In all fairness, Obama's use of a smartphone was unprecedented. I read (but cannot find a reasonable source now) that Obama's Blackberry was tethered to a private base station,
not any kind of public network, cellular or otherwise. So "secure smartphone" is a term that really means "secure infrastructure".
That infrastructure simply isn't scaleable.
[Edit: See this HN comment for sources. https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=11306380]