Samsung phone running Android version is approved for safe use U.S. Department of Defense.
This Agreement will be the beginning of a process in which various types of mobile phones will be used by U.S. troops.
Approval for other Android devices including phones and other tablet Apple is expected to take place this May.
Approval of the use of phones Samsung is an initial strategy that would make the soldiers using various types of devices, both smartphones and tablets when they are on duty, according to the U.S. Department of Defense spokesman Lt. Col. Damien Pickart.
With this approval means that the soldiers can use the device to fit their needs.
The U.S. DoD has approximately 600,000 smart phone users, said Pickart, around 470,000 of them use a Blackberry.
The rest is divided between that use Google's Android and Apple in a series of experiments to assess whether the device can be used safely.
Security system
According to a report on Federal News Radio, approval to use another phone device is part of the U.S. Department of Defense plans to double the use of mobile devices by armed soldiers in 2014.
They will build a security system for all of these devices and connect to the app store. Commercial offer for the complete device is also being studied.
Prior to this approval, the Blackberry is a handheld device that dominates in the U.S. military since before the device was the only one that could meet the stringent security requirements of the Department of Defense into.
Samsung is one of the approval this time, because it managed to work hard to create a safe version of the Android operating system, named Knox.
Other devices running Apple's iOS 6 operating system including other Android phones currently undergoing examination of Agency Information Systems Security, and is expected to be approved later this month.
Samsung wins approval in time, smart phone and tablet Blackberry Playbook 10 also declared safe for use in the U.S. military networks.
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