If you’ve amassed a fortune in cryptocurrencies, you
probably don’t keep it all (or any of it) on your mobile phone. But a company
called Sikur wants you to reconsider that. The same company that made the
GranitePhone from 2015, if you even remember it.
SIKUR claims the $800 device is ‘unhackable’, which
just seems like challenge to me. Bug
bounty company HackerOne got 2 months to penetrate SIKUR’s security, and
the company “were unable to penetrate our defenses,” said COO Alexandre
Vasconcelos.
On the inside, the SIKURphone is pretty much your
standard MTK6750 device. 4 GB of RAM and 64 GB internal storage, a small 2800
mAh battery, a 13MP rear camera and 5MP front camera, a 5.5-inch display full
HD display, it practically ticks all the boxes. Well, all of them except for
pricing.
SIKUR took Android 7.0 Nougat and pared it down to
the very basics. Simply put, this phone is designed to make calls, send
messages, snap some pics, and browse the internet, all encrypted. Any other
apps will be blocked from the device, or come in heavily-modified versions
direct from SIKUR themselves.
On account of the heightened security features and
bucketload of extras like the built in cloud and bitcoin wallet, the company is
charging $800 for the device. That’s a shockingly high amount, though it makes
sense for such a niche product. No average consumer would care enough to get
something like this at this price.
Only 20,000 units will be available for presale
beginning February 27th at a “promotional price” of US$ 799. The company expects
to deliver them in August of this year.