Meet Blackphone: secure, encrypted, ‘Watch Dogs’ compatible smartphone

The lovechild of Silent Circle and Geeksphone is called Blackphone — an extremely paranoid smartphone said to be super secure and immune to privacy breaches. Ever since the Edward Snowden, NSA spy novel plot unfolded over the past few months, people have become more conscious, if not concerned, about their privacy. This phone is meant to finally take a stand against spy agents.

Silent Circle, headed by former navy seal and cryptographer Phil Zimmermann, is responsible for PrivatOS, which is said to be the security-oriented version of Android while Geeksphone has launched the first Firefox OS powered smartphone last year.

Blackphone hosts PrivatOS which will let you make and receive secure phone calls, exchange secure texts, exchange and store secure files, have secure video chat, browse privately, and even anonymize your activity through a VPN.

The smartphone is so shrouded in mystery and blackness that we don’t even know an inch of details about its hardware. Literally, there’s no information about anything from its screen size to its camera’s megapixel count. Maybe it doesn’t even have a camera… nobody knows.

To take the site’s word for it, Blackphone has the best-of-breed hardware with “performance benchmarks to put it among the top performers from any manufacturer.”

If you’re not sold yet, take a look at the video:

“The time has come. Data and humans have become one.”
On the official website Blackphone is described as “the world’s first smartphone to put privacy and control ahead of everything else.” Even “ahead of carriers and advertising.” How this is meant to achieved nobody knows. Whichever methods used, “Blackphone is re-shaping the landscape of personal communications.”

Zimmermann says in a press release, “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.”

We’ll uncover the rest of the details of this ominous gadget 24 February when it will be showcased at the Mobile World Congress, Barcelona, Spain.

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