lsanderson | Samsung Armors Android to Take On BlackBerry

By BRIAN X. CHEN and IAN AUSTEN
Published: February 27, 2013

BARCELONA, Spain — Samsung Electronics, which continues to vex Apple, now has another target: the BlackBerry.
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Samsung’s Knox software is a version of Google’s Android with added security features.

Samsung’s smartphones have been best sellers all over the world, but the company has been, until recently, marketing them to consumers, not businesses.

But over the last year, Samsung, the South Korean manufacturer, has been quietly beefing up the Google Android software that runs on its smartphones to give businesses a phone with more security. Moar