OnePlus Might Comply with Samsung With Cryptophone Launch

OnePlus could possibly be set to comply with Samsung and HTC in including cryptocurrency help to its smartphones; in keeping with tech website MySmartPrice, the Chinese language machine producer is testing the waters with a survey on blockchain expertise.

The survey asks respondents whether or not they have invested in cryptocurrency, for the way lengthy, in addition to the frequency at which they make investments and verify crypto costs.

It additionally polls customers on which buying and selling platforms respondents have used, together with Coinbase, Gemini and Robinhood, whether or not they’ve used software program wallets similar to MetaMask, and the way they really feel in regards to the safety of saving seed phrases within the cloud. Lastly, the survey asks whether or not respondents have used {hardware} wallets or purchased NFTs—and whether or not they have ever purchased second-hand telephones.

The questions across the safety of seed phrases and second-hand telephones recommend that the corporate could possibly be planning a tool with some type of cryptocurrency help.

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OnePlus and the cryptophone market

If OnePlus have been to develop its personal “cryptophone,” it would not be the primary smartphone producer to take action.

Samsung smartphones have featured help for its Samsung Blockchain cryptocurrency pockets since 2019; subsequent fashions of its flagship Galaxy smartphone line have included a built-in crypto pockets that shops personal keys within the telephone’s Knox safe enclave. Final month, Samsung up to date the Blockchain Pockets app to incorporate help for crypto {hardware} wallets.

Rival producer HTC took issues a step additional with its Exodus line of fully-fledged cryptophones; the Exodus 1 and Exodus 1s embody a built-in {hardware} pockets and even the flexibility to run a full Bitcoin node. In fact, their node-running capability was extra of a celebration piece than an actual utility, as to make use of it, you’d want to depart the telephone plugged in and charging.

HTC’s curiosity within the blockchain area seems to have dwindled; nevertheless, its final cryptophone launch was the “Binance Version” Exodus 1 again in November 2019, with no subsequent fashions within the line having been introduced.