Part Arirang, part history of Pyongyang? Don't be ridiculous
To be honest, we are counting here with our fingers one by one, such as "Pyongyang Touch", then "Arirang 171", then "Jindallae 3" and so on, as if we are studying the trunk and branch veins of some very remarkable local technological tree.
Quite funny.
When you look at the rounded corners, it looks like an iPhone 3GS, with a hint of Samsung. I actually understand it very well in my heart. How can there be so many isolated innovations in this world? They are just explanations of globalization with the "North Korea" mark!
Who is working for "Matoushan"?
If it weren't for the extremely talented people at Kim Il Sung Comprehensive University, it would most likely be a quiet and inconspicuous stall in Huaqiang North Ring Road, Shenzhen, or a merchant like Doug who was planning to integrate operations that you have never heard of.
The folding screen held by Kim Yo-jung looks particularly like the Honor Magic. As soon as it changed hands, it became the leader’s “mysterious new phone” in official photos. The upper echelons are using the latest models that have flowed in through the cracks in sanctions, while the common people below are holding "domestic" smartphones that have been refurbished 800 times. This picture is more realistic than any spy movie.
Those few hundred dollars of "dignity"
If you look for them, you will know, such as "Arirang", "Pyongyang" and "Blue Sky". If you break them down, it is very likely that MediaTek's chip lies among them, the soul of Android.
It’s not that they don’t want to use their own. I can't afford it.
After the United Nations imposed sanctions, formal channels are no longer feasible, and we can only rely on smuggling and OEM. In China, goods that can only be called "old man's machines" are equipped with goods. When they arrive at the counter in Pyongyang, the marked price can increase several times, and the price is equivalent to several years' salary of ordinary people.
This is not an act of consumption, it is almost a ritual. The moment you take out your mobile phone, what is revealed is not just the screen, but the identity displayed by struggling to emerge in the gray economic field...
I'm most afraid of the sudden silence in the air
But the interesting thing is always the software.
Do you think that with Android you can connect to the Internet overseas? This idea is simply too childish and naive. As for North Korea’s device called a smartphone, its most intelligent feature may be the “self-censorship” function it has.
Send a text message and type "Oppa", and the system will gently and in a special way change it to "同字", and a window will pop up to educate you. If you want to install WeChat, sorry, you need to go to the designated "mobile phone service center" and queue up to apply. Only after passing the review can the staff install it for you. Rumor has it that even sending pictures and transferring files are now very strictly restricted.
You said this is a mobile phone?
This is more like a portable, 24-hour online counselor.
## One mobile phone, two North Koreas
It's actually quite divisive.
One is the vague folding screen in the hands of the senior management during the inspection, and the other is the fact that in order to obtain an "OEM" machine worth a few hundred yuan, the people at the bottom need to sell their livestock, and even embark on the illegal and devious way of smuggling medicinal materials privately.
On the one hand, the official media proudly explained the new functions of the "Matoushan" brand. On the other hand, Reuters conducted interviews with North Korean defectors, revealing how this type of mobile phone helped some mermaids to make a little more money on the black market in order to maintain their shaky lives.
We're here to wonder what brand they use.
They may want to find out more why some people use the same mobile phone to connect to the world, but others use it to connect to deeper loneliness.
That’s it, let’s stop there. In any case, the Apple and Huawei we have in our hands may become the next best-selling products in that place if the casings are replaced and the "Pyongyang" logo is affixed.
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