A $4,000 SPY PHONE

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Are you in the market for a new phone and have large amounts of disposable income? You might want to look into this new device by XOR coming to the market in the first quarter of 2021. It is called Xor Titanium. It is a luxury “dumb” phone, that will cost you a low price of just under $4,000.

XOR is a successor to Vertu, a Britain-based company handmaking luxury phones, that was forced to close down due to high prices of it’s phones and the growing market of smartphones. According to Hutch Hutchison, the co-founder and head of design, the company learned from the mistakes of its predecessor, namely trying to compete with the big names in the smartphone industry like Samsung or Apple. Hutchison says that Titanium is “something that aspires to be in that select group of objects that feel personal, say something about you and that you treasure.” That it is a “little wingman,” and will “look after you.”

So for that price tag the phone must have some of the most amazing hardware, right? Well… not really. As it is an old fashion cell phone it is technologically very simple. It has no touch screen, no app store and no time wasting games. What it does feature however is a 256-bit AES encryption. It provides end-to-end encryption of calls and messages, even over the  highly insecure GSM network. But the encryption only works when messaging or calling other XOR devices. It also features a battery said to last 5 days and an air-quality sensor, that checks the air quality every hour and notifies you if anything is wrong. What the sensor detects is not known as Hutchison himself is not sure, but he did mention air pollutants and strange chemicals. The phone itself is also quite good looking, made with high quality titanium and wrapped in leather.

With a high price tag, security features and the ability to wipe the phone remotely using a secure code, the device seems to be targeted at a very specific market including people like spies, high class criminals and other shady individuals. For a normal person this phone is likely going to be a pass as most of sane individuals expect a device of that price to be more akin to a small, portable personal computer and not an expensive WhatsApp machine.

 

sources:

https://www.forbes.com/sites/barrycollins/2020/11/28/rich-mans-whatsapp-the-4000-xor-phone-encrypts-calls-and-texts/?sh=1eb1b9192325

https://timesofindia.indiatimes.com/gadgets-news/vertus-successor-xor-to-launch-first-phone-in-2021-report/articleshow/79176513.cms

https://www.gsmarena.com/xor_is_the_spiritual_successor_of_vertu_launching_its_first_phone_in_q1_2021-news-46215.php

 

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