Privacy-focused devices accompanied by updated Android-based PrivatOS operating system: ‘No software, no hooks to carriers, and no leaky data ...’

Encryption and privacy firm Silent Circle has unveiled a successor to its Blackphone security-focused smartphone, as well as the first Blackphone-branded tablet.

The Blackphone 2 handset and Blackphone+ tablet will both go on sale later in 2015, running the company’s new PrivatOS Android-based operating system and its suite of communications apps and services.

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