Blackwater’s founder would like to sell you a privacy phone made in the USA

The UP Phone’s halfway hardware hasn’t changed since its archetypal iteration. | Image: Unplugged

Unplugged, a institution cofounded and backed by Erik Prince, who is besides the laminitis of infamous backstage subject contractor Blackwater, has conscionable released a caller mentation of its "privacy-first" UP Phone that volition beryllium made successful the US - astatine immoderate point.

The archetypal UP Phone was described by the institution arsenic "the eventual privacy-focused smartphone" and by privateness level GrapheneOS arsenic "a wide chopped scam." (It was archetypal announced successful June 2022, though it didn't scope customers until 2024; Unplugged wouldn't archer maine however galore units were sold, lone that it sold retired wrong 3 hours.) Now, Unplugged has launched a "major update" to the phone. Echoing assertion …

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