Sirin Labs , the company working on what they claimed was the
world’s first blockchain phone, has just unveiled that very same
phone named Finney. Featuring a cold storage wallet, a special
operating system and an additional secret screen called the Safe
Screen, the phone is claimed to “bridge the gap between mass
adoptions of blockchain technology.”
The phone runs Sirin OS, a special operating system developed by
the company that is based on the Android operating system and is
tweaked to be “ultra-secure.” The Cybersecurity Suite within
the phone features a behavioral based Intrusion Prevention System,
a physical security switch and three-factor authentication:
biometric, lock pattern, and behavioral. How this will function in
reality is currently anybody’s guess, but it certainly sounds
promising.
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Other, less specific features of the phone include:
A 12 MPX main camera
An 8 MPX wide-angle selfie camera
A 6-inch screen (18:9)
128 GB of internal storage
6 GB RAM
The smartphone is named after Hal Finney, the second ever user of
Bitcoin (after Satoshi Nakamoto ).
According to the roadmap on the Sirin Labs website, the phone is
set to launch this month. However, the announcement gives no
indication when this might be. The phone will cost USD 999 and be
available in brick-and-mortar stores, the first of which is under
construction in London. Other locations include Turkey, Israel,
Germany, Kazakhstan, Vietnam, South Korea, Japan, and the US.
There is currently no information on the availability of stores in
South America, Africa and Australia - however, there seem to be no
geographical restrictions on ordering the phone online.
Preorders also get a discount of 10%, and the phone is sold for
SRN tokens. The price of SRN currently stands at around USD 0.18
- an increase of 38.69% in the past 24 hours. The token is ERC20,
meaning that purchasing and storing it is easily done with
Ethereum and in Ethereum wallets.
SRN price chart:
However, it remains unclear whether the phone will really be the
first blockchain phone, given that HTC released Exodus 1 , the early
access version of their blockchain phone, which is expected to be
shipped by December. Also, in October, Pundi X , a developer of
crypto payments solutions, has demonstrated a blockchain-powered
smartphone called the XPhone . Now, the race to be the first
blockchain phone on the market begins.
world’s first blockchain phone, has just unveiled that very same
phone named Finney. Featuring a cold storage wallet, a special
operating system and an additional secret screen called the Safe
Screen, the phone is claimed to “bridge the gap between mass
adoptions of blockchain technology.”
The phone runs Sirin OS, a special operating system developed by
the company that is based on the Android operating system and is
tweaked to be “ultra-secure.” The Cybersecurity Suite within
the phone features a behavioral based Intrusion Prevention System,
a physical security switch and three-factor authentication:
biometric, lock pattern, and behavioral. How this will function in
reality is currently anybody’s guess, but it certainly sounds
promising.
Oops!
The embed code for this video is not valid.
Other, less specific features of the phone include:
A 12 MPX main camera
An 8 MPX wide-angle selfie camera
A 6-inch screen (18:9)
128 GB of internal storage
6 GB RAM
The smartphone is named after Hal Finney, the second ever user of
Bitcoin (after Satoshi Nakamoto ).
According to the roadmap on the Sirin Labs website, the phone is
set to launch this month. However, the announcement gives no
indication when this might be. The phone will cost USD 999 and be
available in brick-and-mortar stores, the first of which is under
construction in London. Other locations include Turkey, Israel,
Germany, Kazakhstan, Vietnam, South Korea, Japan, and the US.
There is currently no information on the availability of stores in
South America, Africa and Australia - however, there seem to be no
geographical restrictions on ordering the phone online.
Preorders also get a discount of 10%, and the phone is sold for
SRN tokens. The price of SRN currently stands at around USD 0.18
- an increase of 38.69% in the past 24 hours. The token is ERC20,
meaning that purchasing and storing it is easily done with
Ethereum and in Ethereum wallets.
SRN price chart:
However, it remains unclear whether the phone will really be the
first blockchain phone, given that HTC released Exodus 1 , the early
access version of their blockchain phone, which is expected to be
shipped by December. Also, in October, Pundi X , a developer of
crypto payments solutions, has demonstrated a blockchain-powered
smartphone called the XPhone . Now, the race to be the first
blockchain phone on the market begins.
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