The EB Tough Mobile incorporates a hardware-based security platform, with hi-security features such as tamper-detection and firmware and hardware integrity check. This dedicated hardware is essential for building layered mobile security solutions. The EB Tough Mobile hardware platform enables also integration of customer's own and third party software security solutions. The EB Tough Mobile smartphone is designed and manufactured in a way that the components and software solutions used in the device are available for auditing.

"We are excited to announce the new EB Tough Mobile, which strengthens our strategy to provide smartphones with the latest commercial technologies to customers demanding high mobile security and for the public safety markets. The EB Tough Mobile will be a fully certified product - a building block that can be used as is, but can also be tailored according to customer specific requirements on hardware, software as well as industrial design", says Hannu Huttunen, President, EB's Wireless Business Segment.

The EB Tough Mobile is powered by Qualcomm® Snapdragon™ 801 processor with 2.3GHz quad-core mobile processing, Android 4.4 (KitKat) operating system and 150Mbps LTE-A connectivity. It is enhanced with many advanced features, such as, support for global LTE frequencies, including the US Public Safety band 14, dedicated push-to-talk button (PTT), active noise and echo cancellation, powerful loudspeaker and glove-usable 5" full HD display. Mechanically the EB Tough Mobile has IP67 level water and dust protection and MIL-STD-810G level shock resistance. The EB Tough Mobile is based on the EB Special Device Platform which can be tailored with other connectivity technologies, like for example satellite phone functionality.

EB offers the EB Tough Mobile globally also to system integrators, solution providers and other partners who will sell the phone as part of their total offering to their end-customers. EB provides EB Tough Mobile smartphone a long device lifetime and technical support, as well as various customization options (e.g. Direct Mode) and associated engineering services. The planned product availability is mid-2015. EB is currently arranging live product demonstrations to selected key customers and partners, and welcomes interested companies to contact us for cooperation opportunities.