Solana bets on cell, launches US$1,000 ‘Saga’ Web3 cellphone

Solana on Thursday launched a Internet 3.0 cellphone dubbed “Saga” in a transfer to faucet into the burgeoning variety of cell phone customers accessing digital property.

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• The Android cell phone by Solana Cell, a unit of Solana Labs, is “tightly built-in” with the Solana blockchain to make it simple and safe to transact in Internet 3.0 and handle digital property, comparable to tokens and NFTs, the corporate stated in a press launch.
• The agency additionally launched the Solana Cell Stack, a framework for Android that might enable builders to create cell experiences for wallets and apps on the blockchain and create a “Safe Component” for personal key administration.
• The Solana Cell Stack SDK was made out there to builders on Wednesday with the Saga cellphone out there for pre-orders for supply in early 2023.
• Saga is designed and made by OSOM, an Android improvement firm with expertise constructing computing {hardware} for Google, Apple, and Intel, amongst others, a press launch stated.
• “The world wants novel {hardware} to embrace the long run that’s web3, and constructing out an ecosystem that appears to the long run with out being burdened by previous legacy ecosystems is vastly thrilling for us,” stated Jason Keats, cofounder and CEO of OSOM.
• On the firm’s estimated worth of US$1,000, the Saga cellphone will likely be competing with flagship fashions by Apple, Samsung and different cell phone firms with a powerful ecosystem of software program builders that may develop various Internet 3.0 purposes which are blockchain-agnostic.   

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