The NitroPhone 1 is a phone sold as “The safest Android on the planet“That’s what the brand that markets it ensures. It’s a Google Pixel 4a modified with GrapheneOS, the Android “cooked” that dispenses with all the superfluous software to include only the basics. The NitroPhone 1 is on sale now and is worth almost twice as much as the original Pixel.
Privacy and security in the field of mobile phones is increasingly in question due to constant data leaks and all the information left by service providers, including owners of operating systems. Options to protect privacy as much as possible exist, such as make use of GrapheneOS, the most secure and private Android ROM. That installing a ROM is a hassle? Well, there is the option of purchasing a NitroPhone 1.
NitroPhone 1, the business of reselling a modified mobile
Nitrophone 1. Nitrokey image
Installing a ROM on an Android phone is an option that most devices have, at least as long as they allow their bootloader to be unlocked. Google enables such unlocking, too it is moderately easy to modify a Pixel just by installing a ROM to it. And of all the available ones, GrapheneOS has earned the recognition of being the most secure and private, not in vain it eliminates from the software all the applications that can filter data.
Nitrokey is a German company specialized in security that has different devices aimed at those who want protect your technology from daily use to the maximum. The company sells security keys with which to protect the user’s e-mails from the computer’s hard drives. And recently it has been launched into the business of secure Android marketing your own phone a modified Google Pixel 4a.
The NitroPhone 1 is a Google Pixel 4a that comes modified with GrapheneOS. This software dispenses with Google applications and all Android AOSP apps that are susceptible to data sharing. Consequently, the phone maximizes security and privacy; including protection for the introduction of the PIN, auto-off when the mobile is not used, protected navigation apps and more. It is even possible to order the NitroPhone 1 (Google Pixel 4a) without the microphones., just as Edward Snowden would like.
Selling a price-inflated Google Pixel 4a for installing GrapheneOS on it is relatively common
Buying a modified mobile is never a good idea: apart from the surcharge for something that is not very complicated to do (install a ROM), we will never be totally sure if the mobile was modified only with the aforementioned firmware. In addition, the original warranty of the phone is lost, so we will not be able to claim the manufacturer of the phone, only the person who sold it.
Via | 9to5Google
