Boeing Can Into Smartphone?

"Aya, Almost Has A Cosmo With Toyota Engine Owned by a BMW." (aya-yu) 02/27/2014 at 05:24 • Filed to: Phonelopnik? Planelopnik? Why not both?

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Really. They just introduce a millitary spec-ed smartphone called Boeing Black. The hardware and the software on the phone is built from the grounds up for securely storing and transmitting data especially for the US defense and security community.

You get features like disk encryption, hardware root of trust, hardware crpto engine, embedded secure components, trusted platform modules and secure boot to safeguard your data. The phone will even go as far as to delete the data if it detects some is trying to break open the casing of the device.

The design is also modular to some extent, so you can remove the back cover and attach various modules such as extended battery, satellite transceivers, advanced location tracking sensors, etc.

On the specification side, the Boeing Black has a 4.3-inch, qHD display, 1.2GHz dual-core ARM Cortex-A9 CPU, microSD card slot, dual SIM support, Bluetooth v2.1 + EDR, 1590mAh battery and an unspecified version of Android.

No pricing or availability details have been revealed, yet. But i didn't expect these phones going on sale outside millitary either.

JustWaitingForAMate > Aya, Almost Has A Cosmo With Toyota Engine Owned by a BMW. 02/27/2014 at 05:27

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Look, that's all fine and good. But when Mr 4 Star General is dragged into yet another hearing on military abuses, the key question everyone will be asking is, can it play Angry Birds?

Aya, Almost Has A Cosmo With Toyota Engine Owned by a BMW. > JustWaitingForAMate 02/27/2014 at 05:30

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Hell yeah it will.

Alongside flappy doge, i guess.

DancesWithRotors - Driving Insightfully > JustWaitingForAMate 02/27/2014 at 05:35

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Angry Birds and Flappy Doge just need to go through the process of getting a Certificate of Networthiness, and then they'll be approved for limited deployment on a need-to-play basis.

So, the current versions will be approved.... Ten years from now?

Aya, Almost Has A Cosmo With Toyota Engine Owned by a BMW. > DancesWithRotors - Driving Insightfully 02/27/2014 at 05:46

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I'll say it's 8.

Just look at that boeing phone, it's looks like it came from 2006.

Svend > Aya, Almost Has A Cosmo With Toyota Engine Owned by a BMW. 02/27/2014 at 06:06

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Any heads up on battery overheating? Or grounding issues?

I'm no high flyer by any means but I do like a device that doesn't crash on me.

Aya, Almost Has A Cosmo With Toyota Engine Owned by a BMW. > Svend 02/27/2014 at 06:08

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Well, i guess because it's still brand new, the issues haven't come yet.

Svend > Aya, Almost Has A Cosmo With Toyota Engine Owned by a BMW. 02/27/2014 at 06:12

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I was joking in regards to Boeings 787 Dreamliner.

But if this is a military application it will be late into service and subject to cost overruns in its development.

Aya, Almost Has A Cosmo With Toyota Engine Owned by a BMW. > Svend 02/27/2014 at 06:13

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I know :D

yeah, just see the specs, it's still stuck in old dual-core.

jkm7680 > Aya, Almost Has A Cosmo With Toyota Engine Owned by a BMW. 02/27/2014 at 06:14

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Keep the focus on airplanes, or make the phone less generic.

DancesWithRotors - Driving Insightfully > Svend 02/27/2014 at 06:19

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Don't forget about the features being axed for being too expensive, so by the time it's finished, it'll be an 8,000,000,000,000 device that's less powerful than the old Nokia brick phones.

DancesWithRotors - Driving Insightfully > Aya, Almost Has A Cosmo With Toyota Engine Owned by a BMW. 02/27/2014 at 06:21

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My friend, you haven't worked with the government. The paperwork alone takes 8 years, before the actual testing can begin.

Svend > Aya, Almost Has A Cosmo With Toyota Engine Owned by a BMW. 02/27/2014 at 06:23

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Hope it works better than my Blackberry and my Apple.

biturboism, the cult > Aya, Almost Has A Cosmo With Toyota Engine Owned by a BMW. 02/27/2014 at 07:04

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I really dig this phone, and while I'm not likely to use any of the military functions, at least it *may* turn out to be the smartphone equivalent of the Lenovo(IBM) ThinkPad - indestructible and dependable if a little dated in hardware.

DoktorZombie > Aya, Almost Has A Cosmo With Toyota Engine Owned by a BMW. 02/27/2014 at 07:05

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No matter how many times I read the headline, I can't figure out what it means.

KnowsAboutCars > DoktorZombie 02/27/2014 at 07:37

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It's Polandball reference.

DoktorZombie > KnowsAboutCars 02/27/2014 at 07:56

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oh. I don't get THAT either. I'm old. I'm going to back to bed.

puddler > Aya, Almost Has A Cosmo With Toyota Engine Owned by a BMW. 02/27/2014 at 08:16

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it's about time science makes it's way into technology. we should call this scientology...and it needs aliens.

DollaMoneyAve > Svend 02/27/2014 at 08:49

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What show is that? That was funny as hell

Svend > DollaMoneyAve 02/27/2014 at 09:10

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That was a One Ronnie special. It used to be The Two Ronnies several years ago until Ronnie Barker died. Ronnie Corbett came back recently with The One Ronnie show pretty recently and the humour is pretty old style English humour.

There are many clips on Youtube if you look up 'one ronnie' or 'one ronnie bbc'.

DollaMoneyAve > Svend 02/27/2014 at 09:14

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I've realized that now, been watching for the last 20 minutes, good stuff

Aya, Almost Has A Cosmo With Toyota Engine Owned by a BMW. > biturboism, the cult 02/27/2014 at 09:16

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Hmmm

You need a Panasonic phone like these:

or a Nokia 3310.

Aya, Almost Has A Cosmo With Toyota Engine Owned by a BMW. > DancesWithRotors - Driving Insightfully 02/27/2014 at 09:17

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Well, yes.

The closest thing i ever work for goverment is installing a 4G tower for Indonesian Goverment, back in APEC event.

ilostmypants > Svend 02/28/2014 at 04:14

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Zing!