Android Tablet Gives Rare Glimpse At North Korean Tech 125
alphadogg writes "An Android tablet brought back from North Korea by a tourist has provided a glimpse at some of the restrictions placed on IT users in the famously secretive country. The Samjiyon is the third tablet to have gone on sale in North Korea. It was unveiled at a trade show in the capital, Pyongyang, last September and received some coverage on state television, but few westerners have had a chance to see it up close. The tablet was likely manufactured outside of North Korea and the hardware itself is fairly unremarkable, but the software and the usage restrictions placed on the device provide some insights about life in the country."
Lame summary (Score:5, Insightful)
Re:North Korean Tech at it's best (Score:4, Insightful)
It's not NoKo tech. It's Chinese hardware and American (and other) software imported to NoKo.
Re: North Korean Tech at it's best (Score:4, Insightful)
Re:puff piece (Score:0, Insightful)
You talking about the US?
Re:When you turn it on... (Score:5, Insightful)
You should follow you own advice and look at places other than the capital. It's pretty common for capitals of dictatorships to be at a significantly higher level of standard of living compared to the rest of the country..
Pick one of the smaller cities and zoom in.. you are indeed going to see lots of randomly scattered shacks.
Re:Lame summary (Score:5, Insightful)
Summary:
I'm so glad I live in an enlightened democracy, instead of that totalitarian hell hole.
Re: North Korean Tech at it's best (Score:3, Insightful)
and probably some big brother-style tech embedded in them
So you're saying that it runs vanilla Android?
Re: North Korean Tech at it's best (Score:2, Insightful)