VNC has unveiled their VNCphone, which the company states is a combination of mobile phone, operating system and pre-installed applications for secure mobile communication and collaboration.
With VNCphone, VNC believes it now enables professional mobile working without spying and illegal data eavesdropping – from the hardware, operating systems and platforms to the application modules at the application level.
Currently, the market is still dominated by vendors and solutions that are questionable from a security perspective, as sensitive data is transmitted to anonymous recipients in an unsolicited and non-transparent manner each time it is used.
As such, VNC has created its own integrated system, which it claims extends end-to-end from the device hardware to the independence from proprietary clouds on the platform level, the VNClagoon OS as a Google-free Android operating system and optional VPN to the pre-installed VNClagoon applications.
The hardware basis of this solution is the Volla Phone, manufactured in Germany and among other things, VNC claims it is dual-boot capable, so that the user can choose between VNClagoon OS, Ubuntu Touch, a Linux-based operating system, or a normal Google Android.
As such, VNS insists it is a good fit for COPE scenarios (Corporate Owned – Personally Enabled), where devices provided by the company can also be used privately.
The modular software stack VNClagoon is already preinstalled on the VNCphone and applications like VNCtalk, VNCmail, VNCproject or VNCtask can be activated via subscription on the VNC website and can be used immediately for mobile collaboration.
“With VNCphone, there is finally a completely secure package for professional mobile communication and collaboration,” says Andrea Wörrlein, managing director of VNC in Berlin and member of the board of VNC AG in Zug. “It is ideally suited for use in security-relevant environments such as in public and government institutions, in critical infrastructures or in companies that are sensitive to security issues.”
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