According to North Korea Tech, North Korea is
in the latter stages of producing a smartphone that will be exclusively from
North Korea.
Reports from Korean Central News Agency
revealed that Korean head Kim Jong-Un visited the company where the smartphone,
AS1201 Arirang is being manufactured. The smartphone is expected to run on the
popular platform, Android.
Kim reportedly toured the factory and spoke
with officials. Korean Central News Agency released pictures of the visit and
the smartphone which was claimed to have a high pixel in its camera.
KCNA claimed that “he highly appreciated the
creative ingenuity and patriotic enthusiasm with which officials and employees
of the factory laid a solid foundation for mass-producing hand phones by
building a new modern hand phone production process.”
However, North Korea Tech has predicted that
the smartphone may not be produced by the factory shown in the picture as the pictures
don’t show a manufacturing environment. It posited that it may have been
produced and it is only been inspected before the sale in North Korea.
One thing remains to be known though, we don’t
know if North Korea will make internet access available to average North
Koreans as it is presently not available.
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