Thomas Fox-Brewster, who’s written about the app store for Forbes magazine, says that the app store will be open to all Android devices, so you won’t need a Blackphone to play. Those three apps are already native on the Blackphone. Likely inclusions are Disconnect Secure Wireless, SpiderOak Blackphone Edition, and Kismet Smart Wi-Fi Manager, among others. The app store will likely include the suite of “Silent” apps mentioned above that Silent Circle is keen to promote. But the store will also feature third-party, supposedly spy-proof apps. The company recently disclosed, in its blog, that it will be launching an app store sometime in January 2015. However, things are about to ramp-up, it appears. Other Blackphone-published apps include a firewall. Silent Contacts encrypts and password-protects the address book, and Silent World is a VoIP calling plan for calling less privacy-obsessed people on regular numbers. Silent Text encrypts text messages and includes “burn” functionality, where messages can be destroyed. Silent phone, is a secure VoIP app that operates over 3G, 4G or Wi-Fi networks. In addition, a suite of apps, pre-loaded on the phone but also available standalone for commonly available Android and iOS devices, provides secure calling functions. This is unlike how Android ordinarily functions, where the whole phone acts as the sum of its parts. Those containers are structured in such a way so that they can hold apps securely-one app in one container can’t communicate with another app in a different container. The operating system, PrivatOS, predominantly lets you control app permissions and remote wipe the device.Īn upcoming revision, due soon, will create secure containers on the device, called Silent Space. Silent Circle’s Android-based smartphone ($629 in the Blackphone store) uses a modified version of Android called PrivatOS and a suite of apps for secure calls, video chats, texts, file transfers and contact storage.
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