The company launched «HTC» Taiwan, the second model of smart phones known as «phones chain blocks» that enable its users to generate, store, sell, buy and trade cryptocurrencies via mobile phone, bringing the number of models currently available in the global market of those types of The phones are three models, including the previous model «HTC» known as «XDIS», in addition to the smartphone «Fini» launched by the company «Sirin Labs» Swiss earlier this year, to form the three phones a strong entry expected for this type of devices To the mobile phone market during the next year to.
low price
According to a report published by the site «Computer World» on «phones mass series», «« HTC »introduced the new model at a low price equivalent to less than half the price of the first model, where the price of the first model 699 dollars, while the second phone offered at a price The phone of Cyrine Labs is still at $ 1,000. The price drop in this way will necessarily accelerate the spread of this new type of phone among wider segments of users in the coming period.
has evolved
The company «HTC» revealed its interest in «phones chain blocks» early last year, when it announced for the first time plans to sell a smartphone based on «blocks chains», and can store cryptocurrencies on a separate chip, while allowing its user to play a game « Crypto Ketz, a gaming system developed with decentralized distributed software applications, or D-Up, runs over a decade on peer-to-peer networks.
In February, the company launched its first model called Xceed 1, which included a special secure section where users can store the crypto currency completely separate from the operating system «Android» and then trade them online, without the need to use a computer Desktop or laptop.
«Full Contract»
Phil Chin, HTC's chief decentralized distributed application technology chief, said that the first-of-the-line “block chain phones” had achieved the company's sales targets, leading it to launch the second model, the Xceeds 1S. Which includes a "full node" of Bitcoin, and the phone has become part of the distributed ledger network from Nad to Nad.
Qin explained that «full nodes» means a computer running a particular program, the computer becomes part of the network «Bitcoin» distributed cash, which in another context means the existence of a mirrored copy of the ledger for the entire chain chains on the computer, and therefore «full node» It is the most important element in the flexibility of the Bitcoin network.
He added that by making the contract available over the phone, HTC would reduce the barrier for anyone to operate a “full node” for generating and trading Bitcoin via smartphones. The ledger represents the complete distributor of the block chains used by HTC 260. Gigabytes of data, while growing at 60 gigabytes per year.
A great breakthrough
Jack Gold, a senior analyst at G Gold Associates Research and Studies, said: “Blockchain phones have a very promising future and will attract a wide audience in the coming period because cryptocurrency generation and trading activities are becoming a reality and growing at an accelerated pace.” He pointed out that «mass-cell phones» of «HTC» and «Cyrine Labs» is only the beginning that will be followed by a major breakthrough like the invasion of the mobile phone market to the extent described.
«Block Chain Phones»
Block Chain Phones are pre-equipped phones to support and operate Block Chain technology, or Block Chain, where the phone comes with an operating system that is parallel to the Android operating system, to perform tasks related to cryptocurrencies. Traded currencies, which are based on block chaining technology, which achieve automatic arrangement, coordination and synchronization in the management and operation of computer systems, software, information systems, middleware and services in a unified service-oriented context, virtualization, converged infrastructure, and dynamic data centers Automated work, and account management. It also maintains a list of uninterrupted growth records, insured against tampering and auditing. Financial workers describe it as an "open public ledger," shared by many separate parties in their data and transactions.