[buro9]

Well, this is just a splash page and says very little.

It's in partnerships with http://www.geeksphone.com/ which is FirefoxOS based. But yet the Blackphone splash has an image of a phone with Android buttons.

They claim no hooks to vendors, so if it's Android I can't imagine this is going to carry the Play store.

I'd be interested in knowing how they will secure and make private the core functionality of being a phone and sending email and text, all of which are insecure.

On that, I'd speculate that this is just pre-loaded with Silent Circle apps, and maybe will be announced as having DarkMail and a choice of RedPhone.

But... there's no info at all really, so who knows what this is.

The only problem they really have to solve is the eternal question of: Is it possible to provide real security and privacy whilst providing convenience?

[infinite_snoop]

From the video: "PrivatOS is the Android you are familiar with"

[higherpurpose]

Text- in a similar way TextSecure did it, would be my guess. They have something called Silent Text, and they're using the ideas here I believe:

http://eprint.iacr.org/2014/036.pdf

Email? They've announced the DarkMail protocol last year, and should be coming soon:

http://darkmail.info/

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=IgV_Z6V_llk

[girvo]

Geeksphone actually made Android phones originally.