US aircraft manufacturer Boeing has developed a smartphone geared mainly
toward people working in defence and homeland security, the company
said on its website on Wednesday.
Boeing filed papers this week
with the Federal Communications Commission describing the phone, which
is called Boeing Black, uses Google's Android system and is made in the
US.
"The US defence and security communities demand trusted access to data to accomplish their missions", the web site says.
"The
Boeing Black smartphone was designed with security and modularity in
mind to ensure our customers can use the same smartphone across a range
of missions and configurations", it adds without specifying if the phone
is already on sale.
The phone will be earmarked mainly toward
government defence and homeland defence agencies and their
sub-contractors, Boeing said in papers filed with the FCC.
"The
Boeing Black phone is manufactured as a sealed device both with epoxy
around the casing and with screws, the heads of which are covered with
tamper-proof covering to identify attempted disassembly."
"Any
attempt to break open the casing of the device would trigger functions
that would delete the data and software contained within the device and
make the device inoperable", the filing documents read
