No one's laughing at the ageing Nokia 301 owned by a man in Afghanistan any more, as the heavyweight not particularly smart phone appears to have stopped a bullet in its tracks and saved its owner from serious damage.
The picture comes from a man on Twitter. He seems like a sensible grow up, although he has an affiliation with Nokia and Microsoft and says he helped create the 301 a few years ago, so there's a chance it might not be a genuine thing and could be a stunt designed to boost Nokia sales in war-torn countries. Here's the pic:
Given the sceptical nature of today's internet and world, the poster was questioned about his claims in subsequent messages, where he said it was handed to him by a co-worker and failed to find an actual source for the story, linking instead to something from 2012 about a Nokia X2 also taking a bullet. Hmm.
But perhaps not everything makes the news and it was taken to a local service centre by its fortunate owner in the hope that a new display might fix it up
The Nokia brand is associated with durable and even indestructible phones, and it seems that this is true as a Nokia phone successfully stopped a bullet and saved a person's life in Afghanistan.
The Nokia 301 stopped a bullet from pushing through to its owner's body, BGR reported. A photo of the phone, posted on Twitter by a user named Peter Skillman, shows that it was indeed hit by a bullet from the back. While the bullet rendered the phone unusable, it failed to penetrate through it.
When the Nokia 3310 was released back in the year 2000, it gained a reputation as the Chuck Norris of cell phones. If it were on the Mohs scale of hardness, the 3310 would knock diamond off the top spot. But it seems the more recent Nokia handsets – a Nokia 301 in this instance, first released in 2013 – are just as invincible, with one reportedly saving a man’s life by stopping a bullet.
A picture posted on Twitter showed the remains of the Nokia. You can see the back end of the projectile protruding from the rear of the phone, with the tip sticking out of the smashed screen.
The image comes from Peter Skillman, a former Nokia executive who now works for Microsoft as the general manager for user experience at Windows Desktop. He says he worked on the team that originally developed the 301, and claims the sturdy handset’s heroics saved a man in Afganistan last week.
Being the internet, questions over the legitimacy of the story have been raised. When asked to provide more information, Skillman said he was handed the phone by co-worker and failed to provide a source; instead, he posted a link to a similar 2012 story of a Nokia X2 that stopped a bullet in Syria.
Skillman’s association with Nokia also suggests that all may not be as it seems, but there have been plenty of other reports in the past of mobile phones stopping bullets, including a Nokia Lumia 520 saving a Brazilian police officer’s life in 2014 when he was shot by armed thieves.
A shame the person in this instance wasn’t carrying a Nokia 3310, as the bullet would have likely rebounded, leaving barely a scratch on the handset.
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