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I've been using Silent Circle's black phone 2 for almost a year now, and it is a rather terrible experience. They are ahead on app-specific permission denials,

by cordite 10y ago

I've been using Silent Circle's black phone 2 for almost a year now, and it is a rather terrible experience. They are ahead on app-specific permission denials, but they have hardly any sense of decent QA for their SilentOS. Previous updates had power regressions where the phone would be dead from a full charge within 8 hours. Took 3 months for them to fix that. Most recent update no longer has a functioning headphone jack, and will forget all bluetooth paired devices on reboot. It also is crashing after 15 minutes of map usage as it seems to overheat. Perhaps they may do better in the future, but I won't be staying with their product and services for much longer. That said, it seems like the explicit update-system they run for their own software and the operating system would lessen the likelihood of an on-demand compromise from a state agent to an individual's device. Though it's not like the individual can do anything besides trust that the signed packages are authentic.

btreecat 10y ago
>It also is crashing after 15 minutes of map usage as it seems to overheat. So it might be worth checking in "Developer options" if "Force GPU Rendering" is checked. If it is, try un-checking it and seeing if it keeps your phone a little cooler.
- cordite 10y ago
  It appears to be off by default.
  - btreecat 10y ago
    Dag. I know one of the few issues I have with my LG G4 was it getting hot when it was set to force GPU rendering. Hopefully an update should take care of it.
fredgrott 10y ago
its tricky to do what they do with the limits they have on resources..they had tried to get me on board in 2010 as android dev..but I bailed after determining that they would just not come close to the resources to actually pull it off with a level high quality needed....mobile OSes are harder to fork than desktop OSes
- StavrosK 10y ago
  That's weird, the company was founded in late 2011 and the Blackphone only started being developed in 2013 or so.
secfirstmd 10y ago
I'm excited by prospect of The Guardian Project and Copperhead collaboration. https://copperhead.co/android/ https://copperhead.co/android/
chrsstrm 10y ago
>will forget all bluetooth paired devices on reboot OT but asking because I'm genuinely curious, if your goal is to have a "secure phone," why would you be pairing it to peripherals via Bluetooth? Or maybe am I misunderstanding "secure" in this case? The marketing speak on the the Blackphone 2 site seems more about "privacy" than security.
- cordite 10y ago
  A smart watch for notifications. Having voice reply is useful.

by cordite 10y ago

btreecat 10y ago

>It also is crashing after 15 minutes of map usage as it seems to overheat. So it might be worth checking in "Developer options" if "Force GPU Rendering" is checked. If it is, try un-checking it and seeing if it keeps your phone a little cooler.

cordite 10y ago
It appears to be off by default.
- btreecat 10y ago
  Dag. I know one of the few issues I have with my LG G4 was it getting hot when it was set to force GPU rendering. Hopefully an update should take care of it.

fredgrott 10y ago

its tricky to do what they do with the limits they have on resources..they had tried to get me on board in 2010 as android dev..but I bailed after determining that they would just not come close to the resources to actually pull it off with a level high quality needed....mobile OSes are harder to fork than desktop OSes

StavrosK 10y ago
That's weird, the company was founded in late 2011 and the Blackphone only started being developed in 2013 or so.

secfirstmd 10y ago

I'm excited by prospect of The Guardian Project and Copperhead collaboration. https://copperhead.co/android/ https://copperhead.co/android/

chrsstrm 10y ago

>will forget all bluetooth paired devices on reboot OT but asking because I'm genuinely curious, if your goal is to have a "secure phone," why would you be pairing it to peripherals via Bluetooth? Or maybe am I misunderstanding "secure" in this case? The marketing speak on the the Blackphone 2 site seems more about "privacy" than security.

cordite 10y ago
A smart watch for notifications. Having voice reply is useful.