Progress
isn't always public knowledge and often the greatest enterprises are undertaken
in secret. One of the most secret is slowly coming to light.
Boeing,
makers of the super secret Boeing Black Android Smartphone have been confirmed to
be in a partnership with Blackberry to use their BES 12 (Business Enterprise
Server) Platform as stated in the article “Blackberry
confirms it's working with Boeing to offer ultra-secure "spy" phone”,
published December 22, 2014 By Trevor Mogg, DigitalTrends.
This
announcement was made by BlackBerry CEO John Chen during a conference call with
financial analysts on Friday December 19th 2014 as per his statement
at the start of this article. Boeing's spokesperson Andy Lee confirmed the same
with Bloomberg, quote: “….pursuing a number of opportunities….to help
[BlackBerry] ensure the BES 12 operating system is compatible with, and
optimized for use by, the ultra-secure mobile devices favored by the defense
and security community.”
For
those of you with very short memories, this is the same Boeing Black smartphone
that they'd been designing since 2012.
This
secretive 4.3” Android smartphome that weighs a hefty 170g finally saw the
light of day in February 2014 when it was revealed in a filing
with the FCC (Federal Communications Commission) as reported in my blog article
entitled “Boeing
Black smartphone – Ambassadors, World Leaders World phone and NSA and CIA Spy
vs Spy smartphone that self-destructs in 5 seconds”.
Boeing and Blackberry
partner for Boeing Black smartphone – Putting Blackberry’s BES 12 for forward
The
Boeing Black smartphone is being targeted at Boeing’s many Clients and anyone
who want to have a super-secure smartphone that erases its operating system and
data if anyone unauthorized attempts to access the smartphone. That of course
means the following people:
1.
Embassies and their Ambassadors
2.
Enterprise and Corporate Clients working
with Boeing
3.
US Government spy agencies e.g. NSA
(National Security Agency) and the CIA (Central Intelligence Agency)
4.
Wealthy Individuals with a need to
protect their business
5.
World Leaders World and their
Administrative staff
This
may be their target market, but if it’s not as good looking as the Apple
iPhone, it might still be a problem to back out a smartphone that's a bit dated
in design. Plus, Blackberry BES 12 can make communication with any smartphone
secure, as evidenced by Blackberry and Samsung making as deal to use BES 12 to
make their smartphones Business Secure as noted in the article “BlackBerry
to make Samsung smartphones more secure”, published Nov 14, 2014, 10.54AM
IST by Reuters in The Times of
India.
In
the case of Apple, they don't need Blackberry BES 12, having teamed up with IBM
(International Business Machines) in a partnership called IBM MobileFirst for iOS to
make secure Cloud based Apps for Business that can work on Apple iOS as
detailed in my blog
article entitled “Microsoft
and IBM for IBM MobileFirst for iOS – How Apple with IBM Cloud Computing
indicates Apple-Microsoft-IBM-Google Deal Possible in the Future”.
So
despite the secrecy and suggestions that this Boeing Black smartphone may have
advanced biometrics as well as Lithium-Ion batteries augmented with Solar Power,
this phone will have to compete. Not necessarily in the consumer market, but
again other smartphones makers who are slowly signing up with Blackberry to use
the BES 12 to break into the Corporate and Enterprise world seeking secure
Business Applications powered by the Cloud in 2015, the Year of the Sheep.
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