It’s the new crack.
Pablo Escobar’s brother just started peddling a foldable smartphone he predicts will be so addictive, it will replace the iPhone — and he’s using his murderous late drug-lord sibling to promote it.
“Imagine a reality, where you can ease fold your phone into a tablet,’’ crows the website for the firm of Roberto Escobar, the onetime accountant for the Medellin Cartel and Pablo’s older brother.
“This is now possible, thanks to the Escobar Fold 1,” the site says.
The screen of the phones displayed in accompanying videos feature Pablo’s famous grinning police mugshot — along with busty lingerie-clad women who coo over and caress the device.
Roberto, aka “El Osito’’ or “Little Bear,’’ once handled billions of dollars in illicit proceeds from his narco-trafficking sibling’s drug empire.
Roberto spent more than a decade behind bars for his crimes, while his brother ended up fatally shot by cops in Colombia in 1993.
Roberto now runs Escobar Inc., whose latest offering is the $349 phone. That gadget boasts a 7.8-inch flexible screen that expands from a standard phone into a tablet.
One website ad suggests that late Apple founder Steve Jobs could have only dreamed of such sophisticated technology.
“Apple Boy Steve once looked into space,” a voice bellows in the video. “He saw Pablo Escobar with a phone beyond anybody’s imagination.”
Escobar’s phone is an apparent rival to Samsung’s $2,000 Galaxy Fold, which hit US stores in September.
Apple has yet to roll out a foldable device, though reports have indicated one could come by 2021.
Roberto Escobar has claimed that his phone can beat Samsung and Apple devices with its low price and durability.
He added to digitaltrends.com that it “cannot break” because the screen is made from “a special type of plastic.
“I have told many people that I would beat Apple, and I will,” Escobar told the site. “I cut the networks and retailers to sell to customers phones that can fold for only $349, phones which in stores cost thousands of dollars by Samsung and others.”
He reportedly said it “cannot break” because the screen is made from “a special type of plastic.” It also comes unlocked and will work with any cellular network, according to Escobar Inc.’s website.
“I have told many people that I would beat Apple and I will,” Escobar told Digital Trends. “I cut the networks and retailers, to sell to customers phones that can fold for only $349, phones which in stores cost thousands of dollars by Samsung and others.”
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