HTC previously announced the Exodus 1, which was earlier available for about $960 and can only be purchased using Ethereum or Bitcoin.

We dealt with the first appearance of the phone and touched on its technical specifications in the title:

Exodus launches the first blockchain-enabled smartphone that can only be purchased with digital currency

HTC announced yesterday the release of a new version of the Exodus 1 phone, but this time at reasonable prices.

The new device, which bears the same name with the addition of the letter “S” to become the designation (HTC Exodus 1s), is estimated at 219 euros, equivalent to about 244 dollars.

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HTC Exodus 1s comes with a built-in Bitcoin wallet that allows device owners to buy, sell and lend cryptocurrency directly from the device.

The device also has software tools that enable it to run a full Bitcoin node.

This function is designed based on the budget Android platform.

stated Phil Chen, HTC’s Chief Decentralization Officer, said in a press release:

We provide the essential tools for accessing global core finance.

The gadgets on the phone are similar to those of a Swiss bank and are shortened to a pants pocket.

The phone is backed by full nodes, which is the most important component of the resilience of the Bitcoin network.

We also lowered the barrier of entry for anyone to operate a node, which is simply a laptop in our case that participates in the global Bitcoin network that publishes transactions and blocks everywhere and is the foundation and basic definition of a peer-to-peer cash system.

HTC Exodus 1s:

As for the most important technical details of the HTC Exodus 1s phone, and before touching on that, we touch on its much lower price than the first version, which, as we indicated at the beginning of the topic, cost $ 1000 when it appeared, with the obligation to pay in Bitcoin or Ethereum, to be later sold for $ 699.

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While the HTC Exodus 1s is much less expensive, as it was launched at a price of 244 dollars.

The new Exodus 1s phone runs Android Oreo 8.1 and carries a “Qualcomm Snapdragon 435” processor inside with 4 GB of random access memory (RAM) and a storage space of 64 GB.

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MicroSD card support up to 512 GB, given that the entire Bitcoin blockchain is estimated at 260 GB and grows annually at a rate of 60 GB.

The phone has a 5.7-inch screen, a 13-megapixel front and rear camera, and a 3000 mAh battery.

The HTC Exodus 1s debuted at the Lightning Conference in Berlin, where it was immediately sold out using the Lightning payment network.

Several countries are included To dial the phone In advance, including Arab countries, which are as follows:

Taiwan, European countries, Saudi Arabia, United Arab Emirates.

While the rest of the countries, including the United States of America, the phone will be available to order at a later time.

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