.Since 2008, blockchain technology has become the basis of bitcoin cryptocurrency, but no company has developed it more widely in the form of popular devices.
In the form of hardware Already many we find, for example appeared earlier on Nano Ledger and Trezor as wallet hardware. Both devices are indeed proven to bring the discourse of crypto money into the mainstream (mainstream).
Apparently complementing that technology, Sirin Labs plans to create the world's first blockchain flavored smartphone, called Finney Phone and desktop computers. The advantages of this phone is in the operating system, which has embedded blockchain technology.
In this case Sirin Labs will use IOTA blockchain, although IOTA itself says that, IOTA is different from blockchain, which they call Tangle.
With that device, claimed Sirin Lab, users can transact crypto money named SRN safer and no fee at all.
Quoted from the website, in financial transactions, the operating system allows to convert crypto money into fiat money and vice versa. And because its operating system, Sirin Shield, uses blockchain technology, the device is considered more secure than other operating systems such as Android.
Quoted from Bloomberg (22/3/2018), Sirin Lab plans to release Finney Phone to the market worth US $ 1,000 in the middle of this year. Sirin Labs spokesman Nimrod May revealed the pre-order of the phone has reached 2500 units. Interestingly, even Huawei reportedly interested in using SirinShield on their own phone.
The Huawei officials have met Sirin Labs team two months ago. The information was posted on the Siren Labs Telegram group on February 28th.
"An interesting meeting between Sirin Labs and Huawei. Among the many discussions, it is possible to establish cooperation to bring blockchain technology to the public, safely, "Bloomberg quoted a source as saying.
Through SirinShield, Sirin Labs will also provide the SDK, enabling programmers to make DApp decentralized apps in SirinShield.
Earlier in mid-2016 Sirin Labs has been producing Solarin, an Android-based smart phone for US $ 20,000, which is claimed to be very safe (tampering proof and unhackable). Inside Solarin embedded chip-to-chip 256 bit AES encryption, a popular technology that has been used by the military around the world to secure its communications.
Source : Bloomberg.com