SMS007 – secure SMS communications

I had a note recently from Jiri Satanek, co-founder of Circletech to tell me about their newest service: SMS007.  You may well have read about various secure SMS services — this one looks very much as though it’s in a completely different league!   It’s been available to Czech users for about 5 months and is now hitting the international market (with Nokia Softwaremarket supervising international distribution).

As you might imagine, everything sent between your phone and the recipient is military-grade encrypted.  However the SMS007 java applet also secures its address book — so if you lose your phone, no one’s going to get access to the address book. 

I quite enjoyed the SMS007 comic-book story here which does a cool job of explaining what the service does.   I myself am not on Nokia so I haven’t managed to try it.  However you can check out the details and buy (EUR 35) here: Nokia Softwaremarket. 

UPDATE: In talking with Jiri, I found I was wrong to say that SMS007 only works with Nokia phones.  You get the best performance with Nokia, however it’ll also run perfectly fine on Motorolas (although there’s a slight issue with the Motorola java implementation that prevents SMS007 from making audible new message alerts).