Given the chance to briefly hold the phone, we can say it very much looks and feels like a premium Android phone that you’d find from Google or Samsung, with a dash of iPhone-like minimalism. The sizable Android handset will feature a Qualcomm Snapdragon 8+ Gen 1 processor, a 6.67” OLED display, 12GB RAM, and 512GB of internal storage. Keats was previously the R&D head at Essential, a startup that made its own Android phone, and OSOM will be doing much the same: the previously announced OSOM OV1 will now be rebranded as the Solana Saga. Yakovenko said the idea went from concept to reality once he met Jason Keats, founder and “Chief Hooligan” at OSOM Products.
That's just something that we always felt.” “What does it look like with 1 billion people using ? What do you imagine? It's in this device-the device you use everyday,” he said, holding up the Solana Saga prototype. But the idea of improving Web3 access and functionality on mobile has been in his head for years, particularly given his past experience as a Qualcomm engineer. The company also revealed the Saga, a powerful Android smartphone that will be released in early 2023.Īnatoly Yakovenko, co-founder of Solana and CEO of Solana Labs, told Decrypt that his team has been working on the SMS push for about five months, and the hardware itself for a bit longer. Solana Labs yesterday revealed the Solana Mobile Stack (SMS) software kit, which provides tools for developing native Android mobile apps, walls, and games, and also includes a decentralized app store. Yes, Solana Labs has built a mobile software platform… but it’s also releasing a smartphone. Solana ’s teasers leading up to yesterday’s “SMS” event suggested something to do with mobile, but few could have imagined the twist that was announced in New York City. Decrypt spoke with Solana co-founder Anatoly Yakovenko after the event.Solana Labs revealed a mobile platform called SMS and an Android smartphone device today.
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