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by rcamera 4118 days ago
I actually bought one two weeks ago after my 6 years old smartphone died. I still haven't picked it up (shipped it to the US, getting there next week only), but it arrived at my friend's house with no problem. From all I read before making the purchase, it is a good phone, not hacker-proof though, as there is no such thing as a secure computer. But on the other hand, their development team has been extremely fast in patching bugs and pushing fixes.

Also, for those claiming that it is still uses insecure baseband chips and firmwares, the phone comes with Silent Circle suite apps which allows you to make end-to-end encrypted calls and messages, so even if you have a flawed baseband chip, it was built so you could have secure calls and messages through wifi, 3g or 4g, without worrying about the security vulnerabilities of those chips.