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Not really. These were almost certainly tiny shaped RDX charges. Pretty sure that stuff isn't in your everyday cellphone/smartphone. Israel must've identified and infiltrated the supply chain used by Hezbollah.
~~There are critical facilities that still make high use of pagers in the US.~~
Edit: They added explosives to the pagers.
They probably weren't putting shaped charges into the pagers at the factory
Yeah, you're right. I read that article too quickly. Thought it said they just did something with malware to trigger the battery to explode.
Even if they did do that, afaik batteries can't fail like that, especially little ones in pagers. If anything they'd just burst into flames and people would get a few burns