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Add to SafariWhen comparing BlackPhone vs GeeksPhone, the Slant community recommends GeeksPhone for most people. In the question“What are the most innovative smartphones of today? ” GeeksPhone is ranked 4th while BlackPhone is ranked 6th. The most important reason people chose GeeksPhone is:
When buying a phone you typically buy into an OS, then only upgrade that OS to a new versions; never switch to a different OS. GeeksPhone was built to help open up the ecosystem, allowing for entry of other OSes without committing users to the investment & risk of getting a new phone with an OS with which they're not yet familiar. To make this possible there are options to "install another OS" or "install zip from external SD" easily accessible from the phone.
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Pros
Pro Privacy focused
BlackPhone is designed to protect you from government snooping and data mining by corporations or malicious attackers in a way that reduces your data footprint as much as possible through a combination of data encryption and system design choices.
Pro Bundled software and services worth $879
BlackPhone includes and impressive array of privacy focused software and services that include:
- A two-year subscription to Silent Circle. Silent Circle allows private voice and video calling, text messaging and file sharing. Additionally it allows you to gift a years subscription to the service to three people.
- A two-year subsciption to Disconnect. Disconnect is a VPN (virtual private network) service that anonymizes your internet traffic and it also anonymizes search of the BlackPhones web browser.
- A two-year subsciption to SpiderOak. SpiderOak offers 5GB worth of cloud storage and sharing.
Pro PrivatOS’ Security Center gives control of what you share
PrivatOS, the Android KitKat fork that's running on BlackPhone, includes Security Center that gives you great control of what information and with who or what should and should not be shared.
Pro It's also a good-enough phone on it's own
Of course BlackPhone is lagging behind the flagship phones of Apple, Samsung or HTC, but not by much. It has a 2GHz quad-core Nvidia Tegra 4i CPU, a 720p display that's somewhat on the lower end. Other than that, it has good specs and a neutral design.
Pro Can switch operating systems easily
When buying a phone you typically buy into an OS, then only upgrade that OS to a new versions; never switch to a different OS. GeeksPhone was built to help open up the ecosystem, allowing for entry of other OSes without committing users to the investment & risk of getting a new phone with an OS with which they're not yet familiar.
To make this possible there are options to "install another OS" or "install zip from external SD" easily accessible from the phone.
Pro Comes with a pre-rooted Android
GeeksPhone comes with a pre-rooted Android operating system that doesn't even includ the default Google apps.
Pro First device to activelly support FireFox OS
FireFox OS, also known as Boot to Gecko or B2G, is a new operating system from Mozilla, that aims at creating an affordable smartphone solution for the emerging market.
To help Mozilla achieve this goal, GeeksPhone offers FireFox OS build as self-contained downloads for flashing the phone.
Cons
Con Privacy is not guaranteed
Con Can't dual boot
Whichever OS you choose to install, it will overwrite the previous one.
