past, there were several blast reports of the OnePlus Nord 2 device. Now, the Poco M3 smartphone is in the news for the explosion. A user who goes by the name of Mahesh tweeted that his brother's Poco M3 caught fire and exploded. Currently, no reason has been specified by the user. Poco M3 Sales Surpasses 5 Lakh Units in India.

Poco M3
Poco M3 (Photo Credits: Mahesh Twitter)

The image shared by Mahesh via his Twitter account shows the rear bottom portion of the phone, which is completely damaged, except the camera system. Also, it is unclear whether anybody was hurt during the incident or not. The tweet has now been deleted by the user.

In response, the company said, “At POCO India, customer safety is of utmost importance and we take such matters extremely seriously. At this stage, our team contacted the concerned customer as soon as the issue was notified and is awaiting his visit to the nearest service center. We are committed to examine the issue in detail, and extend all our support to the customer and resolve this on priority. All our devices go through various levels of stringent quality tests to ensure that the quality of the device is not compromised at any level.”

A similar incident took place in September 2021 with Poco X3 Pro, and the company had claimed that it was customer-induced damage. Smartphones are claimed to go through various levels of stringent quality tests by the company. Despite that, reports of smartphone blasts are coming up frequently, which is why the quality of smartphones has become questionable nowadays.

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