A Look AT Solana’s $1000 Crypto Smartphone; Is It Worth It?

Solana Saga: $1000 Crypto Smartphone

Solana Saga is a $1,000 sleek Android crypto smartphone.

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Built by OSOM, a smartphone startup, it comes with 512 gigabytes of memory, 12 gigabytes of RAM, and a Snapdragon 8+ Gen1 processor.

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Unsurprisingly, the Saga was responsive, quick, and it felt seamless to jump between different applications.

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Baked into each and every device is the Seed Vault, what Yakovenko calls a secure way to store seed phrases, or master passwords, to crypto wallets.

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The seed phrase lives outside the phone’s Android operating system, according to Solana Mobile, a subsidiary of Solana Labs.

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The functions of the smartphone may seem confusing, but for those with tens of thousands of dollars in crypto, the security is probably worth it.

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Saga smartphone also has a decentralized application marketplace that the phonemaker is calling a competitor to Apple’s Store and Google Play Store.

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