These days, privacy is no longer a simple matter and people, especially in “hot” areas can no longer simply presume their comings and goings aren’t being monitored. While there are things like VPNs to keep Web traffic safe and private, the same cannot be said about smartphones. Chinese manufacturer Gionee believes that the market is ready, and in fact hungry, for a truly safe, secure, and private smartphone. That’s the promise it is making with the new Gionee M6 and Gionee M6 Plus, dubbing it the safest smartphone in the world.
A lot of smartphones these days employ various security and privacy features, from fingerprint sensors like Apple’s Touch ID, to secure “silos”, like Samsung’s KNOX. The Gionee M6 and M6 Plus takes all those and stretches them far and wide, presenting users with a variety of features to keep hackers and eavesdroppers away. For one, it is very proud of its hardware encryption which, of course, beats software-based encryption. That said, a few high end smartphones do implement that as well. Gionee, however, also explains that each chip is bound to each phone’s CPU, so transplanting the chip to another phone, even another M6 or M6 Plus, won’t help to break its encryption.
Gionee also provides what it dubs as Privacy Vault 2.0, which lets users hide important private information behind a password or a fingerprint, using that same hardware encryption to keep data safe even after the smartphone has been stolen. Users can also put a password on apps so that others can’t open them at all. The Gionee M6, however, goes the extra mile by even including a feature to encrypt voice calls, called Private Line Calling. It’s a point-to-point, again hardware-based, encryption system that would sound like gibberish to those trying to eavesdrop on your conversation. Read More….
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