North Korea shows off new tablet PC - Polidicks

[URL]http://blogs.wsj.com/korearealtime/2012/09/27/heads-up-android-fans-here-comes-north-korea/[/URL] [media]http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=9muUkOiQ3kc[/media] Wat

who needs food, when you have tablets!

Oh god it's running Android 2.3 that's adorable

Communism runs on Android :v:

Kim Jung Un: Thanks, Eric Schmidt!

Why do they keep doing this? Are they really so deluded to think that the rest of the world is fooled by this?

It's like an infomercial from the 90's.

Oh now it runs ICS, what

The video looks like a 90s documentary. Bah, ninja'd

Future warfare with North Korea [media]http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ydIPKkjBlMw[/media]

Best Korean engineering.

I'd love to own one and in 20 years it'd be old North Korean technology :v:

[QUOTE=JustGman;40532477]It's like an infomercial from the 90's.[/QUOTE] Clearly, North Korea had a childhood. North Korea remembers.

Damn, that schoolteacher was hot for a starving chick.[QUOTE=JustGman;40532477]It's like an infomercial from the 90's.[/QUOTE]I am loving that generic 80's music too. You know, the stuff that the license expired on and it became general use, so all those cheap infomercial companies used it. Really adds some nice ambiance, I think.

[QUOTE=fruxodaily;40532464]Oh god it's running Android 2.3 that's adorable[/QUOTE] That's the charm(?) of North Korea: everything new they try always somehow ends up being outdated.

Who will be able to afford one? I guess it'll just be for military and schools?

It's probably rocking an Allwinner A10 or something. The chipset is dirt-cheap, Android is free and it's easy to skin. Takes no real effort, all you really need to do is kidnap a few tourists who also happen to be electrical and software engineers, hold them for 6 months and you're done. Edit: Also, Allwinner's design is open if I remember correctly, and it was designed and built in China, who is in relations with NK.

high tech

If they can do this while being the most technology deprived country on this earth. Imagine what they could do with modern production capabilities and technology. I've said it before and I'll say it again. North Korea has the potential to become one of the strongest economies in Asia. If it wasn't so intent on waving their nukes around and being so scary.

[QUOTE=RentAhobO;40533299]If they can do this while being the most technology deprived country on this earth. Imagine what they could do with modern production capabilities and technology. I've said it before and I'll say it again. North Korea has the potential to become one of the strongest economies in Asia. If it wasn't so intent on waving their nukes around and being so scary.[/QUOTE] I believe you're describing south korea

Good job google! [IMG]http://www.loaditup.de/files/768533_p2mn3afnud.jpg[/IMG]

[QUOTE=striker453;40533370]I believe you're describing south korea[/QUOTE] Basically, North Korea could quickly become a leading economy if they integrated with the rest of the world. In my opinion NK is holding Asia back.

But I don't understand, how are they running Android? It's an imperialist OS.

[QUOTE=Bletotum;40532473]Why do they keep doing this? Are they really so deluded to think that the rest of the world is fooled by this?[/QUOTE] I don't think they are. Also, they wouldn't really need to impress the rest of the world since they're already threatening to nuke it every other day. Seems to me that this is a lot more for the North Korean people, as propaganda. Propaganda to convince people that North Korea, firstly, has a strong enough Command Economy to allow the production of pointless shit like tablets and, secondly, that they're a forward thinking nation making quick advancements in technology. Which is also the reason why it's on YouTube in the first place, rather than just being broadcast on their television news. Considering that most of their people are taught that America and Europe are horrible places, it's not hard to spin it so that it seems NK has invented the coolest thing since sliced bread. tl;dr North Korea's overcompensating for its dinky little command economy by producing shit like this to impress its own people rather than the rest of the world.

[QUOTE=zugu;40533483]But I don't understand, how are they running Android? It's an imperialist OS.[/QUOTE] Probably because they can't make their own OS. So they imported one.

[QUOTE=zugu;40533483]But I don't understand, how are they running Android? It's an imperialist OS.[/QUOTE] They liberated it, and have taught it proper Juche ideals.

[QUOTE=zugu;40533483]But I don't understand, how are they running Android? It's an imperialist OS.[/QUOTE] NK's pretty big on Linux based OS', memory serving they also made a desktop Linux OS a few years back called Red Star, it's probably because of the whole open-source thing. In a way it's funny, they've got no qualms with pissing off pretty much all nations on earth, but copyright infringement is crossing the line.

bless glorious leader Kim Jong Un for spying imperialist technology from 2010 *sarcasm*

[QUOTE=Bletotum;40532473]Why do they keep doing this? Are they really so deluded to think that the rest of the world is fooled by this?[/QUOTE] They have fooled one or two people (couple US soldiers defected back in the Korean War, they at least claim to have completely fallen for NK's rhetoric) but for the most part this is just to fool their own people, the majority of North Koreans have no contact with the outside world beyond what propaganda tells them, and what propaganda tells them is that the rest of the world is even worse and less modern, yes, really. So stuff like this comes across as pretty impressive to them.

Well, I have to say this: North Korea's brand new tablet. Now including USA Nuke Bombing Simulator and other (not) cool stuff in a shitty asian language.