What? Another Android derived OS on a secure phone? This won't be like 100% perfect! Can't they come up with the embedded Linux OS for that? Why is it based on Android? The smartphone version of Ubuntu called Ubuntu Touch is likely to be arriving sometime this year perhaps to teach Google a security lesson or something but I don't know if Blackphone's OS can teach the spies the same lesson as well.
It is an unlocked phone and works with any GSM carrier, maintains your privacy and security, gives you the freedom to choose your carrier, your apps and your location. Phone calls, SMSes, files, chats can be secured through the VPN but we don't know what kind of VPN this one uses. Will that VPN be free or something?
This is developed by Silent Circle, which might have brought us their secure email service previously and right now, both the OS and that mail service are still in development and I don't know if people around the globe will be using them once they are out. The Android based OS is called PrivatOS. Another company called Geeksphone is involved in this project as well so we're looking forward to it.
