Blackphone details incoming features for PrivatOS and a new privacy-focused app store

Privacy and security-focused device maker Blackphone has today detailed a number of updates due to land for its PrivatOS early next year.

Central to the changes is the concept of ‘Spaces’ – secure, self-contained areas of the device for apps, data and accounts. This allows each user to create whichever Spaces they need, such as split ‘work’ and ‘personal’ spaces, or a kid-friendly area for when the little one wants to play with your phone. A ‘Silent Space’ is included by default and and includes the company’s ‘Silent Suite’ of encrypted communications apps.

Alongside the introduction of ‘Spaces’, Blackphone also announced that a new privacy-focused app store would roll out with PrivatOS 1.1 update in January next year.

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First launched in February 2014, the Blackphone BP1 is still available for sale via the company’s website, starting from $629.

➤ Blackphone’s New PrivatOS Enhances Users’ Privacy While Granting Access To Apps [Press release]