Foldable smartphone named after Escobar

The Pablo Escobar Fold 1 is a foldable smartphone named after Pablo Escobar, a well-known drug king.

This product is said to have been realized by Iadi of Roberto Escobar, brother of Colombian drug king Pablo Escobar, who is also known as the Netflix series. An Android 9 smartphone equipped with Qualcomm Snapdragon 8 series, equipped with a 16-megapixel and 20-megapixel camera, a 7.8-inch AMOLED screen, and a fingerprint recognition sensor.

According to the official site, it is a SIM lock-free model, and it is said to work on all networks in the world, including the United States. What catches the eye is the price. The 128GB model is $350 and the 512GB is $500. The price is incomparable to products such as Samsung Electronics’ Galaxy Fold and Huawei Mate X.

Roberto Escobar said in an interview that the competitor was not Samsung Electronics, but Apple. It explained that it was the way Apple took to beat Apple by reducing the intermediate distribution stage and creating a foldable smartphone that priced at $349. In addition, this product revealed that it is difficult to damage the middle of the screen by making the screen out of special plastic. It adopts special protection features that government agencies cannot access via Bluetooth, and it has a structure that blocks RFID and other communications with a thin metal layer cover.

However, it is said that this product is a rebrand of Loyol’s FlexPie and was not independently developed from the beginning. Related information can be found here .