The Legend is back !!!!

If i say you guess the phone, and give you three hints

1) Long battery life
2) Snake
3) Grande Valse

It will not take you long to guess the phone. Yes, i am talking about Nokia 3310. This phone took the world by storm 17 years ago. Nokia sold over 125 million handsets. HMD Global has been making headlines for there attempts in bringing back the glory of Nokia. There has been rumors for sometime about the re launch of Nokia phones, today HMD Global finally announced the relaunch of Nokia phones, and what could have been a better choice to start with the legend "Nokia 3310" itself.

While breaking the news about relaunch of Nokia 3310, Arto Nummela, CEO of HMD Global only said this

 Its battery lasts a month, it has Snake, and it has the Nokia ringtone

4 Color variants of Nokia 3310, Photo :Nokia.com

Mobile World Congress in Barcelona, Spain, February 26, 2017
Photo:Reuters

The Nokia 3310 is going to have following features

-It is going to be thin and light and of course hard to break.
-Its battery life is going to be 22-hour talk-time and 30 days on stand-by, 51 hours of MP3 playback time.
-It will be available in four colors. Yellow, Warm Red, Dark Blue and Grey.
-The price will be 49 euros.
-LED flash 2 megapixel camera
-2.4 inch,240x320 screen
-It comes with a basic web browser.
-FM Radio and mp3 music player
-16 MB Storage plus MicroSD card slot with support up to 32 GB.

The phone is still purpose built, its not smart phone and as its main purpose remains the same, calls and text messages. There is still a big market for feature phones, i am not sure if they are again gonna sell million units, but i do believe its going to give a serious competition.

The spot fixing

I am disappointed, angry and to say it very best, "in a state of disbelief" . Pakistan cricket team has been performing quite poorly recently, but that's normal. That's not something shocking or something which needs to be worried about. What is shocking is allegations on Sharjeel Khan and Khalid Lateef.

Picture taken from PTV Sports

I could hear the echoes of spot fixing scandal from Lords 2010. I still can not believe it that these players are involved in spot fixing. I am still hoping, in fact praying that these allegations are just allegations. But it seems like they have really done it. Once again they have brought shame to Pakistan, once again they have reminded the world about label which keeps haunting Pakistan cricket, the label of "match fixers".

One thing i can not comprehend is, why they do this ? Take that out of the equation that they were unaware. To me it seems the only motive was quick money. I just did a quick google search and i got to know that Sharjeel Khan was on central contract earning 20000 PKRs . Apart from that he was in Diamond class players category in PSL and was suppose to recieved US$70,000 for playing PSL. Add to it the match fees which is around 125000PKRs for T20I , 250000PKRs for ODI and 400000PKRs for Test match. I have not written here the performance related bonuses and the earnings from sponsorship.  Now do your math and tell me did he really needed to do that spot fixing ? I still hope that he didnt...


Still can not find the answer, why they did it...

I was always against giving a second chance to the sport fixers from Lords episode. Pakistan cricket surely could do without those players. Mohammad Amir is an example of that, he is not anymore the special talent he was 7 years ago. He has performed either on average or below average since his re inclusion. He should have been banned for life along with others. If they were banned for life, it would served as deterrent against any future spot fixing.

The players are ambassadors of a country, they are always under the microscope. They have to be responsible because they carry the responsibility of representing a whole nation. Unfortunately time and again we had players for whom national pride was less valuable than few dollars.

I still hope that these players will be proven not guilty. I still hope that allegations will turn out to be false. But if God forbid, they turn out to be true, than these players must be banned for life. They should be put in jail for corrupting against the name of country. They should not be treated with any sympathy.