Some of you are likely familiar with Erik Prince, Navy SEAL and founder of Blackwater. One of his latest ventures is the Unplugged Phone (or UP Phone) which is being marketed as the ultimate privacy-focused smartphone, engineered by top cybersecurity experts. As a cybersecurity expert in his own right, our CIO Adam Callen decided to purchase one of these and give you his honest first thoughts. This is part one, as we hope to expand upon this review further once Adam uses it to replace his other devices and sees how it holds up.

You can learn more about the phone at https://unplugged.com/

** Part Two of our review is now up here:    • Unplugged Phone by Erik Prince review...  

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00:00 Intro
00:16 Introducing the Unplugged Phone
01:01 Unboxing and hardware impressions
05:17 Setting up the device
09:39 Logging in to UP Store and UpVPN
12:51 Connection speed test, with and without VPN
14:51 Trying the UP Messenger
17:37 Browsing the phone
20:26 Booting the phone using the kill switch
21:35 Camera test
22:33 Testing the UP Phone for a week
23:07 Refusing to become a commodity
24:42 Epilogue

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