BlackPhone is the world’s most secure smartphone
Well, this is interesting. We thought that one of the leading brands in smartphone market will make use of NSA spying scandal to make a ‘truly secure’ smartphone (though we feel that there is nothing that is truly secure) but today, Silent Circle and Geeksphone announced a new kind of smartphone, Blackphone. Blackphone is world’s first smartphone that is built for privacy and security. Blackphone is going to be shipped to buyers in June 2014. Apart from being highly secure, BlackPhone looks absolutely gorgeous and looks like the phone is very well built.
Available for pre-order today, this phone will lighten wallet by $629. Blackphone will also be available in select European countries via select partners. PrivatOS is new operating system build on Android and comes with long list of privacy enabled apps. Existing SilentCircle users can get two more years of subscription or get new subscription. Best part is that PrivatOS will be updated securely over the air by SGP technologies and will not be interfered by carriers.
Key Specification:
- 2GHz quad core CPU, 2GB of RAM and 16GB of storage
- 4.7” IPS panel 720p display.
- 8mp rear camera, 1.3mp front facing camera
- Bluetooth 4, 802.11n, GPS
- Silent Circle apps: Silent Phone, Silent Text, and Silent Contacts; anonymous search, private browsing, and VPN from Disconnect
“I have spent my whole career working to uphold the objectives of privacy,” said Phil Zimmermann, Co-Founder of Silent Circle and author of PGP. “Now that the mobile technologies are mature enough, we couldn’t be more proud of the launch of Blackphone, the first mainstream, fully-integrated secure communications phone, designed for anyone to use as easily as the legacy phones they’re used to already.”
Javier Agüera, Co-founder and CEO of Geeksphone said: “We are in a time of profound change in the industry. We are proud to have the privilege to be part of this transformation with a unique product, working with fellow innovators as extraordinary as Silent Circle, Disconnect and SpiderOak.”
“I have spent my whole career working towards the launch of secure telephony products,” said Zimmermann. “Blackphone provides users with everything they need to ensure privacy and control of their communications, along with all the other high-end smartphone features they have come to expect.”
Geeksphone is a young and dynamic Spanish Company headquartered in Madrid and specializing in the development, promotion and commercialization of “open source” mobile telephony solutions. Geeksphone pioneered the industry by becoming the first European brand to launch an Android™ smartphone in 2009, and launched the world’s first Firefox OS™-powered smartphone in 2013.
Silent Circle is a global encrypted communications service headquartered in Washington D.C. providing a revolutionary peer-to-peer platform for encrypted voice, video, text and file transfer on mobile devices via a secure, proprietary network, software and mobile apps. Silent Circle was co-founded by Mike Janke, former Navy SEAL and best-selling author and Phil Zimmermann, the world famous Silicon Valley creator of Internet encryption for voice and data and 2012 inductee into the Internet Hall of Fame, along with Jon Callas, co-founder of PGP Inc. and creator of Apple’s Whole Disk Encryption
