North Korea is known for not much else apart from its political propaganda. The country’s technology has been known to be less than modern, but it has shown the world now, with the release of its newest phone, that even they are not above copying the iPhone 7.
The new phone in question is called the Jindallae 3 and is developed by North Korea’s Mangyongdae Information Technology Corporation. It has been advertised as being versatile and multi-functional, being available in white and black and most notably, borrows various design ques from the ever-famous iPhone 7, from speaker placement to dimensions. Even the software is a rip-off of the iPhone, with the UI looking eerily similar to the iOS, but functions more like an Android device.
There will be the regular variety of apps found on the smartphone, such as a browser, a photo app, a calculator, a music player, as well as North Korean card game. North Korea has also been known to manufacture similar rip-off devices in the past such as one particular iPad look-alike which came with a keyboard, 8GB of ROM and 1GB of RAM back in May. As far as the specifications go, there has not been much detail provided by news sources or official confirmation. The device was completely developed using locally sourced materials, hence the processor and other modules in the phone will probably have differently-made parts as compared to the ones found in international brands. The meaning for the name Jindallae is Azalea.
It is unclear exactly what software that the phone will feature, since every piece of technology in the country is sourced by North Korea and created exclusively by North Korea. The phone, or any other piece of technology, for that matter, will unfortunately be unavailable outside North Korean shores but many speculate that there will not be much that outsiders will be missing, considering that the country’s standard for creating new technology is based on cloning popular international devices like the iPhone and iMac. Even their Red Star OS for computers is a complete duplicate of the macOS.
The company behind the phone however, has stated that it has improved security features and is more convenient to use compared to phones developed in the past. Considering North Korea is closed off form the rest of the world, those security features may be put in place in order to prevent users from accessing content from outside their country.
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