SamtaesongsmartphoneLast featured Nov 2025
Samtaesong 8
I'd skip itI'd give this a miss.
A North Korean flagship that costs close to $1,000 but looks and performs like a dated copy of a 2021 mid-range Huawei, with heavy censorship and surveillance.
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- Price when I covered it
- close to a thousand dollars
- Featured in
- 1 video · 2025
- Category
- Phones · Concept & rare
What I liked
- Nothing stood out.
What I didn't
- Buggy camera
- Stuck on Android 11
- Copied Huawei design and content
- Censorship and screenshot surveillance
In my words
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“It was priced pretty close to a thousand dollars, but it looks like a mid-range Huawei phone from 2021.”
“it is terrible value when you consider the global market.”
“the camera is super buggy. We couldn't even get it to flip around to the rear cameras.”
Every time I covered it
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0:28Testing North Korea's illegal smartphonesA North Korean flagship that costs close to $1,000 but looks and performs like a dated copy of a 2021 mid-range Huawei, with heavy censorship and surveillance.
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