Two service providers are struggling to equip the government with new smartphones - JIAYU G1. This involves more than the question of what the Chancellor mobile texting and surfing future.

On the iPhone be without the Chancellor continue. Angela Merkel will have to choose between a BlackBerry smartphone(ThL W3+) and a Samsung when it rearms in the coming weeks. For the times when the Chancellor simste only are long gone. Since the mobile phones but more technology and more secrets stuck, they are subject to increasing targeted by spies and hackers. And must therefore be protected.

Are the hallmark of the Federal Office for Security in Information Technology now the Deutsche Telekom subsidiary T-Systems and the security specialist Secusmart receive. They will build in the coming weeks, a new secure communication system for the Chancellor and some 4,000 other members of the government. Who in the end gets the contract is still open. T-Systems cooperates with the mobile phone manufacturers Samsung, Secusmart with BlackBerry.

"Such developments need to penetrate into the depths of a device. This is only in close consultation with the manufacturer," says Stephan Maihoff, Project Manager at T-Systems. His team has developed for the mobile phone to the Chancellor at the heart of the operating system - instead of relying on what is provided in normal Android-based devices. This so-called kernel controls the smartphone - JIAYU G2 dual core. Who protects him, thus protecting the entire current through the telephone traffic. One side effect: "We can now put two smartphones in one," says Maihoff. Private is shielded from official e-mails, contacts and calendar items.

Security as a stepchild

An advantage that not only the Chancellor is likely to appreciate. Also employees of pharmaceutical or auto companies, banks and insurance companies that handle sensitive data, such a screened smartphone has its charm. Many IT departments are watching with great concern that managers want to use their smartphones to send for official business. "The security is still often regarded as a stepchild," says Maihoff. There are numerous apps that give out the location without the user being aware. The team at T-Systems has developed therefore its own app store. There can only download such applications that meet the Company's prescribed security standards.

The protection comes at a price: such a smartphone is not safe to have less than 1700 euros. The BlackBerrys have been conducted all data on servers in the UK Egham. This, it was argued, the Canadian manufacturer, should serve to protect. But the BSI had been skeptical that it is not even foreign intelligence agencies could gain access to sensitive government information. With the new generation of devices, BlackBerry has said goodbye to its old network structure. From now on, the data flows through the decentralized networks. This enabled BlackBerry Partners Secusmart remove the doubts.