How a Nokia 310 Stopped a Speeding Bullet Saving Owner’s Life

A photo that was posted on Twitter showing the remains of a Nokia 301 handset hugging a bullet from a high caliber firearm. As seen in the photo, the projectile seems to hit the phone from the rear and the tip sticking out of the front portion of the poor Nokia phone.

When the Nokia 3310 was first released way back in the year 2000, you can quickly say that this phone will definitely be staying for long. Thus, the Nokia 3310 quickly gained a reputation as the Chuck Norris of mobile phones. But it seems the 3310 is not alone to hold this reputation. A much more recent Nokia 301 in this instance, released in 2013 - is invincible as well, which deliberately saved a man's life by stopping a speeding bullet.

A Nokia phone I worked on a few years ago saved the life of a man in Afghanistan last week. The embedded bullet.... pic.twitter.com/O2zBxadkDO

— peter skillman (@peterskillman) October 5, 2016

The image above came from a former Nokia executive Peter Skillman, who is now working for Microsoft as the general manager for user experience department for Windows Desktop. Mr. Skillman said that he had worked with the team that originally developed the 301 gave credit to the handset's heroic act by saving a man from Afghanistan last week.

The story quickly gained ground in the cyber world. But the internet being itself, the story also quickly gained suspicions and the legitimacy of the story have been raised. When asked to provide further information about the photo, Skillman said that the disfigured phone was handed to him by a colleague but failed to provide a source. Skillman instead shared a link to a similar story from 2012 of a Nokia X2 stopping a bullet in Syria.

Skillman's connection with Nokia also suggests that all things may not as what it seems. There have been numerous reports from the past of mobile phones stopping bullets and saving lives. One story including a Nokia Lumia 520 saving a Brazilian cop's life in 2014 during an encounter with armed thieves.