Android for Work adds the Blackphone 2 to roster, plus U.S. major wireless carriers

BY Evan Selleck

Published 30 Jul 2015

Silent Circle Blackphone 2

Android for Work launched in early 2015 as a way for individuals to use their personal devices as their work phones, too.

The idea behind Android for Work is a simple one: Keep any work related applications completely separate from any personal apps that may be installed on a handset. This goes for profiles, too, with Android for Work allowing users to create a work profile, which keeps all of the data used therein separate from the user’s personal profile on the same handset.

As such, it’s not a big surprise that a phone that’s focused primarily on security and encryption, Silent Circle’s Blackphone 2, has recently been added to the roster of devices supported by Android for Work. Now that the Blackphone 2 is supported, any owners will be able to get work apps loaded by IT managers at their job easily enough, making sure that information is segregated from the rest of the personal information on the device.

The Blackphone 2 is scheduled to launch in September of this year, and features a 5.5-inch 1080p HD display, with a Qualcomm Snapdragon 615 octa-core processor under the hood with 3GB of RAM. It features a 13MP camera on the back, with a 5-megapixel front-facing camera on the other side. It’s running Android under proprietary Silent OS. It has 32GB of built-in storage with a microSD card slot for expandable storage if necessary. The battery is measured in at 3060mAh, and Silent Circle says the device will cost $629 when it launches later this year.

Android for Work is also expanding its list of supporters, which now includes the big wireless carriers in the United States. AT&T, Verizon Wireless, Sprint and T-Mobile now officially support Android for Work.

[via Google for Work Blog; Silent Circle]