“A video has surfaced on social media of a man walking through a busy street in China who gets startled as his phone catches on fire. Reportedly the incident left his arm, hair and eyelashes slightly singed.u00a0. It was a Samsung smartphone bought by the man in 2016 that caught on fire. Apparently, it was the phoneu2019s battery issues that caused the fire.u00a0. In the video, the fire seems to be originating from the manu2019s bag in which the phone was kept. Upon realizing that it had caught on fire, the man threw the bag on the ground while stepping on it to put out the flames.u00a0. Also read: New iPads to podcast subscriptions: top 4 announcements from Apple event 2021. The main reason why smartphones may catch fire is because of the batteries installed in them. These batteries consist of lithium-ion batteries which heat themselves. As the phone charges it drains out the battery but in some situation, it may get even hotter.u00a0. Also read: Apple powers up iPads after pandemic fueled a surgeu00a0. In 2018 a woman from Detroit reported that her Samsung Galaxy S4 and Galaxy S8 caught fire and destroyed her car. The incident is of May 21 when the woman placed the phones in the caru2019s cupholder as she was driving to work. She saw that the phone sparked and then caught fire. She managed to escape the car before the fire destroyed her car.u00a0. #Fire #ViralVideo #Chinau00a0.”