Key facts:
It is Solana Mobile’s first smartphone after Saga, launched in May 2023.
Seeker has a longer battery life and a more affordable price than its predecessor.
Solana Mobile, a corporate arm of the Solana network dedicated to the development and design of smartphones, has added a new model to its line of phones. It is called Solana Seeker.
This phone has built-in web3 capabilities, and unlike its predecessor, it is “lighter, brighter, with a better camera and longer battery life at a more affordable price” than the Saga, Solana Mobile says in its X account.
According to Solana Mobile’s website, shipments of this smartphone will begin in 2025.
Solana Seeker has a built-in wallet called Solflare, considered the first native Solana wallet. This phone also integrates a hardware seed vaultor a vault for storing seed phrases created specifically for this device.
Like modern phones, It has a fingerprint sensor to unlock the device and to sign transactions with cryptocurrencies.
As a way to provide rewards to future users of the device and those who pre-order it, Solana Seeker has its own native, non-transferable token:
“Each Solana Seeker generates its own non-transferable Seeker Genesis Token. It unlocks exclusive rewards, upgrades, access, and content across the Solana ecosystem,” the statement reads. web from Solana Mobile.
Due to its purpose as a device to interact with the web3, Solana Seeker would be compatible with the Solana dApp ecosystem.
For example, with decentralized exchanges like Raydium or Jupiter; with domain name services like Solana Name Service, which works similar to the namesake Ethereum Name Services (ENS); games like Star Atlas or Aurory and wallets like Phantom.
Solana Seeker Technical Specifications
Solana Seeker has a 1GB RAM, providing the device with a capacity of 16GB.processing capacity considered mid-high range. Solana Saga, the predecessor of Seeker, has a larger RAM of 12 GB. At the same time, Seeker has an internal storage space of 128 GB, while Saga offers 512 GB.
The new device features a 6.36″ AMOLED display, slightly smaller than the Saga’s 6.67″ display. One of the features of AMOLED is that the pixels can be turned off completely, which causes a deep black effect when viewing dark colors, while also using less battery power.
The Seeker has a 108+32 megapixel camera setup. Both the front and secondary cameras are higher resolution than the Saga phone’s 50MP + 12MP ones.
Pre-order prices and events
At the time of writing, Solana Seeker It is priced at USD 450 for a limited time during the “founder window””, the first of the pre-sale phases. The next window, that of early adopterwill raise the price of the Solana Seeker to $500. In general, these prices are more affordable than the Saga, which was priced at $1,000 at the time of its release. The price of Solana Seeker in the final pre-sale window is unknown, and also has no date.
Those interested in the product will be able to order only one per person, and a maximum of five per household. As reported by CriptoNoticias, the price of the SOL cryptocurrency skyrocketed after the announcement of Solana Mobile’s second phone. To date, the device already has more than 140,000 pre-ordered units, and Solana’s price rose by 11%.
