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this is hyman we met up with pocketnow.com Tony behind the camera we're here at MWC 2014 and one of the biggest questions that a lot of you asked as a couple of weeks ago was what is blackphone exactly what is the purpose behind the black phone and I'm going to try to answer that right now so the black phone on its own is an Android 4.4 smartphone with a specific private OS that will bring you different encryption services but this is actually a joint venture this phone is made by geek phone which is a Spanish company but it's partnered with a company from the United States called silent circle that those of you in enterprise must know and this is actually a Swiss joint Verte venture now I sadly can't turn on the phone because it's currently on pre-production software but the phone is on sale today for $629 and here's a deal why would you buy a black phone well silent circle services will cost you $1500 on their own if you wanted to bar them on a separate phone than if you bought them on a black phone for 629 dollars so you get encrypted messaging encrypted operating system and you have additional layers that you cannot confirm to get from any other phones so just to clarify these $1500 from silent circle is actually the whole suite of different services like two-way conferencing and other services that are included again links are going to be in the description for details but if you want to ask your question why black phone and not blackberry well honestly the BlackBerry operating system is something that a lot of people are already questioning because of all the issues and the outages that have happened and obviously the fact that blackberry is an operating system is not really as popular and we have Android 4.4 here with an additional layer so there is a benefit for you to have a black phone you're not stuck to an operating system that is not really giving you the services that you're looking for in this day and age so yeah salad circus services are multi platform meaning even people from iOS can download these from the App Store but again if you want to get exactly what the black phone provides and we will provide you links in the description for full details on what you're getting you really have to pay almost three times the amount that you would have to pay to buy this phone so there is a purpose if you are security mind that if you want guarantees that your text messages are secure that your operating system and secure that your phone is pretty much non hackable silent circle services are actually state-of-the-art and it's been verified for quite a long time so it depends on you it really depends on your service is one of the coolest things about buying this phone is after you pay the six hundred twenty nine dollars you actually get three accounts from silent circle so you can encrypt this phone which will cost you that and then you can have your family members to people within your family that will have the benefits of silent circle and they don't necessarily have to have a black phone to communicate with you securely so I got a does depend on you we will have more information for you when we get this phone for review the next couple of weeks I am I'm going to be bed up with Barca now calm Tony behind the camera is it worth to buy a black phone and after all the NSA things I'll tell you something it really is and for the price tag for the amount that'll cost you buy any other phone you don't have any guarantees there and they're guaranteeing this here so let's see what we get when we get the review unit to