Sikur's phone, running a locked-down Android derivative.It enables encrypted security communcations.It is amongst the top quality phone launched at MWC15.
Brazilian security company SIKUR launched the GranitePhone on Tuesday, the latest in this year's most secure phone race at MWC15 show.
The GranitePhone, set to arrive in after mid of 2015, it has features of encrypted text messaging, voice, group chat, and email communications to others with GranitePhones or with iOS and ANDROID devices running the brazillian company's software. And it has locked down feature which stop's other software from being installed, according to Chief Operating Officer Leandro Coletti.
"You can't change the rules, you can't access the camera, you can't install apps," he said of the security-first approach. It's not for the common person, but the company expecting to sell 150,000 GranitePhones this year and more than twice that in 2016.
Few years ago, secure phones were an exotic market for common people. But mindset of common people changed drastically and dramatically with Edward Snowden's revelations about US and UK spy agency surveillance and about other major hacks like the one that exposed Sony's inner workings and employee data. Secure phones may not be mainstream, but businesses are interested, and encryption is spreading and increasing day by day.
In addition to the GranitePhone, Silent Circle unveiled its Blackphone 2, a successor to the secure phone they introduced in 2014. Jolla, which is trying hard to commercialize the MeeGo smartphone operating system that Nokia withdraw, announced a partnership with SSH Communications Security to make a locked-down mobile operating system,SAILFISH SECURE.
And kaymera said that its secure-phone technology software that uses a custom version of Android. Which runs on high-end mainstream phones like Google's Nexus products. The software encrypts data stored on the phone, data transmitted to and from the phone, and this how it prevent attacks, the company said.
The GranitePhone will be released in Brazil, Mexico, Chile, Colombia, the United States, and Middle Eastern countries including Qatar and the United Arab Emirates.
Sikur showed its GranitePhone operating system, a fork of Google's Android OS, running on GOOGLE NEXUS 5 phones. The company yet didn't announced its GranitePhone manufacturing partner or collaborater, said Fred Davila, Sikur's strategic alliance director. Building its own hardware lets Sikur to take more authority to control the software on phone, Coletti added.
The GranitePhone will has a Snapdragon processor in it, will be having at least 2GB of memory and a screen measuring about 5 inches diagonally, Davila said. Although it doesn't have a Web browser today, Sikur is working on one, he added. And some kind of app store for Sikur-approved software also is the works, Coletti said.
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