The new frontier of terror… could our PHONES be used against us? As pagers and walkie-talkies are turned into bombs, experts reveal whether your smartphone is safe

LISTEN: 90 Seconds to Midnight is The Mail's new podcast examining how close we are to Doomsday. On Wednesday, radios and walkie-talkies, like the one pictured in the hand of the man standing over the victim here, also exploded A photo taken on September 18, 2024, in Beirut's southern suburbs shows the remains of exploded pagers on display at an undisclosed location In 2011, a tall tale surfaced about Steve Jobs and the team of Apple engineers tasked with creating the first iPod. Unlike an old pager, made up of replaceable parts with plenty of internal spaces, you can't replace your modern phone's battery by simply unclipping the casing and sliding it out - the device comes sealed as one unit. Unlike an old pager, made up of replaceable parts with plenty of internal spaces, you can't replace your modern smartphone's battery by simply unclipping the casing and sliding it out - the device comes sealed as one unit Security guards stand outside a Samsung facility near the city of Chennai, India, September 16, 2024 People work on machines at the Foxconn factory in Guiyang, Guizhou Province, China, that produces tech for Apple and several other IT companies Much of the speculation around the attack on Hezbollah has focused on how the perpetrators managed to tamper with the devices before they arrived in Lebanon. Each device is designed with ruthless precision, stuffed with hardware and packaged as tightly and efficiently as possible The remnants of a destroyed pager or paging device that exploded on September 17, 2024 Though decades of globalisation mean that most of our tech is produced thousands of kilometres away and shipped around the world, the production process is now extremely efficient.