An MRT passenger's mobile phone started emitting smoke in the train during evening peak hour commute on Feb. 19, at Dhoby Ghaut station on the North East Line.

According to Today, this happened during 6.30pm.

Passengers were evacuated as a safety precaution.

The affected train was rerouted back to the depot.

The Singapore Police Force’s Public Transport Security Command (TransCom) were activated.

As the situation was contained, a call for assistance to the Singapore Civil Defence Force (SCDF) was cancelled before officers could respond.

Phone model?

Since the news broke, many commenters online have been guessing the model of the phone that emitted smoke.

For some reason, a certain model keeps popping up:

A reason for this is probably because an earlier report by The Straits Times (ST) may have mentioned the brand model, according to the HardwareZone forum.

The reproduced text within a forum thread includes the sentence: "The phone model involved in the incident is understood to be an Oppo".

But the ST article on the site itself did not include this line.

However, one comment on ST's Facebook post is particularly curious.

A certain Aden Koz claimed to have been standing beside the passenger with the smoke-emitting phone and he said that his phone model was Honor, the sub-brand belonging to Huawei.

*thinking emoji*

Oppo Singapore has since reached out to Mothership.sg, verifying that the phone involved in the incident was not an Oppo.

Below is a statement from Oppo Singapore:

Upon verifying the facts and subsequently reviewing a photograph of the smartphone in question, we can confirm that it was not one of our smartphones involved in the incident at Dhoby Ghaut MRT station.

Top image adapted via Google Maps

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