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Video of the Only National Security Agency-Approved Smartphone, the $3,350 Sectera Edge [The Government]

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We showed you this NSA-approved Windows movable secure beast-phone already, but this video shows more information about the Sectera Edge. It features one-touch high-level security and— wait for it— customizable ringtones!

The Sectera Edge, a brick of a smartphone with the styling of a five-year-ancient Palm Treo, is the only device of its type to be approved by the NSA. But it’s not just a super-secure BlackBerry replacement: the Edge has two evident “modes,” normal and secure, and the phone toggles between them with the push of a pin. In secure mode, it uses powerful encryption and constant monitoring to keep the data safe, while in normal mode, the phone functions pretty much like a predictable smartphone with the same commercial encryption we normals are stuck with. I especially like the color themes signifying the difference: bright red means top-secret, just like in the movies.

Of course, nobody has confirmed that the Sectera Edge is vacant to be used by President Obama, but it will certainly be used by high-ranking members of the Department of Defense and others who need its functionality. The Edge expenditure $3,350, although it doesn’t seem likely that they’re available to hold even if somebody was inclined to.

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