"While the rest of the market is going one way, with selfie sticks and curved screens, we're going down another, to the heart of problems, sticking with privacy and security"
Silent Circle's Mike Janke said at the launch of the organization's
new secure smartphone, the BlackPhone 2. What's more he's dead serious — Even
though there are no shortcomings in the design, its knitted out with best
security measures possible.
The Blackphone 2 and
Blackphone+ tablet will both go on the market later in 2015, running the
organization's new PrivatOS Android-based OS and its own encrypted suite of communication
and service apps.
BlackPhone 2 has a 5-inch Full HD screen (secured on the outside by
Gorilla Glass 3), its running on a 64-bit Qualcomm octa-core processor,
supported by 3GB of RAM. A removable 3060mAh battery sits inside (with Quick
Charge 2.0 gimmicks), with micro SDXC for expandable memory.
It's on the product side where
things get some more fascinating, and that 3GB of RAM demonstrates its worth.
Despite the fact that its running on
Android, the smartphone is outfitted with Silent Circle's PrivateOS 1.1, an security
oriented, very secure layer that sits on top of Google's OS.
This gives clients a
"Spaces" UI, which keeps the diverse ranges of your versatile life
encoded and compartmentalized. It's basically a virtualisation framework,
letting the Blackphone 2 go about as independent "gadgets" inside
itself, actually offering distinctive log-ins running simultaneously on every
application or service. Thus, you can set up an Enterprise Space for your work
records, while a Personal Space for your private messages and saucy sexting
pics, and a Silent Space that is basically a like "Incognito Window” on
Chrome. This is very similar to the
Google’s ‘Android For Work’.
Glimpses of the BlackPhone
2 specifications:
Model
|
BlackPhone
2
|
Display
|
5-inch FHD
screen with Corning Class 3
|
Processor
|
64-bit
Qualcomm octa-core processor
|
GPU
|
-
|
OS
|
Silent
Circle’s PrivatOS
|
RAM
|
3 GB
|
Storage
|
Expandable
|
Battery
|
3060 mAh
|
Weight
|
-
|
Price
|
$629
|
Those looking to utilize the smartphone
for conference call will be at advantage additionally from the new Silent
Meeting. This gives you a chance to set up secure phone calls with 50 members.
Blackphone 2 has a serious
chance of securing better position in security aspects if it lives up to the
claims that it has made at the MWC2105. Blackberry will then have a serious
competition to face as its own devices are disastrous.
The organization believes
that high profile hacking like, the one on Sony Pictures in late 2014, will
convince different organizations to receive adopt the BlackPhone’s Technology
in its gadgets.