A review of North Korean domestic tablet 'Samjeong Tablet' released

Professor Rudiger Frank of the North Korean problem expert at Vienna University in Austria, the North Korean capitalPyongyangI found a North Korean tablet that was sold at. I bought it for 180 euros (about 24,000 yen), and I am publishing reviews of appearance and installed apps. According to Mr. Frank, although more than 2 million mobile phones are spreading, North Korea spreads this tablet only to the privilege class, "Germans get Mercedes Benz S class It is as difficult as. "

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The outer box of Samjeong tablet that Mr. Frank got. The model name is "SA-10". 1 GHz CPU, 1 GB RAM, 4 GB internal memory, 8 GB micro SD card as standard in the card slot. Built-in microphone and gyro sensor, screen is 7 inches, screen resolution is 800 x 480 pixels. The battery operates from full charge for 10 hours in audio mode and 5 hours in computer mode.


Inside comes with a micro USB cable, a dedicated charger, an earphone very similar to Apple's genuine products (no logo), and a TV connection cord.


Taking out it looks like this. It has a 2 megapixel camera on the front and no camera on the back.


The back side is treated like grip which is hard to slip, dimensions are 96 mm × 123 mm × 12 mm. In addition to the SD card slot, the output corresponds to connection to HDMI, headphone connector, TV, USB, there is no SIM card slot.


Analog TV signal can be received, you can watch North Korean TV.


The home screen looks like this and the wallpaper is where the rocket is flying. Default application such as 7GB dictionary and game is installed in the attached SD card.


The default application includes a multilingual dictionary application compatible with Chinese · English · French · German · Japanese · Russian · · ·


Also built in Korean dictionary application.


Music app that can listen to North Korean songs.


Map application in North Korea.


In the education library application, 141 ebooks sorted into 6 genres are saved.


From the modern Chinese book application it is possible to read ebooks that can learn modern Chinese business models and Chinese etc.



A textbook application is also installed, and a large number of textbooks of 141 in total are stored.


Contents of textbooks are mathematical ... ...


Various textbooks are prepared for each difficulty level of 10 levels, such as chemistry.


IT dictionary application corresponds to Korean, English and Chinese.


When Frank entered several words, "WLAN", "Android", "Apple", "Yahoo" etc hit, but there was no item of "Google".