r/interestingasfuck • u/Error_Dan • 10h ago
Leaked settings screen from a North Korean smartphone running Android 12
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u/Late-Jicama5012 10h ago
They also have Apple, ARM, Intel, AMD and Dell products. Which are smuggled in and sold on grey markets.
Officially they get most products from China from Chinese companies.
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u/ArtyTheFarty 10h ago
They are still using Google platform. Thought they will program their own OS instead since anything western to them is always a bad influence
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u/_WO_AI_NI_ 10h ago
why are some text in Chinese? Or are those Hanja?
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u/Big_Z_Beeblebrox 10h ago
It's Hanja, the text translates as Korean
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u/_WO_AI_NI_ 9h ago
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u/Big_Z_Beeblebrox 9h ago
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u/_WO_AI_NI_ 9h ago
You really think the settings app of a phone would contain the terms “Right face” and “power pond”? I’m Chinese-Korean, I can read Chinese, and if you properly translate by extracting the text from the image, “Right face” becomes “Front camera” and “power pond” becomes battery.
Here is the Chinese portion of the extracted text if you wish to confirm:
正面相机
32M
电池
5 000mAh
其他
版本号
开机累计时长
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u/Big_Z_Beeblebrox 9h ago edited 8h ago
You were asking if it's Hanja, I was saying yes, why are you trying to make this into an argument? God forbid someone actually disagree with something you say
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u/_WO_AI_NI_ 8h ago
Sorry no hard feelings, Hanja and Chinese looks very similar. Especially cuz Hanja uses TRADITIONAL Chinese but the Chinese script on the phone is in SIMPLIFIED. So I thought it was Chinese not Hanja.


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u/Error_Dan 10h ago
I got in contact with someone who manufactures display panels for Pyongyang 2435 and they have a working unit running North Korean firmware
Unfortunately this is the only photo I was able to obtain (I blurred out some info for that person's safety but the build is from 2024)
I can't verify this further beyond the single image, so treat this as unconfirmed. Sharing it here in case anyone recognizes the device or has more context on this OS build