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Shortly after the Solana saga began in 2023, the popular tech YouTuber Marques Brownlee, known as Mkbhd, released a video, titled “This is a crypto phone. Don’t buy it.” Brownley complained to its 20 million YouTube customers about the average glasses of the saga, high price and excessive niche crypto features.
Brownley along with another video, the Naming of Solana saga busting the largest smartphone of 2023, causing Solana labs joke That it released an award -winning phone.
In creating a Solana seeker, Solana Mobile has taken its critics seriously, either reversing the course or upgrading significantly at the weak points of the saga. Overall, Solana Mobile has given a very solid new phone in Sikar to instigate its saga demons.
My first impression of the seeker was how light the phone is. I was unable to determine its accurate weight, but the seeker felt carefully lighter than my colleague’s iPhone. This was the first piece of evidence that Solana took her critics seriously, banned to be widely very heavy after the saga.
Portability can also be useful as many of the 150,000 cyst buyers of the seeker can use it as another phone, but this does not mean any way the quality of the seeker is prosecuted in any way.
In general, performs about the seeker as well as you can expect a $ 500 phone in 2025. Battery life and displays are quite solid. The camera is good but not spectacular. Mediatik Dimentation 7300 Chip is not the top-of-the-line, and the phone felt a little warm in my hands after a match of heavy use, but the seeker usually does everything I want to do without a leg or bugs.
Like his predecessor, the seeker comes with a underlying “seed vault”, which is basically a very safe way to store the keys of the crypto wallet. The phone comes with a native wallet that is integrated with seed vault and can be fingerprint-protected, so a thief will not be able to access it (unless, of course, they steal your finger as well). The wallet has a stock tab where non-American users can buy xstocks, a new token stock product on Solana.
The seeker has Google Play Store and has a return to Solana-Native Dapp Store. The DApp store has expanded since 2023, when it has been depicted fewer From two dozen apps. Now the store has more than 100 apps, some of which are available only at the DApp store. Not all DApp store apps have been made uniform-For example, now-difuction mango markets listed one (non-functional) apps-but Solna Mobile provided some best primary real estate as specially displayed apps.
Ketlin Cook, who works in development in one of these specially displayed apps in the Moonwalk, stressed that becoming a Sikar launched partner was not a paid partnership, and Solana wanted to organize the new consumer crypto app systematically.
“In the context of the process, being listed on the Solana Dap Store was a mild lift for us. Since we already had a live Android app, it only took a few quick tweaks. With what I have seen, Solana Mobile Team has done a great job to the teams moving ahead of the browser-based UX and prepared for the mobile-deleted experiences, which are ready to carry out the mobile-dive experiences, which are ready for the mobile-deed Is.
A segment of seekers buyers may receive a phone with disappointment, however, because 24 hours after using the phone, crypto token aircrafts are still magically visible in my wallet. Airdrops- Bonk tokens especially Bonk tokens-What was the commercial success Salana saga, but a chief contributor in Bonak confirmed me that the Memcoin project has no current-like aircraft-like aircraft that is planned to users.
The speculative savings grace for the seeker may be the upcoming SKR tokens, which Slanna Mobile said that according to the slide deck shared with the blockwork, “directly for builders and users”, will flow directly to builders and users.
It is not clear for me whether Solana will continue to release the phone after a mobile seeker, or if it will focus on its newly unveiled Tipin mobile architecture to onboard more equipment. But in any way, Solana Mobile deserves credit for giving a serious, grown smartphone. Keep another way, I do not see any unwanted awards in the future of the seeker.
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