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.
Specs
The device has a 7-inch screen with a resolution of 1024 by 768 pixels and runs Android 4.0.4, known as Ice Cream Sandwich. Under the hood is a 1.2GHz processor, 8GB or 16GB of internal storage, depending on the model, and a 2-megapixel camera.
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