'We are changing things' -Colombia's Escobar family goes high tech with foldable smartphone

Record ID: 1450006

  • Title: 'We are changing things' -Colombia's Escobar family goes high tech with foldable smartphone
  • Date: 23rd December 2019
  • Summary: MEDELLIN, COLOMBIA (DECEMBER 20, 2019) (REUTERS) ESCOBAR INC. FOUNDER (AND BROTHER OF FORMER MEDELLIN CARTEL LEADER PABLO ESCOBAR), ROBERTO ESCOBAR GAVIRIA, DEMONSTRATING FOLDING SMARTPHONE, THE ESCOBAR FOLD 1, AND STANDING NEXT TO ESCOBAR INC. CEO, OLOF GUSTAFSSON ESCOBAR SPEAKING ON PHONE
  • Embargoed: 6th January 2020 16:50
  • Keywords: Colombia Escobar Pablo Smartphone bend cellular phone foldable screen tablet technology
  • Location: MEDELLIN, HACIENDO NAPOLES, BOGOTA & ANTIOQUIA, COLOMBIA
  • City: MEDELLIN, HACIENDO NAPOLES, BOGOTA & ANTIOQUIA, COLOMBIA
  • Country: Colombia
  • Topics: Economic Events,Editors' Choice
  • Reuters ID: LVA001BB75YDJ
  • Aspect Ratio: 16:9
  • Story Text: The family of Pablo Escobar, the Colombian drug kingpin and leader of the feared Medellin cartel, is going high tech and releasing an advanced smartphone with a foldable screen.
    Esocbar Inc. is hoping to use the worldwide fame of the family's name to sell the Escobar Fold 1, which they say will hit markets in January 2020.
    The Escobar Fold 1 will operate on Android and cost USD $349 in its most basic version with 128 gigabytes of memory and six gigabytes of RAM. Another version with 512 gigabytes of memory and eight gigabytes of RAM will also be released for USD $499.
    Roberto Escobar Gaviria, 72, founded Escobar Inc. in 1984. He is Pablo Escobar's biological brother and turned himself in to authorities in 1992 and spent 12 years in prison for belonging to the Medellin cartel.
    Pablo Escobar was killed in December 1993 in a joint Colombia-U.S. operation.
    (Production: Herbert Villarraga)
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