I love President Obama , don’t care about his policies or politics but do know he’s one tech savy guy , fighitng for his right to keep a Black Berry among presidents like Bill Clinton who only sent two emails during his tenure and Mr Bush still beating aorund the bush saying he’ll get bck to email after getting off office and hadn’t sent one during his 8 years and Mr Obama said “ “I’m still clinging to my BlackBerry,” and “ They’re going to pry it out of my hands” ( source CNET )
I even wrote a poem for him “ An Ode to Obama”
For his right Mr Obama also planed to go to the court to keep his Blackberry .
Now his efforts have paid back and the NSA has approved him the Mother of all Phones a “ General Dynamics C4 Systems Sectera Edge 
Specification
Weighing only 12 oz ( grams ) and 1.3 inch thick , 3.2 inch wide and 4.9 inch high , the phone has 2.8 inch 64K color LCD .
Removable Lithium –Ion battery with only 35hrs standby time and 3 hours of regular talk time and 2 hours of Secured Talk time ( Sorry Putin no long calls to you )
Capable to work in extreme temperatures ranging –23 C to 60 C and storage of –55 C to 75 Celsius ( Where are they planning to use it )
The Phone even have classified memory of 64mb Flash and 64mb RAM and unclassified memory of 128mb Flash and 64mb RAM , with micro SD Expansion upto 2 GB
supports 2.5mm headset , capable of Interchangeable GSM 850/900/1800/1900/EDGE , UMTS / HSPDA and CDMA 800/ 1900 1xRTT & EV-DO Rev A and Wifi 802.11 b/g
Interoperability
U.S Type 1 and Homeland Security ( Suite B)NATO , CCEB , Coalition , Australia , New Zealand , Canada , UK , SCIP and HAIPE ( including TACLANE ) Frequencies
That’s a lot for a phone to offer
On the Software side the phone has
Secure and Unsecure of everything including Phone , Emails , Personal Organizer , IE supporting classified and unclassified web pages , Wordpad Editor even supporting classified docs , secure and non-secure instant messaging and of course WM Player and a Calculator
in short it’s a beefed up Win Mobile Phone
It’s developed for Developed for National Security Agency’s Secure Mobile Environment Portable Electronic Device (SME PED) program, the Sectéra Edge is certified to protect wireless voice communications classified Top Secret and below as well as access e-mail and websites classified Secret and below. The Sectéra Edge is the only SME PED that switches between an integrated classified and unclassified PDA with a single key press. - Just like my E71 Personal and Business Switch 
So How much it costs
Well the phone starts from $ 2650 for a US National EDGE without Wireless model to USD 3350 for a SPRINT EDGE Wireless Capable with 2 Year Warranty ( Why President needs a Warranty ??? )
One year warranty costs USD 3150 ,
Want a SPRINT Wirless Module or a Verizon Wireless Module or a GSM or a Wifi module in Spare , add another 700 bucks
As the President’s are elected for 4 yrs , add another 400 bucks for Two Year Warranty extension
Accessories sold separately including
- Data Cable for $ 75 ,
- Classified USB cable for classified PC USD 90 ,
- Adapter for USB mouse USD 60 ,
- Spare Battery USD 96 ,
- Extended battery USD 180 ,
- Travel Charger USD 120 ,
- Desktop Charger USD 300 ,
- Vehicle Charger USD 120 ,
- Handfree wired ear bud , USD 36 and
- stereo headset at USD 60 .
Additional Software Required
- Apriva Sensa Email Client USD 260 ,
- Apriva Sensa Server HArdware USD 11940
- and trainng upto USD 14,300
That’s a lot of bucks for the President’s phone which is no way as sleek as the Blackberry Obama used to carry although he’s still allowed to use it for personal use . But Win Mobile , what they are thinking , hope it’s Win Mo 6 Pro version not the old 2003 SE .
The phone is not only available to US Service but other governments can also purchase it for their use
May I have one for review please ??
Farhan
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