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Wonder if it incorporates a little black box?
I can't see this mobile being a risk to BlackBerry. There are so many issues and contradictions with the device that I can't see it being widely accepted by any government agencies:
* It has a camera. Most government agencies don't allow this. (BES/MDM is used to disable cameras on iOS, BlackBerry and Android)
* Its Android. For all this may mean its highly customisable, you can't have security through obscurity enforcing anyone who buys your phone to sign an NDA. This pretty much means it'll be cracled fairly quickly...plus its Android!
* It has Wi-Fi and Bluetooth...remind me again how this phone is secure?
* It has USB, HDMI and PDMI ports...are they sure this is a secure phone?
* How do they plan on selling the device to anyone if they aren't making it publicly known what the security features are and what the device is capable of?
* If it can't be serviced because it'll wipe everything on the device, what is the recovery procedure for information stored on it?
On the flip side, if it has dedicated syncing software you could have a device you charge with both power and data in the morning and whose contents (and value to the enemy) are lost when the battery runs out. That would be incredibly secure. A little inconvenient if your battery dies, but it could retain its mobile number (e.g. on the SIM card) so when powered up it'd reconnect to the network.
You'd lose your contacts - so no-one would know whose it was or who they'd talked to- and you'd lose some UUID that lets you dial secure numbers.
When whoever found it turned it on it'd register on the network and bring down men in suits to retrieve it (or drones to properly erase it). If the OS was wiped and re-loaded into the RAM during the Sync process every morning you'd have a system that wouldn't exist long enough for most malware to get a proper handhold. Thats secure.
But hey, they're not letting anyone other than customers know what the phone can do so we'll never know! 
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