Japanese phone that prevents nudity from taking on its users

Since smartphones have become a norm in everyday life, it is customary to take pictures of everything that comes to mind. Many people portray themselves, their meals, their pets, and everything else intensively and repeatedly. Amidst this huge pictorial crowding, it was inevitable that nude photos would become widespread.

Whether it is between affiliated and distant loved ones, or married couples who live in distant relationships due to the travel of one of them, or even people who want to interest their partners more, there is no doubt that exchanging nude sexual images is very common today, especially among young people and adolescents.

When this type of nude photo exchange is between adults and they agree to share their photos, of course it doesn't have any problem. But when it comes to teenagers and young adults, it becomes completely different, especially if they are being used by adults who trick or blackmail them in some way.

In an attempt to reduce the exploitation of teenagers and young people under the age of legal, it seems that the Japanese company Tone has found a possible solution by making the phone Tone e20 that prevents taking pictures or nude video completely, and once you take a picture or video that contains nudity, the phone deletes it in a way Automatic and direct.

How does the phone blocking noodles work?

According to Tone, the phone uses Artificial Intelligence to automatically detect nude photos, thereby deleting them directly and never allowing the user to take them. And even the company claims that the phone is able to connect with other phones and prevent it from taking nude photos as well.

It is not clear what the phone's position is about nude photos being downloaded from the internet or received via messaging applications, but it is likely that it will not delete them because its purported primary goal is to protect children and teenagers from exploitation and not from porn itself.

Apart from the alleged primary feature of the phone, it actually has very low specifications. It comes with a 6.2-inch LCD screen with HD + resolution (low relative to large screen size), Mediatek Helio P22 processor with 4GB RAM and 64GB internal storage space.

The phone has a triple lens rear camera, with a resolution of 13MP, 12MP, 2MP, respectively, and a single front camera with an accuracy of 8MP, but there is no information about the size of the sensors or the aperture size or whether any of the cameras are able to approximate, for example.

At a price equivalent to approximately $ 180 (19,800 Japanese yen), the phone belongs to the lowest and cheapest category of smartphones today. But if we look at it far from its basic feature, it is not a really good phone for its price, but most phones that cost a similar price offer better specifications than it.

Can the phone really detect nude photos?
The most likely (but not assertive) answer is no. As the idea of ​​a phone designed to not depict nude photos seems very strange and suffers from several basic gaps that need to be clarified, at least, and questioned in many cases.
What is the definition of nudity by phone?
Here comes the main problem that social media platforms suffer from, for example, what is the definition of nudity really? Is there a clear dividing line between a nude picture that is considered "noodles" and another that contains slightly less nudity and is considered safe?

The main problem here is that the phone is designed to prevent the exploitation of adolescents in the first place, and this means that nudity in the traditional sense is not the only one intended, but that there are many types of images that include partial nudity and certain positions that make them not really count naked, but that does not reduce their exploitation For minors and usable by delinquents.

Even today the algorithms of the world's largest sites still suffer with really nudity discrimination, and even sites such as Facebook or YouTube do not have perfect solutions even with all their technical advances and great processing capabilities. So for a smartphone with a processor that is completely worse and the task of finding nude and generally inappropriate images, it seems difficult at least, if not entirely excluded.

What about messaging apps, social media platforms, and even camera software?
As it is clear, the phone controls the photos and videos that are captured exclusively with the basic camera application of the phone, and here it becomes important to know the way the phone will deal with hundreds if not thousands of applications that usually reach the camera and allow photography from within the application directly without using the camera application The primary.

The possible possibilities for dealing with the matter here are the interception of every photo or video that the camera is used for by any application, and this will add a noticeable delay in work and ignore the phone slower than its usual condition, which will be slow thanks to its poor processing. Or maybe the phone will prevent any unofficial app from accessing the camera originally.

In fact, it is possible to apply the idea of ​​preventing applications from using the camera very effectively without a doubt, as the only and exclusive option for photography becomes the only official application. However, this may add troublesome restrictions that reduce the attractiveness of the idea of ​​this phone originally.

As a result of the company not providing any details on how the phone deals with third-party applications, the matter will remain a confusing question and at least a current point of suspicion.

The problem that phone designers probably didn't think about

Assuming that the phone is designed to be truly sold and it works in a manner identical to the advertisement, and not just a marketing trick to increase the company's popularity and marketing of its products later, there is in fact a major problem when making a phone like this with an advantage such as it prevents taking nude photos.

According to the company, the expected use of the phone is for parents to provide it to their sons and daughters if they are worried that they may be exploited in some way. But the problem is that any teenager anywhere in the world will not be really happy with a phone like this regardless of whether he took nude photos or not, so introducing the phone originally seems like a great insult and skepticism. Help bring them close to the family or make them wary of pranksters and exploiters.

In fact, even if we assume that a teenager has not prohibited the use of the phone or did not realize what its alleged significant advantage is, the phone is distinguishable enough to make anyone who uses it vulnerable to surprising or even sarcastic looks everywhere it moves. The idea of ​​carrying a phone that prevents naked photos from being taken has many automatic assumptions that will definitely not make a phone like this popular at all.

In fact, it is likely that the phone manufacturer did not have any intention of the phone being a real product originally, but rather it looks like an (actually successful) attempt to market via shock, as people who are surprised at the existence of such a phone will pass on its experience, directly or indirectly The name “Tone” will become associated with smartphones, and something like this may lead to some sales since the company does not have any reputation or previous knowledge in its field.