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RE: AnoPhone (A2X) - The Cryptophone with Complete Secure Design
I have seen several attempts at making a secure phone like this. All of them unfortunately failed as a business (or at least didn't do very well) I love to see this type of bold ventures even if they fail.
- Dash integration is great as it has PrivateSend
- No remote admin access/backdoors
- Browse the DARKNET with ease
- Safety from man-in-the-middle
- Good specs
The best part is the price. Solarin had a $16,000 price tag leaving most people who would appreciate it unable to purchase it. AnoPhone is within the price range of many of the phones available today. Let's just hope at least AnoPhone would bring the secure phone niche a good name as an investment opportunity.
Second biggest problem for reasonably priced phones like this is to sell enough to be able to order the next batch at cheap component cost.
Which leads to the biggest problem: marketing prowess. Getting a device to Ars Tecnica [and hopefully not be hacked by them] may be achievable with some perseverance and/or attending the right events. Same with CCC in Germany, and thus Heise and Golem.
That will help convincing companies but how many devices can you subsequently send to NGOs, rights organizations and the like to incite orders until Reuters orders a batch for its correspondents in oppressive nations.
As you said, the sector has a poor biz track record so VC is highly unlikely before any larger sized org places a batch order.
The smarter roadmap may be to hire somebody with solid contacts at say Lenovo in a (semi) oppressive nation and target the “Secure Lenovo” as a merger & acquisition strategy.