The State Duma bought Chinese smartphones for millions of rubles

September 24, 2021 it became known about the purchase of 450. smartphones Realme State Duma The contract for the supply of Realme C21 devices for 4.3 million rubles was concluded at the end of summer, they will be delivered by the end of 2021.

By September 24, 2021, the retail cost of Realme C21 smartphones with 64 GB built-in memory is about 9.5 thousand rubles. The number of purchased smartphones corresponds to the number of deputies of the State Duma of the VIII convocation.

The State Duma bought 450 Realme C21 smartphones for millions of rubles

Andrei Svintsov, a member of the information policy committee, in a conversation with the Daily Storm, explained that deputies had previously been equipped with gadgets of similar models. According to Svintsov, such budget phones are easy to use and are needed exclusively for work calls.

In the past convocation and the previous convocation, all deputies were given phones. I think that the decision is made by the State Duma apparatus on the basis of, as they say, construction characteristics,  "said Svintsov. -  They are quite simple, do not have any extra capabilities and we need only for communication, including in our trips to the regions.

According to the deputy, the phones that were issued to him in 2011 and 2016 still work (September 2021).

According to Eldar Murtazin, a leading analyst at Mobile Research Group, the state apparatus will gradually switch to the Android system, since Apple products are more prone to hacking. iPhone and its iOS are vulnerable to remote hacking, to unloading all the data on the smartphone. This was publicly discussed, Apple was even forced to release the so-called patch, and there are a lot of similar vulnerabilities on this platform, the expert explained. At the same time, the alternative in the form of a domestic smartphone is still unrealizable, since those gadgets that are used in highly specialized applications and are not suitable for civil servants, he added in a conversation with RBC.^[1]

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