As you may have seen on several occasions Blackphone is a company that offers a smartphone that focuses heavily on the privacy and security of your data. For this, the smartphone runs a modified version of Android, named PrivatOS, which offers support encryption of your phone calls, SMS and other communications.
But, it can be difficult to find third-party applications that respect your privacy as much as the operating system itself. To do this, and in a future update PrivatOS, it will bring a new application store ( app store ) focusing on privacy, among others .
PrivatOS 1.1 will be launched in early 2015 , providing support for the "Spaces", which will allow you to create multiple environments on a single device. In other words, you'll be able to have space for all your applications, contacts and other data related to your professional world, and one for the house, for example. You can also use these spaces to create an experience reserved for your children.
The update will bring the so Blackphone App Store, which will offer a selection organized applications that have been selected because of their support for privacy features.
Technically, you can still install any Android application on a Blackphone. But, if you spend $ 629 on a smartphone whose main characteristic is to protect your privacy, it would be silly to install a Facebook or Amazon application, which would allow these companies to track your personal information.
But do not expect not find the same wide range of applications in the App Store Blackphone than what you find on the Google Play Store. I suspect that a tiny fraction of the million or more applications in the Play Store are part of the selection.
Blackphone CEO, Toby Weir-Jones, told the Guardian that the secure application store is not going to ahead of the games or applications related to social networks, but rather a selection carefully focused on privacy.
Despite Blackphone security assertions, some industry experts have questioned the degree of protection that the smartphone can offer users. While the lack of pre-installed Google applications on the device means that users do not share data without their knowledge with the web giant, government monitoring programs such as the recent scandal of the other PRISM Atlantic side are unlikely to be hampered by the smartphone security features.
Despite this, the launch of a dedicated app store should at least provide owners of Blackphone greater choice of applications for the -C.
The Blackphone began to be sold this summer, and has a 4.7 inch screen, an NVIDIA Tegra 4i processor, 1GB of RAM, 16GB of internal storage, and a support LTE and HSPA + networks.
But, it can be difficult to find third-party applications that respect your privacy as much as the operating system itself. To do this, and in a future update PrivatOS, it will bring a new application store ( app store ) focusing on privacy, among others .
PrivatOS 1.1 will be launched in early 2015 , providing support for the "Spaces", which will allow you to create multiple environments on a single device. In other words, you'll be able to have space for all your applications, contacts and other data related to your professional world, and one for the house, for example. You can also use these spaces to create an experience reserved for your children.
The update will bring the so Blackphone App Store, which will offer a selection organized applications that have been selected because of their support for privacy features.
But do not expect not find the same wide range of applications in the App Store Blackphone than what you find on the Google Play Store. I suspect that a tiny fraction of the million or more applications in the Play Store are part of the selection.
Blackphone CEO, Toby Weir-Jones, told the Guardian that the secure application store is not going to ahead of the games or applications related to social networks, but rather a selection carefully focused on privacy.
Despite Blackphone security assertions, some industry experts have questioned the degree of protection that the smartphone can offer users. While the lack of pre-installed Google applications on the device means that users do not share data without their knowledge with the web giant, government monitoring programs such as the recent scandal of the other PRISM Atlantic side are unlikely to be hampered by the smartphone security features.
Despite this, the launch of a dedicated app store should at least provide owners of Blackphone greater choice of applications for the -C.
The Blackphone began to be sold this summer, and has a 4.7 inch screen, an NVIDIA Tegra 4i processor, 1GB of RAM, 16GB of internal storage, and a support LTE and HSPA + networks.