Blackberry SecuTablet (Photo : business.financialpost.com)
BlackBerry is back on track. The launching of a mega secured tablet for business and government use is already unveiled. Four years after the BlackBerry PlayBook consumer-oriented tablet, the company launched the latest highly secured tablet that is aimed for the use of government agencies and businessmen.
Dusseldorf-based Secusmart GmbH, a BlackBerry sudsidiary, has unveiled and presented the SecuTablet which was developed jointly by Samsung Electronics Co. Ltd., and International Business Machines Corp. at a tech conference in Hannover, Germany over the weekend, Financial Post reported.
According to Secusmart CEO Hans-Christoph Quelle, security is BlackBerry's trademark and the SecuTablet has that feature which included data and voice encryption.
"Security is ingrained in every part of BlackBerry's portfolio, which includes voice and data encryption solutions," explained Quelle in a press release. "This same technology is what secures the new SecuTABLET."
BlackBerry launched PlayBook as it ventures in tablet but as the company's previous boss Thorstein Heins stated that tablet will be irrelevant soon thus the discontinuation of the PlayBook. However, reports said that BlackBerry will launch its consumer-oriented version of the tablet called PlayBook 2 as their re-entry to the tablet market.
The mentioned tablet will have an initial price of $2380 a piece and will be out this coming summer. It is based primarily on Samsung's Galaxy Tab10.5 and will be providing a more secure mobile access to sensitive data such as financial information and budget which is often used by the government and businessmen, according to Russian Herald.
Kiyomi Rutledge, BlackBerry's spokesperson disclosed that the latest tablet will have the Secusmart's technology just the same as in their smartphones.
No reports have been told if the SecuTablet PlayBook 2 will be readily available in Canada this summer.
