Gold Apollo AR924

The Gold Apollo AR924 is an alphanumeric one-way pager in a taco form factor sold under the brandname of the Taiwanese company Gold Apollo. According to a statement published by Gold Apollo on their web page on 18 September 2024, they are not the manufacturer of the device and had instead licensed the brand to the Hungarian company BAC Consulting.
Features
The PC-programmable and hand-programmable pager is equipped with 4 buttons with two-way scrolling, a 4 lines LCD screen, and a removable lithium battery, rechargeable via a USB-C connector, and lasting up to 85 days with 2.5 hours of charging.
The ministry's figures recorded no direct exports of any Gold Apollo-manufactured pagers from Taiwan to Lebanon during the same period, however indirect exports via third parties could not be ruled out.
Israeli manufacturing and explosions in Lebanon
Israeli intelligence personnel manufactured the pagers, with the versions shipped to Hezbollah included with explosives in the battery.
On 17 September 2024, some 5,000 AR924 pagers exploded almost simultaneously in Lebanon and parts of Syria, at around 3:30 pm local time, killing 12 people and injuring over 2,750. The explosions appeared to be a co-ordinated attack against the Lebanese Shia Islamist political party and paramilitary group Hezbollah. under a licence that had been in place for three years. BAC Consulting KFT cooperated with Gold Apollo and represented many of its products. However, Gold Apollo did not provide any evidence of the contract. DW which investigated BAC's official address in Budapest could not find any employees, resulting in speculation of it being a shell company. Cristiana Bársony-Arcidiacono, the CEO of BAC Consultancy denied they manufactured the devices claiming them to be intermediaries.

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