Samsung is developing an Android smartphone just for soldiers

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  • Saturday, 26 Oct 2019

German soldiers, here operating for the NATO Enhanced Forward Presence, will soon be supplied with a special military version of Android developed by Samsung. — dpa

Soldiers in the German Armed Forces will soon have another weapon in their arsenals: smartphones.

The South Korean tech giant Samsung is developing a special version of the smartphone operating system, Android, with German IT consulting company Blackned.

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