Obama To Ditch Sectera Edge for BlackBerry?

President Obama has been carrying two smartphones: a BlackBerry 8830 that he uses for personal calls, and a General Dynamics Sectera Edge that he uses for secret government business.

Until now.

Those two devices will soon become one, once Obama's BlackBerry gets a SecurVoice software package from Genesis Key, according to The Washington Times. Obama will then be able to use his BlackBerry for "Top Secret" communicationsGeneral Dynamics told us back in January that standard government-issue BlackBerries can be used for "sensitive, but unclassified" calls, a few notches short of Top Secret.v

According to Genesis Key, SecurVoice uses Type 1 encryption algorithms, the same NSA-developed spy-movie stuff used by the Sectera Edge.

The Times story says that right now, the General Dynamics Corp.-made Sectera must be plugged into the presidential BlackBerry, which makes no sense. They also say BlackBerry makers Research in Motion are based in Toronto, which they aren't. But we'll let that pass. There's no reason that the rest of the story couldn't be true.