Brother of Drug Lord Pablo Escobar Launches 'Unbreakable' Foldable Smartphone (neowin.net) 107
Roberto Escobar, brother of the late drug lord Pablo Escobar, has announced a foldable smartphone that is "very difficult to break" thanks to the screen's "special type of plastic." The Escobar Fold 1, as it is called, significantly undercuts Samsung's Galaxy Fold and Huawei Mate X with a price of only $349. Neowin reports: While all the foldable phones announced so far have a price tag of at least $1,500+, the Escobar Fold 1 will be available from only $349 which includes free shipping and a case as well. It will be sold unlocked and work on all compatible networks worldwide. This makes it cheaper than other non-foldable flagship smartphones available in the market right now.
The drug lord's brother has been able to price the phone so low by cutting out the middlemen like networks and retailers. He is also preparing to file a $30 billion class-action lawsuit against Apple for scamming people and wants the company to "give some of their illegal profits back to the people." Like the Huawei Mate X, the Escobar Fold can be unfolded to turn it into a tablet with a screen size of 7.8-inches. The expanded AMOLED display has a 4:3 aspect ratio and an FHD+ resolution. The design language is different from the Samsung Galaxy Fold which features two separate displays, one of which folds.
The drug lord's brother has been able to price the phone so low by cutting out the middlemen like networks and retailers. He is also preparing to file a $30 billion class-action lawsuit against Apple for scamming people and wants the company to "give some of their illegal profits back to the people." Like the Huawei Mate X, the Escobar Fold can be unfolded to turn it into a tablet with a screen size of 7.8-inches. The expanded AMOLED display has a 4:3 aspect ratio and an FHD+ resolution. The design language is different from the Samsung Galaxy Fold which features two separate displays, one of which folds.
I'll buy (Score:5, Funny)
It comes with a mirror on the back (Score:2)
and a hollow tube stylus.
Surely they could have come up with a more winking name for this. For example a synonym of Bend is Crook. Or how about the escobar escape.
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You mean the one in fishscale.
Re: I'll buy (Score:2)
I'll take the brunette
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This is kind of more literal than you think. This company is suuuper suspicious. Escobar Inc seems to claim it was the holding company for Pablo Escobars wealth, and the company itself isn't shy about it, pointing out its handled over "100 billion" in assets. But that doesn't quite add up, since it was registered in 2014 with the intent of going after Netflix for the Narcos series. Else where the hundred billion is claimed to be from bitcoin. I dont think they had 100 billion, they wouldnt be chasing netfli
Re: I'll buy (Score:2)
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Just say no to drugs like I always do! Seriously? This obviously a drug money from his brother phone! No thank you!
And yet you happily will deposit your entire paycheck in a major US bank, as if the one running that company has never gotten away with anything.
I guess financial murder that created a recession that lead to actual deaths due to unemployment doesn't count 'cause drugs are bad, mmmkay...
Re: Just say no to drugs!!! (Score:1)
Just say know. And if you don't know, stfu.
Obligatory (Score:2)
Re: Just say no to drugs!!! (Score:2)
Good tactics (Score:3)
The drug lord's brother has been able to price the phone so low by cutting out the middlemen
...literally. Which a chainsaw.
Seriously though, I'd buy one: What could be cooler than flashing an Escobar cellphone in front of your friends when you need to answer a call?
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I've got a slowly dying Galaxy S5, so sure, I'd be interested in ... I'm not sure upgrading is the right word, but I'm interested in the specs and the price is certainly right!
Where do I check out the specs and if they are good, and deliverable, where do I buy one?
Also...
What are the security boffins saying about a drug dealer related phone?
I mean, when I buy a kilo of Peruvian marching powder online, I do NOT want the po-po to know! :(
Oh, silly me, I didn't watch the video!
Which has abundant pretty young w
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Oh, silly me, I didn't watch the video!
Which has abundant pretty young women and ... absolutely nothing about the phone or the screen, all the shots are from the wrong side.
There's plenty of more "revealing" videos on the web site.
(and not just seeing the phone from the front...)
Re: Good tactics (Score:5, Informative)
CPUâ" Octa-Core 2.8GHz Clock Speed
Chipsetâ" Qualcomm Snapdragon 8 Series, 8150, 64-bit Processor
GPUâ" Qualcomm Adreno 640
Cameraâ" 16 Megapixels f/1.8 + 20 Megapixels f/1.8 for Both Selfie & Back Photos, Dual LED Flash,ÂOptical Image Stabilize
Memoryâ" RAM- 6GB/8GB LPDDR4X | ROM 128GB/512GB External Memory Supported Up to 256GB
Display (Two)â" Screen size 7.8-inches Flexible, AMOLED, FHD+ (1920 x 1444 Pixels),Â4:3 Aspect Ratio (expanded mode), 308PPI
Batteryâ" Non-Removable 4,000 mAh Lithium-Polymer, 5V/5A
SIMâ" Dual SIM (Nano-SIM + Nano-SIM)
Sensorsâ" Fingerprint Sensor, Ambient light, Proximity, Accelerometer, Multi-axis gyro, Compass, Hall effect sensor, Barometer
Colorâ" Black
Operating Systemâ" Android 9.0
I/O Interfaceâ" 1 x Nano SIM Card Slot, 1 x Nano SIM Card Slot, 1 x microSD card Slot, Type-C USB Port, Type-C to 3.5mm Audio Out Port, Power Button, Volume Button, Microphone
Dimensionsâ" 134 mm x190.35 mm x 7.6 mm
Weightâ" 320 Grams (with Battery)
Variant â"Â6GB/128GB, 8GB/512GB
More Featuresâ" Foldable AMOLED Screen, Protection, LTE Cat-18, Fingerprint Scanner, Dual Camera, Dual SIM, Big Size Screen, HD Sound, USB Type-C, Loudspeaker, BDS, Bluetooth 5.1, Dual-Band Wi-Fi, 4:3 Ratio, Fast Charger, Noise Cancellation, Document Editor, 5V/5A Charger Output Power, VoLTE Support.
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You forgot to mention the included apps.
DDD (Drone Drug Delivery)
Kill this Mother Fucker. Just take a picture with the app and dozens of people will bid on the contract which is conveniently attached to PayPal as an in game purchase.
Snitch. It uses facial recognition AI to identify known snitches. It's also conveniently linked to Kill this Mother Fucker.
Spring. With one click you have access to bail bondsman, lawyers, etc.
Re: Good tactics - ban that guy! (Score:2)
Flexpai (Score:2)
According to the comments on the site this is a rebranded flexpai, that appears to be accurate: https://www.royole.com/ca/flex... [royole.com]
Re: Good tactics (Score:1)
I recently got a refurbished Galaxy S7 for $99. Buy a flagship that's a few years old.
Re: Good tactics (Score:2)
Re: Good tactics (Score:1)
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Seriously though, I'd buy one: What could be cooler than flashing an Escobar cellphone in front of your friends when you need to answer a call?
This guy gets it...
Who's gonna get laid tonight: Gold plated Escobar Man or the dweeb who just paid $1200+ for an iPhone?
$349 well spent, methinks.
Re: Good tactics (Score:1)
Who's going to get kneecapped at 9am the next morning?
Re: Good tactics (Score:1)
Re: Good tactics (Score:1)
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And make sure you show off that Casio F-91W watch while you do so.
I hope you watched the commercial in the article (Score:5, Interesting)
This is a cash grab and/or complete vaporware. Anyone who prepurchases this is going to lose their money.
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Because fucking LMAO it didn't show a foldable phone at all. Aside from the women in lingerie, all we saw was a book that was covered in shiny gold coloring. The model specifically moved in ways so that they never show the screen at all.
This is a cash grab and/or complete vaporware. Anyone who prepurchases this is going to lose their money.
I'd spend $349 just to be able to pull one of these out around other citizens who just paid $1000+ for a new iPhone.
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This is a cash grab and/or complete vaporware. Anyone who prepurchases this is going to lose their money.
I'd spend $349 just to be able to pull one of these out around other citizens who just paid $1000+ for a new iPhone.
Thank you for confirming that there are no actual poor Americans living in "poverty". Everyone is just addicted to stupid shit.
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If you're willing to fork out $350 for nothing other than to just rub your phone snobbery in somebody's face, you got issues, or a whole lot of disposable income, or both. Android fanbois are no better than Apple fanbois. I use both products, for personal and work, and there are pros and cons to each.
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Because fucking LMAO it didn't show a foldable phone at all.
There's a few videos on the web site that show it folding.
(Warning: NSFW)
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Not vaporware, just a weird rebranding of the Flexpai:
http://www.royole.com/us/flexp... [royole.com]
Like: what's better? A phone from a no-name Chinese maker, or a phone from the brother of a famous drug dealer? These are your only two choices!
Sam
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It's an offer I can't refuse.
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The whole thing looks like a shitty Indiegogo scam.
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Re:I hope you watched the commercial in the articl (Score:5, Informative)
Sure, unless you're sitting on literally Billions of dollars of cash that needs laundering through some sort of business venture. If all the components and manufacturing for the phones are paid for with "dirty money" it starts to clear that stockpile of cash that can't easily be spent (except with hungry Chinese tech corps that probably don't have to worry about demonstrating the money they took in was clean). Now all the money coming in from the sales is "clean" and ready for spending. Sure, the venture might cost half or more of the fortune you're sitting on (let's say it takes $700 to manufacture the phone that you're selling for $350) but having $10 billion you can spend is better than having $20 billion you can't.
Drugs? (Score:2)
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It is supposed to be hardened against government surveillance, in case you wanted to use the phone to order drugs and didn't want it to show up on government feeds ;-P
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Re: Drugs? (Score:2)
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It would be abnormal not to mention him since Roberto Escobar is the former accountant and co-founder of the Medellin Cartel [wikipedia.org]. It's not like he was an innocent bystander. We know who he is specifically because of what he did with his brother.
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A single mention makes sense. When people see the name Escobar, they're going to wonder if there's a relation. It's always good to preempt the obvious questions.
The repetition would be unnecessary. Anyone who cares would pick it up on the first mention.
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When people see the name Escobar, they're going to wonder if there's a relation.
Why? Do you do that with other super-common last names like Johnson or Nguyen?
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Poor guy (Score:2)
Whatever he does he will always be the 'brother of drug lord Pablo Escobar'
At this point the only way he's going to shake it off is if he goes into drugs himself.
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Whatever he does he will always be the 'brother of drug lord Pablo Escobar'
At this point the only way he's going to shake it off is if he goes into drugs himself.
Gee, I wonder how he got that moniker hung around his neck for life.
"Roberto Escobar...the former accountant and co-founder of the Medellín Cartel..."
Tell me the story of "poor" little Robby, who according to you was off playing hopscotch while his brother ruled the cocaine world.
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"Poor guy" isn't a description of someone who has created a phone using the money and name of his dead brother that was obtained through the murder of many thousands of civilians, often in the most brutal and horrific ways.
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"Poor guy" isn't a description of someone who has created a phone using the money and name of his dead brother that was obtained through the murder of many thousands of civilians, often in the most brutal and horrific ways.
Directly or indirectly, all his work was funded and armed by the USA.
Re: Poor guy (Score:1)
All indirectly. And thus the 'USA' is irrelevant.
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The USA could wipe out the drugs trade overnight - by legalizing/decriminalizing it.
Alcohol prohibition didn't work, drugs prohibition isn't working for exactly the same reasons.
Did legalizing alcohol turn everybody into a raging alcoholic? Neither will legalizing drugs. The sort of people who want to take drugs are already taking them.
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"Poor guy" isn't a description of someone who has created a phone using the money and name of his dead brother that was obtained through the murder of many thousands of civilians, often in the most brutal and horrific ways.
Directly or indirectly, all his work was funded and armed by the USA.
Directly or indirectly, anything and everything can be caused by or blamed on [target], making the entire statement worthless.
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Directly: The biggest market for South American drugs is the USA. It's US citizens' money that's going South.
Indirectly: The USA is keeping drugs illegal thus ensuring huge profits for anybody who can get them across the border. They're also selling them the weapons and machinery needed to keep the trade going.
No need to mention that relationship (Score:3, Insightful)
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Someone needs to hit you with a clue hammer or something. The brother was literally the co founder of the Medallin cartel and the company was initially a way for them to help launder their cash. If you would bother to actually go to the link or look at their site you would see Pablo Escobar everywhere. Roberto is proud of his relationship and for many, Pablo is a folk here.
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Re: No need to mention that relationship (Score:1)
Back in the Noriega days, I sometimes asserted that Noriega was just a modern day Joe Kennedy.
Off topic, but while we are on the topic of Kennedys, during the Camelot days of JFK when the secret service was whisking women in and out of the White House (supposedly including M. Monroe), JFK was actively infected with syphilis?
Nice! (Score:3)
Here's the music to read these comments with.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?... [youtube.com]
It appears to be called the PE Fold 1. (Score:4, Informative)
I mean, what else would the P stand for? There ain't no way that's an R.
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Stuff is "backwards" in Spanish, at least from how we do it, where we give adjectives or other descriptors first, and then explain what we're talking about. Like, in English we say black beans, and in Spanish you say frijoles negros, or beans which are black. In English, you get a bunch of information about a thing (it's fast, it's red, it's expensive... it's a car!) before you even find out what the fuck you're talking about. Still better than having ninety-jillion conjugations, I guess, and inanimate obje
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It's right there in the images on the linked site. It's not an Escobar Fold 1. It's a PE Fold 1. I take it his brothers drug money is funding this, and the P stands for Pablo?
I mean, what else would the P stand for? There ain't no way that's an R.
He's doing it in his brother's memory, nothing wrong with that.
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It's right there in the images on the linked site. It's not an Escobar Fold 1. It's a PE Fold 1. I take it his brothers drug money is funding this, and the P stands for Pablo?
I mean, what else would the P stand for? There ain't no way that's an R.
He's doing it in his brother's memory, nothing wrong with that.
Only because his brother's name is the one everyone knows.
Criminal Empires (Score:3)
(US Consumer) "Pablo Escobar's son is wanting to sell me a phone? No way. I would never do business with criminals!"
(CEO, US Banking Industrial Complex) "Damn, what's a guy gotta do around here to get some respect?"
Cheap Chinese phone with some bling slapped on? (Score:5, Informative)
It sure does look like one of these with some gold bits painted on.
https://www.alibaba.com/produc... [alibaba.com]
Yes. It's a Chinese phone called FlexPai. (Score:2)
http://www.royole.com/us/flexp... [royole.com]
Re: Yes. It's a Chinese phone called FlexPai. (Score:1)
Re: Yes. It's a Chinese phone called FlexPai. (Score:1)
Ducking spellchecker.
Re: Yes. It's a Chinese phone called FlexPai. (Score:2)
Do the girls... (Score:2)
That are shown in the video come with it? The video only showed the backside of the device. I prefer the other âoebacksidesâ shown in the clip.
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That are shown in the video come with it? The video only showed the backside of the device. I prefer the other âoebacksidesâ shown in the clip.
You need to check out the other videos on the web site... just sayin'.
Re: Do the girls... (Score:2)
We're about 5 months away (Score:2)
from April fool's day.
He's taking a page right out of the Trump playbook- accuse others of doing exactly what you have been doing... illegal profits?
A drug family foldable phone? (Score:2)
Re: A drug family foldable phone? (Score:2)
Vaporware you say? (Score:2)
bad reviews (Score:1)
Re: bad reviews (Score:2)
Re: bad reviews (Score:2)
Middlemen (Score:2)
"The drug lord's brother has been able to price the phone so low by cutting out the middlemen like networks and retailers"
Sounds more like a great money laundering strategy to me. Sell something people want, even if you make a small loss, as long as the money gets cleaned.
Name (Score:2)
My first thought, it was cryptographically unbreakable. He would have much larger user-base, if selling encrypted phone, especially with that name on.
The quotes in that article are gold (Score:2)
That's the type of word repetition I've heard in politics lately. Very good at convincing people, very very good. Best in class, even.
Also, Neowin still exist? Damn. That was more newsworthy than the drug-funded phone.
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That's the type of word repetition I've heard in politics lately. Very good at convincing people, very very good. Best in class, even.
What, you didn't take public speaking? I had to, in the usaf.
1. Tell them what you're about to tell them.
2. Tell them.
3. Tell them a summary of what you just told them.
Basically, we're taught to treat our audiences no higher than 7th-grade. And if it's pilots we're dealing with, then it's 3rd-graders.
So yes, don't know why it took you so long to notice but this type of repetition has been around for decades. Decades!
You want a real scare? Listen to Hitler run a rally, then listen to JFK run a rally.
Re: The quotes in that article are gold (Score:2)
Nothing is more newsworthy than cocaine! :P
Damn commies! (Score:2)
looks like a rebranded phone (Score:2)
Is just a rebadged Flexpai Foldable by Royole (Score:2)
Compare the Specs in TFA with the specs here:
http://www.royole.com/en/flexp... [royole.com]
And look at the pictures.
Dissasemble viedo Here:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?... [youtube.com]
So, the Phone exists since Oct 2018, so, I guess that prices have gone down, helped by the fact that this is probably made from surplus components, since probably royole is working on Version Two of it...
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has a tiny bit of potential (Score:1)
Unbreakable! (Score:2)
If it is unbreakable, then they should use it for bulletproof armor.
To unlock you have a choice... (Score:2)
+ Password
+ Fingerprint
+ Facial Recognition
+ Rub it across your teeth and gums
Brother of most infamous drug lord... (Score:2)
iFixit? (Score:2)
What could go wrong? (Score:2)
Let me just go out to the escobarinc website and pre-order one... let's see, credit card number, expiration date, CVV, SSN, Mother's maiden name.... DONE.
Man, this is going to be sweet!
More like..... (Score:2)
The drug lord's brother has been able to price the phone so low by cutting out the middlemen like networks and retailers."
More like he was able to "price the phone so low" by killing off the middlemen and competitors.
Scary shit (Score:2)
Check out the product page, then scroll down about halfway until you see the "Escobar Fold 1 - Escobar Girls" video:
https://www.neowin.net/news/br... [neowin.net]
Don't play it- just look at the women in the video thumbnail/cover shot. Take a moment and really look at them.
All these women look scary as shit to me, like freak show material. Or is it just me?
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"All these women look scary as shit to me, like freak show material."
They scream, "We are all that is in your price range."
Sensor list (Score:1)
Hola muchas felicidades en tu nuevo negocio (Score:1)
RICO (Score:2)