You will not believe who is the big beneficiary of the NSO affair

The NSO affair shakes public opinion and the political system, but there are also big gainers: the H.I.

NOKIA importer reports more than 200% jump in old-generation Nokia phone sales since the affair exploded.

Brand Manager: "There's a crazy rise, it's coming out of nowhere. I'm trying to get more"

Between Ashkenazi

09/02/2022

Wednesday, 09 February 2022, 12:23 Updated: 12:42

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The NSO's Pegasus spyware affair shakes up the police, legal and political system, but there are those who are a little less bothered, or in fact - even happy.

HI Group, Nokia's importer to Israel, reports a 200% increase in the purchase of older generation phones.

Those that do not connect to the Internet, do not allow browsing and are absent from messaging platforms such as WhatsApp, Telegram and others.

According to data provided to Walla by the HI Group, over the past three days, over 4,000 old-generation Nokia units have been purchased, while in a normal week, between 1,000 and 2,000 devices are usually sold.

And how much do they cost?

If you want to get the simplest 'stupid' phone there is that only includes the option to receive and make calls and send and receive SMS messages, you will have to part with about NIS 100 ...

A slightly more sophisticated phone that includes games and video, but also without internet will cost about NIS 270. Still barely 10% of the price of an average smart device ..

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20 years ago he was the star of the cellular scene.

Nokia's 'stupid' phone, we'll see if you can get one (Photo: ShutterStock)

"Inventory is shrinking"

For many of us, the name Nokia was almost synonymous with cell phones, when the popular 5100 and 6200 models were first marketed, small (relative to finds in those days of the second half of the 1990s and early 2000s) and reliable.

But being late in joining the Touch revolution, left the Finnish manufacturer mostly as a memory, while the market was occupied by Apple, Samsung and Chinese manufacturers.

Nokia continued to be a strong brand mainly among the ultra-Orthodox population, but also among those who feared wiretapping, long before the current affair.

It's not that the "stupid" phones are immune from eavesdropping, but eavesdropping on them is much more complicated than the smartphones, what's more, the information stored in them is less.

Liab Ron, manager of the NOKIA brand in the HI Group, tells Walla: "There is a meteoric increase in the sale of old-generation phones called" Pitz-Von ". Simple Send and End phones, the increase in sales is something crazy. out of nowhere".

"More than doubling the normal sales rate during a normal business week"

"Between Hadera and Gedera, where most of the sales are concentrated. And I understand where you are heading, but we checked it and it's not just cities where there is a large Haredi concentration, especially among the Haredim according to the tests we did with the cellular stores we work with."

"Only hackers and law enforcement can answer this question but by and large the old-generation feature-phone that is not a smartphone does not have content like Facebook and Instagram so in advance there is not much content that can be taken from the device"

"You can buy simple phones that have WhatsApp,

"If I had more old generation phones in stock I would sell a lot more, we can order in advance from the overseas supplier but I can not predict what will happen next.

I can say that the stock is shrinking and I am in talks with the dance supplier. "

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