North Korea 'Launches Own Smartphone'

[Recursion]

Source: Sky News

The communist state's KCNA news agency showed Kim touring a "factory" and inspecting the phone, which it claims is produced using "indigenous technology".

The handset is named Arirang, after a famous North Korean folk song

Specifications of the handset are unknown but the young leader "noted that these hand phones will be very convenient for their users as their camera function has high pixels" The factory has "laid a solid foundation" for mass producing the phones, it said.

However, the actual manufacture of the smartphone is not shown in the pictures, leading some experts to dismiss the claims as another piece of North Korean propaganda.



Read more: http://news.sky.com/story/1127528/north-korea-launches-own-smartphone

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This should be interesting

[Bosonic]

1. Better than a Unicorn!

[Gregorian]

2. Found a picture of it.

[Jackpine Radical]

5. Crap. I was slow.

[Posteritatis]

7. Nah. Yours is the deluxe model: nicer cable. (nt)

[Recursion]

3. "Arirang" is also a web server security scanner

That's a bit ironic

[Jackpine Radical]

4. Wired Mag has a pirated pic of the NK Smartphone…

[Posteritatis]

6. Complete with hardwired cable directly to the State Security Department! (nt)

[Applan]

8. At least they are hand phones

And they have a camera as an added bonus!

[AtheistCrusader]

9. Is it edible?

[sakabatou]

10. Does it look like this?

Or is it crappier?

[cstanleytech]

12. I bet it looks like the Tardis. nt

[sakabatou]

13. Your insult the Tardis.

The Tardis is so much better. Which one allows you to go through time-space? The phone booth or the supposed NK phone?

[cstanleytech]

15. I said "look" though. I doubt they could pull off the ability to travel through time and space

especially since they cant even figure out how to feed their own people yet.

[sakabatou]

18. Oh.

[rug]

11. You can't talk with it but you can listen.

[Thor_MN]

14. Did it also fall harmlessly into the Sea of Japan, well short of it's intended trajectory?

[UTUSN]

16. None of MY business, but shouldn't Kimmie be focusing on FOOD for the MASSES?!1

But watching the KKKKKKKKKKKARDASHIANS is probably too engrossing!1

[RZM]

21. Love that graphic

The first dumpling in space.

[Snake Plissken]

17. Flintstone-Tech

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[ConcernedCanuk]

19. I think many may be underestimating North Korea.

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Just because they are reclusive and poor,

doesn't make them stupid.

CC

[jmowreader]

20. No real reason they couldn't assemble phones from Chinese-made parts

And since such a phone is going to have to be specially made so it can't be used to communicate outside North Korea, they're going to have to do at least a little bit of work on it inside the DPRK.

[SoapBox]

22. Talk about an easy way to

spy on your citizens!

"It's CHEAP! We MADE it! Get one! And remember, You Talk and We Listen!"

[Socal31]

23. In other news, NK's new phone system exploded when millions of people simultaneously ordered a pizza

n/t

[sakabatou]

24. Said "pizza" is called "Soylent Green"