Sirin Finney, the smartphone to stash your Bitcoin on a cold storage wallet
With millions of crypto holders over the world there's no doubt that such currencies or assets are becoming more popular with every year. While a lot of the crypto enthusiasts hold their crypto assets on exchanges or any other kind of wallets some that concern more about their coins security desire a more mobile, but safe way to keep their Bitcoin tight.
The safest ways for now to store your cryptocurrencies is a cold storage wallet and that is the main idea around this post. There's a Swiss company, called Sirin Labs that developed and launched a smartphone that has such a cold storage wallet.
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Sirin Finney is the name of a brand new smartphone coming from the Swiss startup company and it is designed and build around the blockchain technology. It is not their first smartphone that mainly targeted the safety of the users data, but it might be their most successful one as the blockchain technology and cryptocurrencies are becoming more and more popular.
At the first glance it might look like your regular android smartphone having a 6" screen and an 18:9 aspect ratio, powered by a Snapdragon 845 processor and 6 GB of RAM with a storage capacity of 128 GB. It also has a front facing camera of 8 megapixels and a rear one shooting at 12 megapixels, but these are just details for the blockchain minded person.
As an operating system it comes out of the box with android 8.1 Oreo masked by the Sirin OS firmware and has a battery of 3,000 mah to get you through the day. Being a security oriented device is one of the first to embed a fingerprint sensor into the screen that allows you to unlock it with just a touch.
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Its main feature that could attract cryptocurrency enthusiasts is the cold storage wallet completely isolated from the rest of the operating system, malware and various hacking attempts. Thus making it the perfect gadget to mix the use of a smartphone and a safe way to stash and transact your crypto assets.
Sirin Labs is not the company to actually manufacture their new Sirin Finney smartphone. They handed this task to Foxconn, the assembling Chinese giant that is responsible for the quality iphones assembling process also. The price for such a device is $999, but you can get it with a $100 discount if you pre-order it and pay for it with SRN coins, which is Sirin Labs own cryptocurrency.