Silent Circle's privacy-oriented Blackphone 2 is now available

Half a year after it was originally introduced at the Mobile World Congress in Barcelona, Silent Circle's Blackphone 2 is now available for purchase

The 5.5-inch Android-based device is focused on privacy and security, delivering a pre-installed suite of apps that lets you make private, encrypted calls, send texts, precisely control what the phone's apps can and cannot access and keep fully separate profiles with different levels of security

While a few things changed since the phone's launch — for example, its Android-based OS is now called Silent OS instead of PrivatOS, and the company has a new President and CEO, Bill Conner — it is the device we were promised in March, with an octa-core processor, 3GB of RAM, 32GB of storage and a 13-megapixel camera Read more...