Preorders for joint venture between Geeksphone and Silent Circle to begin at Mobile World Congress
Coming next month at Mobile World Congress, we should get a look at the “Blackphone,” a joint venture between Geeksphone (you know them as being an early CyanogenMod supporter) and Silent Circle. BlackPhone aims to give a traditional Android experience that “prioritizes the user’s privacy and control, without any hooks to carriers or vendors.”
Specific details are slim at this point, but Blackphone promises “revolutionary communications” with secure phone calls and texts, file sharing and video chat.
It’s calling its version of Android (and we don’t yet know the base platform) “PrivatOS” and is headed up by Phil Zimmermann, who created the PGP standard of encryption widely used in e-mail. Other co-founding execs include Geeksphone’s Javier Aguera and Rodrigo Wilva-Ramos, PGP’s Jon Callas and ex-Navy SEAL and founder and fomer CEO of SOC Mike Janke.
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