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- Updated: 24th Apr 2022, 18:21 IST
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    How Smartphone have saved owners from bullets

There are many reports of smartphones exploding and endangering users’ lives. A video from war-torn Ukraine has come showing a Ukrainian soldier claiming that his smartphone saved his life. The soldier was talking to his colleague in Ukrainian, filming the video. Smartphone was shown off the smartphone in the 45-second clip, which has gone viral on social media. Let us look how the smartphone saved a life in details in here.

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The 7.62 mm bullet remains in the phone in the video, and the soldier tells his colleague, “Smartphone saved my life. The soldier was in the trenches while gunfire and explosions is there in the video.

It is unknown what brand of smartphone it is, but users speculate that it is a Samsung device. Other Twitter and Reddit users made jokes about Nokia phones’ tenacity, with one Redditor writing, Obviously not a Nokia though, otherwise, the bullet would destroy and he would have been able to continue using the phone.

How Smartphone have saved owners from bullets

Smartphone Saved Soldier's Life

This is not the first time smartphone saved a Soldier’s Life . Owners of Nokia, BlackBerry, Samsung, HTC, and even Apple iPhones have previously reported that their phones saved them from being hit by bullets.

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In 2016, a man in Afghanistan claimed that a bullet lodged in his Nokia 301 saved his life. In 2012, a Nokia X2 owner was saved from being shot. While filming a fight between rebels and the military in war-torn Syria. The bullet became lodged in the handset.

A gardener in Louisiana, USA, was shot by a stray bullet in 2008. When the 68-year-old opened the nylon case of his Motorola Razr phone, a.45-caliber bullet fell out. In a similar 2007 story, a bullet was in a soldier’s iPod. While he was in Iraq, effectively saving his life.

Similar incidents involving bullets remaining lodged in phones, including a Nokia Lumia 520, a BlackBerry Curve, and an HTC Evo 3D, have been reported. A man was shot in a restaurant in Taiwan in 2014, and the bullet lodged in his Samsung Galaxy Mega 6.3, narrowly missing his chest.

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Highlights of the Story

  • A Ukrainian soldier has claimed his smartphone saved his life.
  • A viral video shows a bullet lodged in his unidentified smartphone while the soldier sits in a trench.
  • The video is allegedly from the ongoing Russia-Ukraine war.