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HTC Exodus is available, in Early Access, purchasable only in Bitcoin and Ethereum.

The price: 0.15 BTC or 4.78 ETH.
Some main specs:
Snapdragon 845
6 GB RAM
128GB Internal Memory
QHD+ display
16+12 Megapixel cameras (Will probably be one of the bests in the market, as HTC U12+ ranks 3rd on DxOmark)

Its clear to see, that his is a high-end phone, only purchasable with cryptocurrencies. But what makes it special, is the fact that it is the first ever phone dedicated to cryptocurrencies and blockchain technology.
It will include a "secure enclave" that is separate from the Android operating system, where cryptocurrency, and private keys can be securely stored. Also, the phone will support dApps.

But lets not forget: HTC is close to an all-time low, and is the worst in 15  years (by stock prices).
I'm curious to see how will it turn out.

Anyone who wish to know more about it: https://www.htcexodus.com/

If only I'm capable of buying that but sadly I won't purchase that phone for now. I'll wait after few years until I can purchase it at all. I don't spend money if I still got phone to use but I would love to have it when I can.

I hope that HTC would keep on developing blockchain smartphones. I'm counting for the success of this phone.

Hmm.. I could probably get a phone with a specs like that in a cheaper price, so I guess the reason why it's priced like that, is because of the cryptocurency features.

And there's really not much info on their site about it (its prolly not worth the money tho). Well anyways, If someone reading this is planning to buy, I would suggest to wait for some reviews first unless you're super rich.

This would only caught attention of crypto users but on a typical citizen that knows nothing about blockchain tech will definitely find a better option. SD 845 is the latest Chip on the market and with the current conversion of
0.15 btc as of writing is $960 which isnt really bad for a flagship model plus an integrated blockchain wallet  usability but it wont really be practical at all because i with that price i will buy
 Xiaomi Pocophone F1 with the price of $300+ plus a Ledger nano for hardware wallet purposes for a cheap price then imagine on how much you have saved? HTC is long gone on the race of companies into mobile industry but still this comeback will really be a flop.

Is that phone supposed to replace a hardware wallet when it comes to security? It costs almost 1000$. I see no reason to buy it unless you actually need a phone at the same time. Instead, one could accumulate more bitcoins and buy a hardware wallet which is much cheaper.

All due respect to HTC but on the specs listed (which by the way speaks nothing of specific blockchain capability), not convincing enough to want me to go for a blockchain smartphone when it costs almost 5 times the device I have, I honestly can't see why I'd pay premium when I can already use Bitcoin on my phone and as securely.

The Finney at $999 seems a much better proposition, if the claims of what it can do are for real.

There's are better smartphones out there, and as far as storing your crypto's in phones, I would rather purchase trezor and nano to truly separates everything. Even though its touted having a secure enclave, its still a smartphone and always connected online so there's still a big risk, just saying.

Exactly. Trezor's a very good option at 15% of the price - stores tons of different assets, never needs to connect online, and really that's as good as it gets without going overboard with airgapping etc. (though others may insist paranoia is the only way to deal with Bitcoin storage!).

I'm not completely off the idea of checking out the Finney, though. They did their crowdfund well, and they have enough in the bag to put out a very decent device - but it's more out of curiosity than anything else. Not a big fan of anything that isn't Bitcoin, and weaned myself off the need to get the latest gadgets 15 years ago. Still... the idea of a phone with a Dapps store and IPS, behavioural learning... could still be fun to play with at the same price as an iphone.

Lol. I do not even see how the blockchain features makes it a lot different from what could be obtainable normally when it comes to the usage of high end phones with most of them in the market.

It is not a bad attempt to want to try to catch the attention of some group of crypto enthusiast anyway, knowing with the way their stock has been over the years, and looking for different innovations to want to at least, make something out to be able to boost their stock, but I really do not seem to see this as a way to achieve that, as I have a lot of skepticism myself right now and I do not see the main value yet for the amount that it is being sold for. Seriously, for saving my crypto asset or private key, I would rather go the cold storage way instead.

The only way I see it being useful when it comes to the blockchain space is the ability to store your private key and really I would rather go buy a safe or a ledger Nano to do that than rely on some mobile software on some HTC phone to do that for me. It is not a bad specs for a phone actually and whoever wants to buy it can be my guest, but this is not the first high end phone that would come with even better specs than this. I am actually looking forward to see how the Apps aspect is going to be playing out though, but in situations like this, I always like to stay on the sidelines and watch how events unfold than being too much in haste.

https://www.crypto-economy.net/wp-content/uploads/2018/11/EXODUS-Phone-EXODUS.jpg

What will we find in the new HTC Exodus One? (https://www.crypto-economy.net/en/what-will-we-find-in-the-new-htc-exodus-one/)

One of the most unique needs when it comes to our cryptocurrencies is the secure storage of them. This implies considering physical storage devices, as well as other possibilities. But if you have the opportunity to have a mobile device, smart, that allows you to have a secure wallet, and be much more than a smartphone, that will be the HTC Exodus.

A few months ago we were talking about how HTC would be preparing a new Smartphone with blockchain, wallet and other features. Well, it is a reality.

Read more... (https://www.crypto-economy.net/en/what-will-we-find-in-the-new-htc-exodus-one/)

I can't find any info whether they're planning to open source this or not. If they won't, don't you guys think this would be useless?

Regardless of how secure this is, I'm pretty sure It could be hacked. So when that happens and the whole thing is closed source, how is it possible to tell whether this came from HTC or somewhere else? Just because HTC is a reputable company doesn't mean we should blindly trust them.

EXODUS Launch | Berlin
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=7YHU05HEFQQ

I think a better choice would be to make the cheapest smartphone possible... Even no hi-res camera or big screen - whatever keeps it cheap!  A no frills smartphone with Cryptocurrency utility - cheaper than any in its class!  They shouldn’t even try to make a profit on the phone, just invest in CC.  Releasing a CHEAP phone like that would probably stimulate the CC market, and maybe even wean folx off these unnecessarily expensive smartphones with all kinds of high tech capabilities many people won’t even use! 8)

Anyone who is interested in HTC Exodus, should definitely take a look at Aphone! Much more progressive blockchain infrastructure, plus using HTC exodus as hardware!

Honestly I do not understand the usefulness of this phone, the price is high, the technical specifications leave something to be desired, there are better products at a lower price, for safety is always the same rule, everyone is the owner of their own destiny and if you lose also this phone and you leave the keys inside the cover ...

Is anyone gonna buy this? Too expensive imo. Also, they delaying supplies from 15th of october

In as much as this phone cost way higher than it should be. But on the other hand, being a phone with an integrated wallet makes a really cool stuff. Considering that the demand for it might not be as high as it should be, but it just goes a long way to show how much of mainstream and adoption cryptocurrencies are getting.

No. I'm not totally sold on this one. The question still remains how trusted and how the security features is. Plus its really expensive and we all know that we need to buy something not because of the price but how it will perform, so for me its better to go purchase a hardware wallet, just saying.

What exactly would the phone be doing for me, will it be mining Bitcoin or what? I don’t really see any reason why I should be buying that phone lol, I have already read about it online and there is nothing good or different I see in it. I’m okay with the phone I’m using, there is no need to change it. They are all phones and they still do the same thing, Bitcoin wallets runs on every phone same as it will do in the exodus phone.

Yes, this is, but HTC declared that there will delay to release it. Maybe they are waiting for something. Whatever I need that phone because of love to Bitcoin.

For real, you guys thinking of buying that phone? I saw it last year and I don’t even like it. And I’m not going to buy any phone just because they said it’s for crypto, I’m not crazy about crypto please. And I don’t even see anything about it, except some few features they mentioned, that to me, doesn’t even make any sense at all. And the price they called is even too much. I’m not even buying that, it won’t be useful to me.

Well, that will be a long story if you will argue to people who want to collect things they admire, it might be for their collections, arts, assets, etc. and you can obviously say that's crazy, and make no sense for buying/collecting but for them, it's a huge thing.

Just let them as long no one is harm, and it's their money after all.

some of people are saying this is expensive which is not,compared to its rival finney,htc exodus has similar feature as htc u12+ which is great bcz for average guy it can fulfill both requirement of phone and blockchain technology.although finney has more decentralized feature but still it is half the price of it and has more specs than finney.as per i know there are facing some bug problem which is common as it is a try and it can help htc to come back as major smartphone company.

I wont believe that this phone can make a comeback into their reputation nor making back into the game with other smartphone companies.Yes, its unique but considering in the price which is $600+ basing on the specs there are lots of more better phones than on this one which I do believe most costumers will definitely neglect this except for those who are really passionate with crypto and besides
I don't know if its fitted to make use of the word "secure" since mobile phones are always prone to connectivity.

You should really check Aphone.vip

It uses HTC exodus as hardware and some unique software features, including mining!

should be out by now? has anyone tested it?
-> https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=vY6EplKdCc8

found one unboxing vid:)
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=9JWyoEFHFLY

The price has now increased to 0.22 BTC:

https://i.imgur.com/5dN1byf.png

I guess the BTC/USD price affected it.

I have always been a fan of the HTC brand, and I am glad that they are developing towards cryptocurrency, it is possible that other brands of phones will also join this direction, and it will be good for cryptocurrency in general, I will wait for the appearance of this smartphone

Nicely put bro.

HTC is definitely way behind on the smartphone race. and the price point they are offering is not helping at all

The declared idea of ​​the HTC company was not successful. How else can I explain start of the sale of Exodus 1 for fiat money. The starting price is $ 699 and it is quite high measuring with modern smartphones today. So we should pay for cool idea or great hardware ? Apparently, it’s too early to think about crypto-future in device sphere in 2018-19.

many smartphones now have high specifications but are cheap,
so for me the exodus might be suitable for pro cryptocurrency players,
but I am more suited to the ordinary but has a similar cellphone specification.

first major blockchain smartphone ?   no it isnt  .  there was a generic brand of phone before that supports blockchain and crypto  . the release of the phone was on the late 2017  if im not mistaken and other brand of  phones do also follow after they saw this kind of phone and now i see that htc is now also following the trend about blockchain/crypto  . i think brands like htc are going to contribute alot to the adoption of crypto when compare to other generic brands out there that suppots blockchain and crypto its because htc is already well known in the phone industry  .

So my question is what exactly makes this phone so special, because based on what I have seen there isn't anything so special about it, unless maybe it contains more security features than other phones in terms of storing your bitcoin and other crypto assets.

But, I don't have interest in it, I already have a hardware wallet that I'm making use of and I also have a very good phone, so all these things doesn't really matter to me. And another thing I don't like is that the phone is costly, but whatever…

It's just marketing, don't fall for this. You can get a Xiaomi Pocophone F1 (same CPU, RAM, storage and better battery capacity) for 300$ then buy a ledger nano S or Trezor and have around 250$ left.

You are right, this is more like marketing. I have big doubts about storing crypto on phones. It is not reliable and not safe. For this purpose, specialized devices are better suited - hardware wallets.

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Exactly. Don't buy the hype, I would rather invest on a hardware wallet than buying a expensive phone with blockchain or crypto wallet features. Doesn't make sense at all to shell out that huge money when there is that big risk involved because your phone will always be connected on the internet, and that is one possible weaknesses of this phone.

And that is the sad news, people will continue to buy the hype, not just in smartphone but in any industries. I mean this is how companies make money, releasing products and then put a lot of hype around it. And that is why consumers should be very very wise. This is not cheap by any means, so if crypto enthusiast will just get it because it is the latest craze because of this so called "blockchain smartphone', then think again. You can spend your money well by just buying a hard wallet and you will have a good night sleep. Instead of playing around with this and you don't know that there are chances you might get hack so easily.

Every thing adding up with new features and making money that is called mobile. If you few years we didn't see phone with camera but now many phones are with 48mp and high resolution cameras in build on there.

Then few months back Samsung also joined the party to create new blockchain phone.

more smart phone will have a trust zone  to keep the security for blockchain keystory,for example ,sumsang

As excepted, no one is buying the phone, i wonder if htc will really give updates to this phone, seeing the past history of htc devices not getting update makes me worried, HTC should stop making bad decisions over and over again if they want the company alive, from #1 android phone before now a hot trash.

Some noobs will still buy this phone and says, 'damn it was a total ripoff', lol. But for most advance experience, nah this is just another way of joining the hype on blockchain/bitcoin technology. We haven't heard any successful smart phones right with that integration. We heard about Samsung, but so far no news whatsoever.

Samsung with that enjin coin?

That thing didnt sell out well.These kind of integration doesnt make any different.Yes,it do give out some noise about Crypto but
not really much and as you said for those people who do buy on these phones doesnt have totally enough knowledge or awareness about
crypto existence.