Solana’s Crypto and Web3 Smartphone ‘Saga’ Available to Public May 8 – Bitcoin News

by Arthur · April 14, 2023

Solana's Crypto and Web3 Smartphone 'Saga' Available to the Public May 8th

Solana’s cryptocurrency and Web3 smartphone, Saga, will be available for purchase on Monday, May 8, 2023. Created by OSOM, the Android smartphone is designed specifically for Web3 applications and enables users to safeguard crypto assets using Seed Vault – function.

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Solana Smartphone Saga Ready for the masses

Solana Labs, Inc., the company behind Solana’s blockchain ecosystem, announced that the Saga smartphone will be available for purchase on May 8, with pre-orders shipping on April 20. tired by Solana Mobile’s Twitter account, the team aims to “modernize how people interact with their digital assets for greater ease of use and increased security.” The smartphone comes with several pre-installed decentralized applications (dapps) and runs on the Android 13 operating system.

Solana's Crypto and Web3 Smartphone 'Saga' Available to the Public May 8th

The phone includes a seed vault for safe storage of crypto assets and offers 512 GB of storage space. Its 6.67-inch OLED display is paired with a fingerprint scanner for added security. The device charges with a USB-C cable and has a 50MP and 12MP ultra-wide dual camera system. The seed vault ensures protection of private keys through secure hardware and AES encryption, write the device’s specifications.

Powered by the “Solana Mobile Stack”, the $1,000 Web3 smartphone also features a Solana Dapp Store that currently hosts 16 dapps covering NFTs, DAOs, staking and more. Solana’s Saga isn’t the first crypto-centric phone; past examples include HTC’s Exodus, the Samsung Galaxy S10’s crypto-integrated native apps, and Siren Labs’ $999 Finney blockchain smartphone.

Although both the Exodus and Finney concepts failed to gain traction, Samsung still offers the Samsung Blockchain Keystore SDK for Android systems. Cupertino-based privacy-first technology company OSOM created the Solana Saga phone. Founded by former Essential employee Jason Keats, OSOM recently closed a Series A funding round in partnership with Solana Mobile, raising $25 million on September 9, 2022, according to Pitchbook data.

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