Nokia 215 handset dubbed ‘perfect second phone.
The Single SIM has a stand-by time of up to 29 days,
while the dual SIM version offers up to 21 days.
It may not be the smartest phone on the market, but
Nokia’s latest handset has one huge advantage – a
battery that can last for a month between charges.
Called the Nokia 215, the handset is set to go on sale for just $29, and Microsoft says it is ‘our most affordable Internet-ready entry-level phone yet, perfectly suited for first-time mobile phone buyers or as a secondary phone for just about anyone.’
PHONE SPECS
2.4inch colour screen
The Single SIM has a stand-by time of up to 29 days,
while the dual SIM version offers up to 21 days.
Preinstalled Facebook and Messenger provides up to 20 hours of talk time.
Opera Mini Browser and Bing Search Twitter also
available to download.
Bluetooth,MP3 player and Torchlight & FM radio.
VGA camera, but cannot load new apps – but comes
preloaded with Facebook, Twitter, web browser and
Microsoft’s Bing search engine It will be available in green, black and white versions,and will initially go on sale in the Middle East, Africa,Asia, and Europe in the first quarter of 2015.
In a feat that calls to mind the memory-tweaking technology in the film "Eternal Sunshine of the Spotless Mind," a team of researchers restored "lost memories" in the brains of mice. The mice in the study were given a drug that prevented them from consolidating a fearful memory. But when neurons involved in encoding the memory were stimulated with pulses of light, the animals were able to retrieve the forgotten recollection. In some forms of amnesia, past memories may not be erased, but may just be inaccessible for recall, said Susumu Tonegawa, director of the RIKEN Brain Science Institute in Japan and co-author of the study, said in a statement. If the findings are confirmed in humans, the knowledge could benefit people who suffer from retrograde amnesia, an inability to recall memories that were made before the amnesia, which is common in traumatic brain injury, Alzheimer's disease and other brain disorders. Scientists have long debated whether retrograde ...
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