Chipnuts aim phone at philanderers

CHINESE FIRM, Chipnuts chanced upon the purpose of having mobile phone text messages password protected.

According to its startling research, men don't want their wives to discover proof of a mistress' existence.

But Chinese wives have a habit of trawling through the call records and text message traffic of their other half's mobile phone looking for evidence of any shenanigans.

Smartphone platform provider, Shanghai-based Chipnuts, is flogging phones with password protection on potentially compromising data.

The firm reckons its, "advanced data, message, call record security and recovery features help manage and protect valuable personal information stored on the phone."

This facility forms part of Chipnuts' NX200 series of smartphone platforms, which are based around its own C7200 series multi-core processors.

All you need to build a mobile phone besides an NX200 chip and a GSM/GPRS chip from either NXP or Infineon is Chipnut's own SmartNX Mobile OS.

Our understanding is that shed-loads of handsets using Smartnuts gear have already been shifted in the Chinese market.

Besides disloyal husbands, a mistress-proof handset could prove highly useful to executives who don't want their mobile phones to fall into the handsets of industrial snoops.

It would be interesting to see if the plod would be able to force such handset owners to hand over the relevant password. µ

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