Maybe if they sell enough of these phones the price will come down some. But for now I guess I'll be sticking with my trac fone

From a hardware perspective, the Blackphone is nothing to write home about, especially when you consider the $629 price tag. What you're really paying for, however, is a security-driven OS, complete with apps and one-year subscriptions to services that promise the same level of data privacy. And in that respect, the Blackphone is simply incomparable to anything else out there.

http://www.engadget.com/2014/10/03/blackphone-review/