Does he look like an HTC user to you?
(Credit: 154thmedia2012/YouTube; screenshot by Chris Matyszczyk/CNET)
When I hear that Kim Jong-un, North Korea's "supreme leader," has released a little movie about a missile attack on the U.S., one thought enters my head: I wonder what sort of phone he has.
There is a part of me that believes he must be sporting a flip phone, in order to show solidarity with his fellow people, most of whom couldn't afford a flipped pancake, never mind a phone.
Yet TechInAsia offered me the startling news this morning that the man who is often portrayed with a cigarette in his hand -- like a villain from an early Bond movie -- is in possession of what it says is a handy HTC smartphone.
It even offers pictorial evidence and claims that this phone is Android-powered, which will please recent visitor Eric Schmidt. (I've contacted both HTC and Google for comment and will update this post when I hear back.)
TechInAsia speculates that this fine, sturdy phone may be one of only 1.7 million cell phones in the whole of North Korea. This is surely fewer than in Silicon ... [Read more]
by Chris Matyszczyk via CNET
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