Solana's Mobile Platform and its Smartphone Saga

Solana Labs has built a mobile software platform SMS and its falg ship phone the Saga.

The mobile platform is Solana Mobile Stack (SMS) software kit that provides tools for developing native Android apps, wallets, games, and has a dapp store.
And The andoroid Solana flag ship smartphone Saga will be released early 2023.
Solana team has been working on SMS push for 5 months and hardware has been under development for a bit longer.

OSOM Products Inc

The previously launched OSOM OV1 phone that was developed originally at a startup Essential that will be rebranded as the Solana Saga.

• Qualcom Snapdragon 8+Gen processor
• 6.67'' OLED
• 12GB RAM
• 512GM Internal Storage
• Very neat and simplified premium minimalism design
• Price: Around $1,000
  Clearly the Solana phone Saga will be users's secure hardware wallet.

Why Solana Makes Smartphone

Mobile is becoming more important more more as we get into web3 as most of people globally alreay use smarphones evetyday for every purposes.
But with recent mobile phone's infrastructure, it may not be easy general users approach to web3 or blockchain benefits not having enough knowledge, skills or supporing infra.
Solana may help smartphone manufacturers and designers with their knowledge and skills while this flag ship smart phone Saga provides users and develpers the complete experience with top-tier specs. The Saga is not secondary device, it's a high quality full function smarphone having all conventional features.

This would be a new challenge. Thoruhg this challenge, Solana and many crypto/ blockchain sectors may learn many things on accessibility for public, combination with traditional technology layers, coworking with top mobile tech companies, security tech etc.

Source: decrypt