Ask yourself, what else is missing your smartphone? It is believed that the answer to this question is in combining the technical capabilities of mobile phones with innovative blockchain developments. That will ensure the privacy of users and open access to a world free of states and banks. Your personal data, finances and applications will belong only to you. And no Google, Apple or Roskomnadzor can restrict this freedom.
Something like this should be the smartphone of the future, and already this winter, the first new generation devices from two manufacturers will appear on the market. What they will be, let's understand together.
Sirin labs
The blockchain smartphone from Sirin Labs is called FINNEY and will be worth 999 $. This price has an explanation, namely, football star Lionel Messi, attracted for advertising, who explicitly requested more than one million dollars as a fee.
I must say that the developer company Sirin Labs is a startup that at the end of 2017 of the year successfully completed ICO and collected 157 million. For the money, they are going to launch a blockchain smartphone on the Snapdragon 845 processor, with 6 GB of RAM and 128 GB of internal memory. The smartphone will receive 2 cameras with a resolution of 12 and 8 MP, a six-inch display with a protective glass Gorilla Glass and a battery with a capacity of 3280 mA · h. You can expand the memory of the device with an SD card up to 2 TB.
Everything looks very interesting, but it’s not at all what interests the users of blockchain smartphones. For them, a cold storage wallet that supports several popular cryptocurrencies will be embedded in the mobile device. However, it is not yet known what exactly. And earlier, besides the multicurrency crypto wallet, they promised to encrypt messages, use smart contracts and other features. Whether we see them in the release remains a mystery.
Learn more about FINNEY cryptosmartphone we will be able to learn 28 November 2018 of the year during the official presentation, which will be conducted by Lionel Messi himself. And the start of sales is scheduled for December 15 and, it seems, the blockchain smartphone from Sirin Labs already has an 25 tych. pre-orders.
HTC Exodus
Another blockchain smart phone will be released this fall by the well-known mobile device maker HTC. Their cryptosmartphone is called Exodus and costs 1000 $ too.
HTC offers a smartphone with a multi-currency crypto wallet supporting BTC, LTC and ETH, as well as the network Lightning Network. In addition, the device will have the cryptocats game pre-installed and the ability to run other decentralized applications. It looks much cooler than competitors from Sirin Labs, but there is no normal information yet about the technical capabilities of the phone itself.
HTC Exodus has its own star, but not football, but cryptocurrency. In the summer, Liteco creator Charlie Lee joined the project as an adviser. But so far it is not noticeable that he was conducting an active PR campaign of the blockchain-smartphone from HTC, it remains only to hope that Charlie really helps in solving technical issues.
The main problem of Exodus is that HTC is now in a difficult financial situation and their cryptosmartphone may be a regular attempt to cut money through the HYIP on the blockchain.
Conclusions
As a result, we have two blockchain smartphones. The first one is developing a blockchain start-up, which must understand cryptocurrency technology, but for some reason focuses on the technical characteristics inherent in ordinary smartphones. The second device is made by a company that can make mobile phones, but on the contrary, they prefer blockchain and cryptocurrency.
And, most likely, in both cases we will get just a smartphone with a multicurrency cryptocell. What, in fact, can be done today from any phone by installing the appropriate application on it, and notice, completely free of charge.
Perhaps we are mistaken and blockchain smartphones will be a real revolution in technology. We will even be happy for this and will definitely write an article about the new generation of mobile devices. But while for such a development of events - there are no prerequisites.