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Silent Circle Blackphone - Out in June for $630 US

posted by mattie_p on Monday February 24 2014, @07:29PM   Printer-friendly
from the security-will-cost-you dept.

fliptop writes:

"Promising that orders will start shipping in June, Silent Circle has announced the Blackphone is ready for pre-orders. (Domain registered in Switzerland)

Touted as 'The high-end smartphone which puts privacy and security ahead of everything else' the Blackphone has a 4.7" screen, 2GHz quad-core CPU and 16GB storage. It also includes several Silent Circle apps.

The Blackphone makes use of a customized version of Android called PrivatOS, is fully unlocked, and the encryption can be used on any compatible network. Purchase includes a 1-year subscription to the apps; after that it's $10 a month (in addition to your carrier's charges).

In order to take advantage of the encryption, the other person you're communicating with has to have their own Blackphone or use Silent Circle apps on their Android or iOS phone."

 
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  • (Score: 1) by cykros on Tuesday February 25 2014, @02:45AM

    by cykros (989) on Tuesday February 25 2014, @02:45AM (#6345)

    You have a smartphone that costs only slightly more than $100? I'd be curious to hear where exactly that's coming from, unless you're not taking into account any "discounts" from the carriers who rope you into their plans. $600 is only on the moderately high side of the smartphone market...even the Nexus models are a good few hundred bucks to begin with.

  • (Score: 2, Interesting) by Appalbarry on Tuesday February 25 2014, @04:03AM

    by Appalbarry (66) on Tuesday February 25 2014, @04:03AM (#6378) Journal

    You have a smartphone that costs only slightly more than $100?

    Currently running a Samsung Discover, [samsung.com] running ICS in all it's glory. Cost about $100 CDN, was sold as a "Pay As You Go" phone, but works with my Telus SIM.

    Sure, it's underpowered, it has to be rebooted daily or the Bluetooth won't connect, and for some reason it won't charge using the cigarette lighter USB plug in the truck, but hey - it was only a hundred bucks.

    Good enough for the time being.

  • (Score: 2) by mcgrew on Tuesday February 25 2014, @02:18PM

    by mcgrew (701) <publish@mcgrewbooks.com> on Tuesday February 25 2014, @02:18PM (#6610) Homepage Journal

    I have no contract, that's the price of the phone. And it's waterproof! I've lost 3 phones to liquid, one dropped in a toilet, one dropped in a cup of coffee (my ex-wife did that one) and one when I was caught in a pouring rainstorm.

    My youngest daughter tells me she's ditching her iPhone (with its cracked screen, she's broken quite a few of them) and AT&T for a phone like mine [boostmobile.com] and my cheap carrier.

    I see they've come down, they're $99 now. I paid $125 last year.

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