SGP's new blackphone will help keep unprotected consumers phone usage private from hackers attempting to detect and access how consumers use their smartphones.
"We've never made the claim we're offering an NSA-proof device, but we are offering a tool that makes a huge difference to someone who's using no privacy tools at all," Weir-Jones told Tech Crunch.
SGP unveiled the $629 phone Monday at the Mobile World Congress in Barcelona.
The phone will be available on KPN Mobile a Dutch telecommunications company in Belgium, Germany, and the Netherlands along with other European countries after it is sent out in June, and tried out in April Cruxial CIO reported.
"Blackphone offers unprecedented value in a turnkey secure communications platform, and it's easy enough to use that anyone who's used a smartphone before will feel right at home as soon as they turn it on," Toby Weir-Jones, managing director at SGP Technologies' said in a statement Cruxial CIO reported.
"The Snowden disclosures have certainly raised awareness," Weir-Jones told Tech Crunch. "But our plans to make a secure phone have been in the works for longer."
The mobile device has a 2 gigahertz quad-core system with system on a chip capabilities, two gigabytes of DDR3 Random Access Memory, 16 gigabytes of storage, and Bluetooth 4.0, a 4.7 inch high definition LCD panel technology screen with in-plane switching technology.
The blackphone comes with protection programs Silent Circle and Disconnect, cloud storage program Spider Oak, and Kismet a commodity used to gauge Wi-Fi.
Silent Circle, Disconnect, and Spider Oak come with two year subscriptions. Kismet is offered with no limit Tech Crunch reported.
"We're hoping for hundreds of thousands of BlackPhones to be sold," Jaya Baloo, chief information security officer at KPN told Tech Crunch. "[We] believe privacy and security is a basic right. It's not about having nothing to hide; but determining what you want to reveal."
The Mobile World Congress technology conference lasts until Thursday.
