[diggan]

Assuming a lithium battery and control over the firmware+power draw, couldn't you theoretically make the battery output more charge than safe, leading to at least overheating and maybe more?

I also find it unlikely this was just a remote attack rather than supply chain, but with little to no details we can only assume for now.

[mminer237]

Yes, but compare a phone's much larger lithium battery exploding: https://youtu.be/8nz5ijXcckI?si=jpZOWIs3BIQTvVt2&t=31

With a Hezbollah pager exploding: https://x.com/DrEliDavid/status/1836037485492629605

[tamimio]

Thanks for the videos, obviously something extra was added.

[viraptor]

Not really. This is about the worst your can do with a lithium battery in practice https://youtu.be/oieH2wwDGzo and that's a proper short in something way bigger than a pager. They don't explode like these were reported to.