Pavel Durov, the creator of the Telegram messaging program, lost his Samsung smartphone due to the heat in Dubai, where he lived. businessman about it said on the official English Telegram channel.
Durov posted a photo of a broken smartphone and also wrote that at the time of purchase its cost was 180 dollars (about 16 thousand rubles at the exchange rate at the time of publication of the news). Judging by the picture, the dollar billionaire used the budget model Samsung Galaxy A52.
According to Durov, he has been using this phone for the last two years to better understand the experience of its users because this phone is one of the most popular models among them. Unfortunately, the smartphone stopped working due to overheating.
“Looks like I’ll have to change my phone soon,” he concluded.
More than 2.5 million people are subscribed to Durov’s Telegram channel. The new post was viewed more than 250 thousand times and received tens of thousands of reactions in less than an hour.
Telegram is one of the most popular instant messaging programs in the world. Hundreds of millions of people around the world use it every month.
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