North Korea’s first “home-grown” smartphone, revealed with much pride and hyperbole by state media last year, appears to be little more than a made-in-China piece of landfill Android. In news which will come as little surprise to anyone outside the hermit kingdom, a Japanese blogger (via GSM Insider) managed to get hold of the …

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Wednesday 9th April 2014 07:02 GMT M Gale

7658MB RAM

SHUT UP AND TAKE MY MONEY.

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1. Wednesday 9th April 2014 07:17 GMT Anonymous Coward
  
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  Beat me to it... Anyway, seems like decent specs even if it is 768MB.
  
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  1. Wednesday 9th April 2014 08:24 GMT Mtech25
    
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    maybe the Typo is the M maybe it should be a K.
    
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Wednesday 9th April 2014 07:20 GMT Ole Juul

That factory

It actually looks pretty modern. They even managed to get a couple of LCD monitors for the photo shoot.

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Wednesday 9th April 2014 07:25 GMT Richard Wharram

Isn't 4.0.4. ICS rather than Jelly Bean?

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1. Wednesday 9th April 2014 12:02 GMT 20legend
  
  yep, it sure is.....
  
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Wednesday 9th April 2014 08:23 GMT Mtech25

Nooo

Next thing you will tell me NORKS are using model airplanes as Drones

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1. Wednesday 9th April 2014 10:26 GMT southpacificpom
  
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  Actually they're using a few old Airfix plastic kit planes.
  
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Wednesday 9th April 2014 10:25 GMT Lamont Cranston

Jelly Bean with no TouchWiz-style overlay?

I'd buy that for a Won!

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Wednesday 9th April 2014 12:02 GMT Anonymous Coward

The Evil West are trying to destroy our beloved nation!

...erm ok we'll use their hardware and software though ;-)

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Wednesday 9th April 2014 13:30 GMT Nigel 11

I wonder where they get their apps from, and how they stop stuff "leaking" through "their" handsets to the NSA?

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Wednesday 9th April 2014 13:55 GMT phil dude

random thought...

I don't know about anyone here, but I had a brain flash of a phone with dancing apps directly connected to the NORK high command. This, of course, compares to the dancing apps plastered by phone companies to make them seem "special"....

P.

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Thursday 10th April 2014 08:45 GMT Dr Patrick J R Harkin

I'm impressed at the standards

They wear hairnets and full gowns just to put the phones into the boxes. IMAGINE what the assembly facility must be like!

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Tuesday 22nd April 2014 07:16 GMT Anonymous Coward

Made in China and rebranded...

So... Same as most other phone companies then? With the exception that at least other companies vary the design a little.

I mean, its a screen (probably made by Samsung/other)

Memory (again third party)

CPU (based on ARM again third party manufacturer)

Motherboard and some peripherals...

OS by Google.

All bolted together by foxconn/other third party... Other than a bit of design how much actual manufacturer do "real" phone companies actually do now?

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