Pro-privacy communications provider Silent Circle and open source mobile specialist Geeksphone have joined forces to create the Blackphone – a smartphone that claims to be the first to place privacy and control in the hands of the user.
The two companies have formed a Swiss-based joint-venture and the first Blackphone will be manufactured by Geeksphone, which created the first the first Firefox OS developer handsets (and introduced Android to the Europeam market in 2009). The companies plan to show the first Blackphones at Mobile World Congress (MWC) in Barcelona next month.
Blackphone runs a security oriented version of Android known as PrivatOS and promises to allow users to make and receive secure phone calls, exchange secure text messages and transfer and store files without compromising their privacy.
“I have spent my whole career working towards the launch of secure telephony products,” says Phil Zimmerman, creator of Pretty Good Privacy (PGP) and Silent Circle. “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.” Full story...
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The two companies have formed a Swiss-based joint-venture and the first Blackphone will be manufactured by Geeksphone, which created the first the first Firefox OS developer handsets (and introduced Android to the Europeam market in 2009). The companies plan to show the first Blackphones at Mobile World Congress (MWC) in Barcelona next month.
Blackphone runs a security oriented version of Android known as PrivatOS and promises to allow users to make and receive secure phone calls, exchange secure text messages and transfer and store files without compromising their privacy.
“I have spent my whole career working towards the launch of secure telephony products,” says Phil Zimmerman, creator of Pretty Good Privacy (PGP) and Silent Circle. “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.” Full story...
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