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Sirin Labs Finney is a blockchain smartphone with flagship specs (and pricing)

05/08/2018 at 4:46 PM by Brad Linder 7 Comments

Sirin Labs plans to launch a “blockchain smartphone” called the Finney later this year, offering a flagship Android device that also happens to have dedicated hardware that lets it work as a secure “cold storage” crypto wallet for storing cryptocurrency data.

In other words, it’s both a smartphone and a secure blockchain-based device for authenticating transactions made via Bitcoin or other digital cryptocurrencies. And you’re really, really going to want to make sure not to drop it in a toilet or leave it in the back seat of a taxi.

The Finney phone is expected to go on sale later this year for around $1,000 and while Sirin Labs has been talking about the phone for a while, the company hadn’t revealed the full spec sheet… until today.

According to Cryptoninjas and Engadget, here’s what we can expect from the phone:

  • 6 inch, 18:9 display with 402 pixels per inch
  • Qualcomm Snapdragon 845 processor
  • 6GB of RAM
  • 128GB of storage
  • 12MP rer camera and 8MP front camera
  • 3,000 mAh battery
  • 802.11ac WiFi, Bluetooth 5.0, NFC, and LTE Cat 22
  • Fingerprint sensor
  • MicroSD card slot
  • Metal frame and Gorilla Glass screen
  • IP52 splash-resistance
  • Android 8.1 with Google mobile certification

The cold storage wallet is said to be secure, tamper-resistant, and separate from the rest of the phone’s hardware, which means even if you install Android Malware, your crypto should be uncompromised.

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Crypo wallet on a SD card, with a physical switch push the SD card onto the phone contacts. The SD card is backed-up to off-line storage. That is how I would do it…. keep it cold.

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I use a low end android phone without a sim card. Just as cold as an SD card but more useful.

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Failing to see the point of this. If the wallet is separate from the phone hardware, you could just make a phone case that accomplishes the same thing and doesn’t cost $1000 for a phone from an unproven manufacturer.

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Unproven? Have you heard of Foxconn? They make the biggest and best. This phone could be a game changer

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I hope their hardware wallet can compete with trezor and ledger (the leaders in this space).

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Run away. This smells like vaporware.

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This looks like every other flagship smartphone these days, Are they really doing anything different other than adding “blockchain” to their name?

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