, I guess I shouldn’t be surprised. Today, the company unveils a brand new device, but I don’t think it’s the device you want it to be. It’s the HTC Exodus 1s, and its the company’s new affordable blockchain phone.
Blockchain, cryptocurrency–I’ll admit, I’m no expert. But I do know HTC launched the Exodus 1 previously, which was a phone you could only buy with Bitcoin at least for a while. The Exodus 1s, on the other hand, is a different kind of handset. It’s much more affordable, coming in at just €219 . The first Exodus phone sold for 0.15 Bitcoin, which meant you had to pay about the same kind of price as the iPhone/Galaxy flagship of the day, but for what was essentially a modified HTC U12+.
The thing that makes the Exodus 1s unique is obviously the whole cryptocurrency aspect of the handset. From what I understand, it can act as a full Bitcoin node, so it can verify and perform transactions on-device instead of relying on a separate service. Android Police says that to do that, however, you’d want a pretty big microSD card because the Bitcoin ledger is currently about 260GB in size–and that number will only keep growing.
And yeah, you’ll be able to send and receive several different cryptocurrencies too, with the on-device Zion Wallet. Again, I’m not an expert on Bitcoin, so I don’t really know what that all means–nor do I know the value of something like that. But, what I do know the value of is the rest of the Exodus 1s as a handset. And it’sThe smartphone features a 5.7″ HD+ 720p display up front, for starters.
But hey, at least HTC knows that it probably won’t sell too well because it’s only going on sale in a handful of markets–namely Taiwan, Europe, Saudi Arabia and the UAE. —
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