Oh man, I guess we’re heading to have to revisit a former pledge we designed about the initial cellular phone from OSOM, earlier referred to as OV1. I said back in December that if the privateness-targeted OV1 released with the term “crypto” anywhere in the vicinity of it, we’d hardly ever converse about it again. Perfectly, people, it is a crypto phone. God dammit, man.
The OSOM telephone has been discovered nowadays in comprehensive and it is now acknowledged as Solana Saga, a telephone branded by a internet3 firm known as Solana Labs, but most undoubtedly designed by OSOM. OSOM has also verified to me that Saga is indeed OV1.
Solana Saga’s tagline at the moment seems to be, “It’s time for crypto to go mobile” and that it is “a flagship-excellent Android unit function-developed for crypto.” Additionally, the Saga is “tightly built-in with the Solana blockchain building it quick and safe to transact in internet3 and take care of digital assets, such as tokens and NFTs.”
If we consider to shift on from that affiliation, here’s what we know about Solana Saga. The cellphone will expense $1,000 and you can reserve a person now with a $100 entirely refundable deposit (but you will want a Solana crypto wallet to do so). The telephone is expected to ship all around Q1 2023 and will originally launch in US, CA, EU, and United kingdom.
As for specs, it has all of the items, which is almost certainly why we are nevertheless speaking about it. Solana Saga capabilities a Snapdragon 8+ Gen 1 chip, 512GB storage, 12GB RAM, 6.55″ FHD AMOLED exhibit at 120Hz, 4100mAh battery with wireless charging, Bluetooth 5., WiFi 6, rear fingerprint sensor, 16MP selfie shooter, and a dual digital camera. The twin camera is designed up of a 50MP (IMX766, f/1.8) key shooter and a 12MP (IMX373, f/2.2, 120° FOV) ultra-large lens. The dimensions of the phone are 166.2mm x 75.9mm x 7.9mm and it weighs all-around 195g.
Take note: The specs higher than have been grabbed from OSOM’s web page here. Even so, for the duration of a push celebration to unveil the cell phone, Solana showed a slide that stated the system has a 6.67″ exhibit. We’ll attempt to ensure all the specs.
OSOM sent us the following quote on Saga from their CEO, Jason Keats:
“OSOM is unbelievably thrilled to associate with Solana in setting up the Saga. The world desires novel components corporations to guidance the upcoming that is Web3. Setting up out an ecosystem that appears to the future devoid of getting burdened by past legacy ecosystems is massively exciting” suggests Jason Keats, Founder and CEO of OSOM Solutions Inc.
If intrigued in shopping for a person, Solana claims orders “will be prioritized for builders in order to examination the Solana Cellular Stack and Saga.” I’m hoping for all those of us not that interested in the earth of crypto or who aren’t builders that we’ll just be in a position to acquire one particular at some position. In the stop, it sure seems to be like a large-end Android mobile phone with a protected ingredient that would be a superior everyday driver.
I would also issue out that this is the Essential group making this and we know how good they were being at components style and design and software program aid. They created major claims on the digicam for this cellular phone and that they had uncovered a large amount from the failures of that to start with Essential mobile phone. We have been eagerly awaiting the arrival of this gadget, even if it now has a crypto-emphasis. It could nevertheless be really worth exploring simply because of who is constructing it, unless of course Solana functioning the clearly show changes far too considerably.
Ugh.
