I am interested in ordering the new Solana Phone, I was wondering if I can pre-order from [this website.
Or is this only available in North America?
Does anyone already own the older Solana phone on OzBargain? How is your experience with it? Is it useful or just mainly for receiving airdrop tokens? This video talks about it:
https://youtu.be/jL36gvvPQeM?si=43ZS1IKjrzX870c7
I thought it might be good as a separate device for crypto.
Yeah my reasonably newish 5G phone with VOLTE got banned by Telstra for no reason. No issues with Optus/Vodafone but you know it's only a matter of time.
Yeah, daughters RedMi 12 got blocked on the Telstra network and it was a phone bought from JB HiFi, who, ironically, are a Telstra reseller…
Hows ur experience with Vodafone network. ? voda prepaid, regularly keep getting cant send messages and make calls
probably can get it on aliexpress
This phone is just Android running Solana's existing software with an extra button to access your vault (which just uses the existing SDK they built on Android). And it's mediocre hardware built by an unknown vendor introducing who knows what technical issues with that button that will lose support in the future.
Buying this phone is dumber than buying meme crypto itself.
I mean to be fair, if you buy this at worst you have a phone that can call and use internet Etc. It has some practical value.
If you buy crypto you have literally nothing of any value.
But I do agree, it's just a dumb cash grab for people who buy into this crap.
The predecessor to the Solana phone was actually the Osom OV1(theverge.com) phone, which was backed / partnered by Solana. MKBHD(youtube.com) reviewed the device and basically told everyone not to buy it.
After releasing just 1 device, the company (OSOM products) that made the device (who used to make the Essential Phone) ran out of money and then shut down(techcrunch.com), partly because the CEO used business funds to pay for personal trips and exotic cars and also partly because the phone was just really average for it's price tag, as an Android phone.
And as for this device.. there's no spec sheet, no information on what chipset it runs and not a single mention of whether it supports the major 4G / 5G signals being used in Au, so you'd have to be … enthusiastic about crypto to consider buying a AU$791 mystery-spec phone which might not end up being usable as a phone if it gets network blocked.
I wouldn’t order any phone from overseas until the government get their blocking shit in order… also 8g RAM and 128gb storage? Seems a bit… low end.