Phil Zimmermann's 'Spy-Proof' Mobile Phone In Demand 107
An anonymous reader writes "BlackPhone was designed by Phil Zimmermann (inventor of PGP). The 4.7" display phone features a 2 GHz NVIDIA Tegra 4i ARM Cortex-A9 quad-core processor with 60 GPU cores, 1GB RAM and 16GB storage [more specs]. The OS is a customized version of Android called PrivatOS which offers encrypted calls, texts and emails that can't be unscrambled even by spy agencies. It also offers built-in resistance against malicious software which will be most welcomed for users worried about free Apps that are becoming increasingly invasive, if not pure data collection spyware for unknown 3rd parties. It's coming out this June, and many Fortune 50 companies have already ordered the phone to protect against industrial espionage."
Re:Limited market (Score:4, Informative)
It wont work.
I use textsecure: https://play.google.com/store/... [google.com]
and redphone: https://play.google.com/store/... [google.com]
which encrypt text and calls to other people who use it. Which includes my wife... because I installed it for her... and that's about it. My paranoid friends that might use such things wont even get a smartphone so... yea...
anyways, both applications are pretty good. I'm with Verizon and they have a TERRIBLE messaging app that they replaced the standard android app with. It literally crashes my phone it's so bad. So I replaced it with this. The only annoying bit is having to enter your password if you reboot the phone. Textsecure even sends the texts via the internet rather than using the cellular network to save you messages if the other users got it as well.
Re:And who makes the baseband? (Score:4, Informative)
It's not directly connected to the microphone. That's connected to an audio codec controlled by the application processor.