Announced at the MWC 2015 earlier this year, the security and privacy focused smartphone – Sikur Granitephone is now officially available, it can be purchased via a dedicated website for a steep price tag of around $849. After November 15th, the price for the device could go as high as $999.
The Sikur Granitephone is a joint product by French OEM, Archos which actually manufactured the product and IT Security Specialists, Sikur.
Commenting on the launch of the Granitephone, Loïc POIRIER CEO of ARCHOS said;
“ARCHOS, through its subsidiary Logic Instrument is pleased to have been selected as industrial and development partner for this project as the demand for secured mobile solutions is increasing”.
Echoing a similar sentiment, Frederico D’Avila, CEO of Sikur said;
“With GranitePhone, you can create a corporate digital environment, secure for the exchange of strategic information, without compromising productivity and speed offered by mobile devices”.
The device has the same specs as the Archos 50 Diamond but instead of Android 4.4.2 Kitkat OS, it boots Sikur’s customised OS – Granite OS which assures “multiple levels of protection” which includes – encrypted cloud storage, encrypted dashboard, encrypted calls, encrypted messages, encrypted chat and encrypted everything but is user-friendly.
Moving to the key specs, the device sports a 5-inch IPS display with a resolution of 1920 x 1080 (Full HD), powered by an octa-core Qualcomm Snapdragon 615 MSM8936 processor clocked at 1.5GHz paired with Adreno 405 GPU, 2GB of RAM and 16GB space of internal storage. The rest of the specs includes – a rear facing 16MP camera with LED flash, front facing 8MP camera for selfies, 4G LTE (LTE Cat.4) and 2700mAh battery.
Asides the Granitephone, there are other phones focused on privacy and security including the Blackphone 2 which doesn’t runs a customised version of Android called Silent OS.
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Source: GraphitePhone
