When it comes to the world of smartphones, you could say that South Korean manufacturers such as LG, Samsung and Pantech have come an extremely long way since their early days of foraying into this highly competitive market. Back when Samsung’s phones felt like they used extremely cheap plastic that could break all too easily, and Nokia was the 800 lbs. gorilla that did not look as though they could be toppled, ever, not many folks would jump aboard a Samsung or LG handset. Well, things have definitely changed after more than a decade, hasn’t it? While South Korea has successfully made the jump to being a developed country, its neighbor North Korea, with whom they are technically still at war with, is portrayed as a desolate country with a starving population because the government of the day has a very alternative viewpoint in running the country. Still, North Korea is said to be working on Arirang, its very own smartphone brand.
Sources from China claim that the Communist-controlled country happens to be working towards their first smartphone ever, and to be more specific, it is going to be called the Arirang AS1201. Apparently, the Arirang AS1201 will run on the Android operating system, and better they roll out a smartphone that nuclear weapons, don’t you think so?
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