Priv BlackBerry smartphone is seen as the last hope TIP HACKLE
on the mobile market. Sales of devices with excellent after the
Technically BlackBerry OS I was in the last quarter
only 800 thousand. pieces, one third of what a year
earlier, less than the Apple happens to sell in one
day. Did not help in the tradition of the Classic model, or
also innovative in the form of a Passport. The first model, in which
Canadian company decided to use the Android, will be able to
save the company from having to leave the mobile market?
Google’s hardware system is still the world on kilotons.
Stand out here is not easy – unless the BlackBerry will be able to show
something really unusual. The physical keyboard may not
suffice.
Last week we revealed the first hardware information
Priv. BlackBerry has launched a website
Internet for all those fans who would like
the first to hear when the new smartphone will go on sale. And so,
officially awarded to stunning on both sides
curved display 5.4 “, providing long life
Battery 3410 mAh, both touch and physical keyboard.
certified by Schneider-Kreuznach camera and unusual
sound quality . Before
You could be heard on the use of the processor sześciordzeniowego
Snapdragon 808 with 3 GB of RAM.
Apart from the slide-out keyboard,
there is not anything that they could not be found in the offer
other manufacturers of Android. The strength of the BlackBerry Priv has
however be what so far in the world of Android nobody
he could properly provide – privacy and security.
Now, the company began to stoke interest in subsequent dosing
Information about the software they get along with Priv.
Even Android can be sealed
First of all BlackBerry plans to seal the borders
Linux kernel capabilities of Android. Probably never going to be
as safe and as light as a QNX kernel used in the BlackBerry OS ie,
But thanks to the Grsecurity patches,
including bringing intelligent access control or protection
by exploits that use memory corruption is to be
incomparably safer than what we get in the ordinary
Android (some components are used in the Grsecurity
Cyanogenmodzie but in any mobile device has not yet
used them all).
Instead of the traditional mechanism to unlock the device, Priv
It is to bring familiar with BlackBerry OS 10.2.1 Picture password. We get here a picture of
grid of randomly distributed digits. To unlock the device,
We drag the grid so that the selected number appeared on selected
previously part of the picture. This ingenious and convenient way to protect
It has the possibility to play with graphic unlock pattern
greasy marks on the screen, prevent, in practice, the suspicion
code by peering from behind his shoulder and is completely resistant to
Machinery, force attempts to break.
In the BlackBerry Priv we also expect original system
Control of safety-relevant device resources, probably
more refined and transparent than what we offer today
Google Android 6.0, and a program DTEK, which clearly shows,
which applications have access to which data measures the current
device security state, and even advice on how to pick it up.
At this sealed Android work are in addition to
google’owego also software copyright BlackBerry applications.
These will include BBM Meetings, private teleconference
and text messaging, SecuSUITE to private conversations
telephone and WatchDox for personal file sharing.
keys, signatures, and ciphers
But what if Priv fall into the hands of unauthorized persons? Business
It ensures that even then we should not be afraid of our
private data. By using a process called Hardware Root of
Trust, gain control over the device or extraction from it
Information to be impossible. Set in an isolated space
CPU mechanism to verify the signature cyfowy firmware, firmware
verifies the signature of the operating system, the operating system verifies
cryptographic hash of the underlying file system and file system
verifies the abbreviations of all loaded applications. Used
in this process, public-key cryptography based on the curves
elliptical and hash function SHA-256. It goes without saying that
the file system itself is encrypted by default, meeting under the
in relation to the requirements of US federal government (FIPS 140-2).
Even if it had, however, somewhere in the fortress smartphones
found a gap, BlackBerry promises something, does not offer
no other vendor devices with Android. Above the watch Privé
It will be a team of experts to respond to threats
before they will be used against users before
yet their patches prepare Google.
So far-reaching security did not offer even the famous
Blackphone, and a new BlackBerry smartphone yet it is from him
technically more advanced product. There remains, of course,
One question – how much will it all cost? Prices officially
not disclosed, but the Chinese service Leakfly talking about 3999 the renminbi,
ie. approx. 2360 zł. As for the equipment, did not seem to amount
exaggerated, especially as compared to the other “flagowców” of
Android. If your BlackBerry is well play out, offer to Priv
appropriate management tools for users
corporate, it has a good chance again to create favorite mobile
businessman, this time with the world’s largest library
Android software. You may even decide to him, the new director of the CIA?
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