Comments on: Samjiyon Android tablet debuts at Pyongyang trade fair https://www.northkoreatech.org/2012/09/28/samjiyon-android-tablet-debuts-at-pyongyang-trade-fair/ Tue, 30 Dec 2014 17:09:06 +0000 hourly 1 http://wordpress.org/?v=4.1 By: amy https://www.northkoreatech.org/2012/09/28/samjiyon-android-tablet-debuts-at-pyongyang-trade-fair/#comment-166059 Sat, 06 Sep 2014 17:41:14 +0000 http://www.northkoreatech.org/?p=3505#comment-166059 It’s an open-source OS based on Linux kernel. The differences in license scheme (as opposed to GNU Public License, which is less restrictive than Apache) does not change the fact that anyone can obtain source code. That does not mean Google or Open Handset Alliance is “exporting” the code to DPRK. Rather it could be considered a software piracy by the KCC (it is KCC that is using the source code in violation of the Apache license). But what are they going to do? It’s mostly unenforceable and even it were, it’s not worth Google’s time.

In any case, it is most likely one of those “China tablet” makers in Shenzhen — the same companies that export under-$100 range Android tablets to the U.S. — that OEMed the tablet to KCC. So the OS was installed by a company in China, which isn’t under any sanction.

]]> By: A recent history of North Korean computers | NK News - North Korea News https://www.northkoreatech.org/2012/09/28/samjiyon-android-tablet-debuts-at-pyongyang-trade-fair/#comment-89403 Tue, 08 Apr 2014 11:53:26 +0000 http://www.northkoreatech.org/?p=3505#comment-89403 […] Samjiyon got its debut at the Pyongyang Autumn International Trade Fair. Coming from the KCC’s Multimedia Technology Research Institute, the tablet doubles as a portable […]

]]> By: William A Ferguson https://www.northkoreatech.org/2012/09/28/samjiyon-android-tablet-debuts-at-pyongyang-trade-fair/#comment-85097 Fri, 07 Feb 2014 20:26:31 +0000 http://www.northkoreatech.org/?p=3505#comment-85097 “So, ASF software is governed by export controls, but I’m not knowledgeable enough to interpret them. If anyone knows whether Android falls under U.S. export controls, please email me or leave details in the comments.”

Android does.

North Korea is under sanctions. They’re not even supposed to have this.

]]> By: North Korea's Samjiyon Tablet Ships With Angry Birds, Gone With the Wind, but No Wifi (video) - The Digital Reader https://www.northkoreatech.org/2012/09/28/samjiyon-android-tablet-debuts-at-pyongyang-trade-fair/#comment-71706 Wed, 06 Nov 2013 20:52:39 +0000 http://www.northkoreatech.org/?p=3505#comment-71706 […] tablet was initially unveiled last September and has been showing up here and there on the web. The current best guess places this as either a […]

]]> By: samjiyon: nordkoreas tablet » gizmeo.com | inside the machine https://www.northkoreatech.org/2012/09/28/samjiyon-android-tablet-debuts-at-pyongyang-trade-fair/#comment-71635 Wed, 06 Nov 2013 12:22:03 +0000 http://www.northkoreatech.org/?p=3505#comment-71635 […] (Bildquelle: via) […]

]]> By: On North Korea’s surprisingly amazing tablet you can play Angry Birds and read Dickens – Quartz https://www.northkoreatech.org/2012/09/28/samjiyon-android-tablet-debuts-at-pyongyang-trade-fair/#comment-71083 Fri, 01 Nov 2013 18:07:50 +0000 http://www.northkoreatech.org/?p=3505#comment-71083 […] we learned just over a year ago that North Korea had developed a tablet that runs on Google’s popular Android operating system, we didn’t take the device too […]

]]> By: Kuzey Koreli şirketten Wi-Fi bağlantısız Samjiyon Android tablet https://www.northkoreatech.org/2012/09/28/samjiyon-android-tablet-debuts-at-pyongyang-trade-fair/#comment-58025 Thu, 27 Jun 2013 15:07:32 +0000 http://www.northkoreatech.org/?p=3505#comment-58025 […] >> North Korea Tech, The Wall Street […]

]]> By: North Korea releases a tablet, with no internet | https://www.northkoreatech.org/2012/09/28/samjiyon-android-tablet-debuts-at-pyongyang-trade-fair/#comment-58019 Thu, 27 Jun 2013 14:32:47 +0000 http://www.northkoreatech.org/?p=3505#comment-58019 […] lacklustre and comical attempts to do anything of any real substance. Their latest failure is the release of their new tablet device to rival the iPad, the […]

]]> By: North Korean company unveils Android-based Samjiyon tablet sans wifi | simples WordPress https://www.northkoreatech.org/2012/09/28/samjiyon-android-tablet-debuts-at-pyongyang-trade-fair/#comment-57993 Thu, 27 Jun 2013 07:13:10 +0000 http://www.northkoreatech.org/?p=3505#comment-57993 […] North Korea TechImage via […]

]]> By: What is behind the debut of the North Korean tablet? | Sigma Iota Rho Journal https://www.northkoreatech.org/2012/09/28/samjiyon-android-tablet-debuts-at-pyongyang-trade-fair/#comment-37108 Sun, 27 Jan 2013 18:38:09 +0000 http://www.northkoreatech.org/?p=3505#comment-37108 […] Apart from the strategic military alliance, America and South Korea are strong technological competitors. In the battlefield of tablets, Apple’s iPad/iPhone and Samsung’s Galaxy are wrestling for larger market shares and brand reputation.  Any launch of a new tablet product will catch their attention, and North Korea is not an exception. It is still unknown why North Korea will choose to manufacture tablets and step beyond the military to the economic and technologic race. However, other tablet manufacturing giants do not have to worry about market competition with North Korea. Unlike any other market competitor whose products are distinct and sophisticated, the North Korean Samjiyon tablet seems to be a clone of simple tablets elsewhere. Technology journalist Martyn Williams gives some close observation of the product in his blog. […]

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