GranitePhone is a security-obsessed phone by Sikur/Archos

George, 10 October, 2015

After a seven-month period following its MWC announcement, the GranitePhone is now available for purchase. The phone, conceived by IT security specialists from Sikur, and made by Archos, can now be ordered from its dedicated website for the hefty sum of $849.

The hardware you get for that is not unlike the existing Archos 50 Diamond. There's the 5-inch FullHD display, Snapdragon 615 chipset paired with 2GB of RAM and 16GB of built-in storage. The camera combo is the same 16MP/8MP affair, and even battery capacity is identical at 2,700mAh.

Sikur GranitePhone

The big change is the OS, where instead of Android 4.4.4 KitKat, you get Sikur's home-brewed Granite OS. The company promises "multiple levels of protection" including encrypted cloud storage, encrypted calls, encrypted messages, encrypted everything. The phone has been chosen by government and defense agencies, Archos informs us, as well as privacy-concerned individuals.

Source

Archos

Reader comments

Sin
12 Dec 2023
cTI

Most questionable OS overall i just get the feel it might be a scammer agency

AnonD-452826
12 Oct 2015
j4x

So negative with not knowing the facts shows today's insanity and trying either shoot down a product or rip it apart without knowledge. Or is it you didn't think of it first? The Internet is a sewer and highway of Hackers... So no Internet and an ...

Anonymous
12 Oct 2015
3aK

I'm never normally one to moan about OEMs copying designs from each other (usually because the 'copying' isn't as drastic as people make out) but that front design language is a complete LG rip-off.