Why Real Madrid’s Roberto Carlos banana kicked the new Nokia smartphone
Football star versus Nokia smartphone
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HMD Global’s latest smartphone, the Nokia XR20, is an exercise in toughness. HMD says it’s capable of surviving extreme temperatures, drops from 1.8 metres in height and up to an hour submerged underwater. It seems it can also survive being powerfully kicked – which is how they ended up roping in Brazil World Cup winner and Real Madrid legend, Roberto Carlos.
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In a test that should garner HMD some publicity, Carlos was tasked with testing the XR20’s durability by banana kicking it, albeit in a similar fashion to his famous banana shot from the 1997 Brazil vs France match. About the experiment Carlos said: