Blackphone 2 Review

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Review of Blackphone 2 powered by the Slant community.

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Pros

Pro
Anonymized and encrypted communication

Blackphone is bundled with privacy services for anonymizing and encrypting communications.

Pro
Runs a custom privacy focused build of Android

Blackphone has developed a fork of Android called PrivatOS with a focus on security and privacy. It closes all build in backdoors, and adds additional privacy features like anonymous search, privacy-enabled bundled apps, and better app permission control.

Cons

Con
Price

562.80 EU or 722.82 USD is the running cost for the device.

Con
OS is not open source

Blackphone has announced plans to make their PrivatOS fork of Android open source in the future, but until then, 3rd parties cannot audit the OS to confirm their security claims.