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Finnish startup Centinel Mobiles is working on a new Android smartphone that
focuses on privacy and promises reduced exposure to radiation. The phone, which
is currently in development, will sport a sliding privacy switch with three
positions to offer owners a fully configurable way to reduce or cut connectivity
and functionality. The device will also monitor exposure to radiation in real
time and reject congested or poor signals that use more power and potentially
increase radio frequency exposure.

“Centinel takes cell phone privacy seriously,” co-founder Pasi Ala-Mieto told
Digital Trends. “And we want to ensure user well-being by reducing radiation
levels. Centinel aims to be the most responsible supplier of cell phones.”

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The idea with the privacy switch is that people could slide it on when needed.
They can configure precisely what each switch position does, so they may, for
example, switch it to position one before going into a meeting to turn off the
microphone and camera, or slide to position two to cut GPS, Bluetooth, and Wi-Fi
in a public area. The idea is that the switch would work on a hardware level,
separate from the Android operating system, so that Android has no access to the
switch to control it, making it impossible to hack. People can dictate precisely
what the switch cuts in each position.


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The issue of privacy has spawned a few niche phones and devices in recent years,
such as Sirin Labs’ Solarin, Dark Matter’s Katim, and Silent Circle’s
Blackphone, but none of them have really caught on. While there’s a niche market
for government officials and corporate executives with legitimate spying
concerns, the general public haven’t shown a great deal of interest. Centinel
hopes to change that with an affordable device that offers more than just
privacy.

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“Cell phone radiation has been a concern for two decades now, and continues to
be an even bigger preoccupation as cell phones are having an increasingly
serious role in our everyday life, and being used from a very young age,”
Ala-Mieto said.

Some people are certainly worried about the potentially negative impact of cell
phone radiation. A recent report published by the German Federal Office for
Radiation Protection revealed which smartphones emit the most and least
radiation by measuring each device’s specific absorption rate, or SAR. This
refers to the radiofrequency waves that smartphones emit and that may be
absorbed by our bodies. Ala-Mieto has been working at Cellraid for the last few
years, a company that focuses on monitoring cell phone radiation with an app
that measures SAR output among other things.


 * 1. Janne Knuutinen
 * 2. Pasi Ala-Mieto

There’s still a great deal of debate about whether cell phone radiation is
dangerous. It was classified as “possibly carcinogenic to humans” by the World
Health Organization’s International Agency for Research on Cancer in 2011, but
coffee is in the same category. The rise of 5G has also sparked radiofrequency
exposure concerns, but there’s still a lot of argument on the topic.

Centinel plans to use Cellraid’s Quanta Algorithm to monitor exposure to
radiation levels in real time and to act to reduce them when they hit a certain
level. It’s also adopting an antenna design that will focus on connecting to
strong signals and rejecting congested or poor signals because it’s poor signals
that cause the phone to boost power, causing more radiation and draining your
battery faster in the process.

Centinel Mobiles was founded by Janne Knuutinen who worked in R&D at Nokia for
several years, which is also where Ala-Mieto began his career. The company is
still developing the new phone and aiming for a “late 2019 or early 2020”
release. The Centinel phone is expected to cost around 600 euros (around $670).
We’ll keep you posted on its development. In the meantime, learn how to improve
your Android privacy.

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