North Koreans have gained unprecedented connectedness with greater access to media and devices like cellphones over Kim Jong Un’s five-year rule. But residents’ embrace of a state-controlled network has opened the way to unparalleled state censorship and surveillance in the long-isolated, totalitarian country.
Category: Cellphones
Is Moto G5 Plus, Samsung Galaxy S7’s budget-friendly avatar?
Despite its budget constraints, the Moto G5 Plus tries to match the mighty Samsung galaxy S7, but fails, says Himanshu Juneja The Mobile World Conference 2017 at Barcelona, Spain, saw Motorola unveiling its much anticipated Moto G5 handsets. The Lenovo-owned Moto G series has had an enviable record of being a front runner for the budget line of smartphones and the latest Moto G5 duo seem well equipped to carry forward that legacy.
[Weekender] Driven by parents’ desire, Korea’s kids market thrives
Kim Ji-young, a mother of a 7 year-old boy in Seoul, has been busy shopping. “My kid becomes a first grader this school year and there’s a lot to buy before he starts to attend classes,” she said, adding that she has been looking for a desk.
At Mar-a-Lago, Trump tackles crisis diplomacy at close range
The iceberg wedge salads, dripping with blue cheese dressing, had just been served on the terrace of Mar-a-Lago Saturday when the call to President Donald Trump came in: North Korea had launched an intermediate-range ballistic missile, its first challenge to international rules since Trump was sworn in three weeks ago. The launch, which wasn’t expected, presented Trump with one of the first breaking national security incidents of his presidency.
Signal jammers to be installed soon at Cebu City jail
CEBU City Mayor Tomas Osmena will put up signal jammers at Bagong Buhay Rehabilitation Center in Barangay Kalunasan this year. Osmena said in a news conference on Monday, January 30, that he plans to install more or less four signal jamming devices in the jail facility that even policemen cannot use their cellphones.
SIM, IMEI Amount & SAM
Demand for Apple’s bigger, more expensive iPhone 7 Plus smartphones is great – but supply/demand balance may well not happen this quarter. Armed with several iPhones and a higher speed training video camera with the capacity of saving at up to 15,000 fps, we hoped to find out just what kind of impact causes broken glass with an iPhone.