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Unboxing the Arirang 182 – A North Korean Feature Phone

2025-08-31, NKInternet
https://nkinternet.com/2025/08/31/unboxing-the-arirang-182-a-north-korean-feature-phone/

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In Lumen’s 2024 Smart Phones of North Korea report the Arirang 182 was noted as not having a lot of information currently available about it, so it seemed like a good time to see if we can learn more about the phone.
I recently had an opportunity to acquire the phone which included the complete box and packaging. I put a picture up on twitter when it came in but I’ve had some more time to look over the phone a little more.
According to the side of the box the phone has a 2.4 inch screen with a resolution of 320×240. While the cameras are not great one thing of note is that the side shows that the phone is IP68 rated. This appears to be designed as a rugged phone. This is also shown on the other side of the box which shows that the phone can be dropped from …