The BBC video said that the phones had no access to internet but if it has a News app, then it has some form of internet.
Maybe some form but “THE” internet is different from “A” internet. THE internet is the big global network that you access propaganda rags like the BBC on as well as the website for the Russian military, as well as the page for the New York History Museum as well as Temu among many other things. An internet could just be a few networks connected together and indeed could include access to news services even ones accessible via HTTP or similar.
So technically correct I suppose in that if true you can’t with that phone go and buy Yankees tickets online or post “down with western imperialism” in the comments section of the NYT but you can access remote networked resources. I approve of China’s great firewall so I can’t really argue against something like this.
NK has pretty wide access to a national network called Kwangmyong, which to my memory and understanding most closely operates like an intranet/extranet system. You have access to useful local resources at factories, government buildings, libraries, universities, etc. This really encouraged me to start moving my own stuff over to self-hosting because it was just so much nicer to use things in this way.
Then you have access to lighter stuff like news, weather, texting, etc. over the mostly 2g/3g mobile network. Honestly it’s very much like having a phone from 2008.
Maybe some form but “THE” internet is different from “A” internet. THE internet is the big global network that you access propaganda rags like the BBC on as well as the website for the Russian military, as well as the page for the New York History Museum as well as Temu among many other things. An internet could just be a few networks connected together and indeed could include access to news services even ones accessible via HTTP or similar.
So technically correct I suppose in that if true you can’t with that phone go and buy Yankees tickets online or post “down with western imperialism” in the comments section of the NYT but you can access remote networked resources. I approve of China’s great firewall so I can’t really argue against something like this.
NK has pretty wide access to a national network called Kwangmyong, which to my memory and understanding most closely operates like an intranet/extranet system. You have access to useful local resources at factories, government buildings, libraries, universities, etc. This really encouraged me to start moving my own stuff over to self-hosting because it was just so much nicer to use things in this way.
Then you have access to lighter stuff like news, weather, texting, etc. over the mostly 2g/3g mobile network. Honestly it’s very much like having a phone from 2008.