Wednesday, June 1, 2016

Swedish-Swiss mobile paranoid lovers of luxury – New Technology

A mobile phone is typically optimized to be produced in large batches at low price. With its first mobile phone goes Swiss Sirin Labs in the opposite direction and launches a phone in the same price as a smaller car.

Solarin, as the company’s first model is called, is a smartphone that if you just look quickly at the specifications could be a regular top model from Samsung or Apple. Scrolls continue all the way to the price tag, you understand pretty quickly that it is not a regular mobile phone is all about.

The target group is according to a press release, “international business people” who obviously have to have deep pockets. The price for Solarin start at 9500 pounds before taxes (international business people live course in London, and not pay any taxes). It is little more than the entry-level model of a VW Polo in Sweden.

Those who choose to buy the phone gets a lot that are not Apple or Samsung may offer. Biggest selling point is that the phone will be impossible both to hack and to intercept. Security features are developed in Israel, and according to Sirin labs have the same technology as military intelligence use to keep their communications secret.

The phone is designed in Lund in Swedish Sigma Connectivity and should be assembled by Flextronics in Linköping. Truls Persson has been the project manager for the development of Solarin Sigma Connectivity and describes the work as different from any other phone projects he worked on.

– There have been many challenges of an extremely demanding customer and an extremely demanding market. This customer is not satisfied with anything that is good, it must be amazing. For us it is a particular challenge because we have a background in mobile phone development, and are accustomed to constantly compromise, he said.

For example, he mentions that many of the phone’s mechanical components are handcrafted produced.

– The effort to produce these components and make a phone of them justifies a high price. At the same time it is a phone that will be quite impossible to take control of the security perspective. You can not hack it and you can not intercept it, says Truls Persson.

The production of Solarin counted in thousands telephones per spin, which are low series in the mobile industry (Apple sold, for example, ten million iPhone 6 and 6s on three days when it was launched). The small series has been a challenge in the development according to Truls Persson because it makes it more difficult to produce many prototypes to test on. It has also been a challenge in the project to get the exclusive suppliers of materials to the phone to produce in a way that suits the consumer electronics industry’s requirements.

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