Now, a green smartphone with 'surveillance-proof' feature

New Delhi: A Russian firm has unveiled a green smartphone which can keep 'eavesdroppers' at bay, a media report said on Sunday.

The InfoWatch Group, Russia's leading antivirus software development company, launched the 'TaigaPhone' at a business forum in Moscow on Friday.

The manufacturer said the phone, which costs around $260 and has a five-inch touchscreen, is eco-friendly.

The firm also claims TaigaPhone can protect users' confidentiality, track the device's location and even prevent information leakage.

"Half of all data loss in Russia happens on mobile devices, we intend to fix that problem with the TaigaPhone," AFP quoted company representative Grigoriy Vasilyev as saying at the investors' forum.

The phone is priced almost five times cheaper than the cost of an iPhone in Russia, the report said.

"We have created it for the corporate market," said Natalya Kaspersky, InfoWatch Group president and co-founder of Kaspersky Lab.

The Kaspersky Lab has been at the centre of a row in the US as some believe it may have links with Russian intelligence agencies.

The US government has removed Kaspersky from its list of approved vendors even though no concrete has come out against it.