Following on from its introduction back in March of this year, Silent Circle the developers and manufacturers of the pro-privacy Android smartphone Blackphone 2.
Have this week quietly made the new Blackphone 2 smartphone available to pre-order with shipping expected to begin next month during September 2015.
Unfortunately no pricing has been made available on the website, for the new privacy enhanced smartphone and anyone interested is required to contact the Blackphone 2 sales team in order to place a pre-order.
To recap the Blackphone 2 smartphone has been designed to provide users with more privacy whilst making calls, messaging and surfing the Internet. The hardware offers a 5.5 inch full HD touchscreen display and inside is a 64-bit processor together with more RAM. Building on the hardware that was included in the original.
Blackphone is the world’s first smartphone built from the ground u Youp to be private by design. Now with a faster processor, more RAM and a larger display. Silent OS is an Android-based operating system, enhanced to address mobile privacy concerns facing enterprises today. Free of bloatware, hooks to carriers, and leaky data, Silent OS puts privacy in the hands of you and your enterprise, without compromising productivity.
Both the original and Blackphone 2 phones are provided running Silent Circle’s PrivatOS which is a custom Android operating system that comes preloaded with privacy applications such as Silent Circle’s suite of secure messaging apps and SpiderOak secure cloud storage.
For more information on the new Blackphone 2 jump over to the official website for more details and to contact the company regards pre-ordering a handset.
Source: Silent Circle : TechCrunch