Meet the crazy secure luxury £10k Solarin smartphone
If the smartphone had been around in the 80s, Patrick Bateman and Gordon Gekko would have been showing off a Solarin.
Forget Apple. When you make a smartphone with no constraint on price and mass market production, you get the Solarin – a 10k super luxury smartphone from stealth startup Sirin Labs, designed to keep the secrets of the rich under wraps.
The device boasts titanium, black diamond, a 2k gorilla glass screen it claims is better than a 4k TV, and a 23 megapixel camera.
The device’s screen is “better than a 4K television” (Source: Sirin Labs)
But it’s the “military grade” security which warrants a starting price of £9,500.
“If you have a lot of money you put it in a bank. The most important asset now is information,” said founder Moshe Hogeg at the launch of the device, which he believes to be the “best and most secure phone ever made”.
That security includes specially built protection from cyber security firms Zimperium and KoolSpan, including a single button that claims to completely shield the device (not quite like Apple, then). It also offers a 24hr cyber crime concierge.
Launched in London – the home of the super rich – Sirin Labs believes people are willing to pay to keep their secrets, well, secret.