THELOGICALINDIAN - CES 2025 is about to accessible a new decade of customer electronics inventions and the brilliant of the appearance is the worlds aboriginal blockchainpowered smartphone
Blockchain Phones Are Hot Business
With the accession of 2025, the apple has clearly entered into a new decade, which will assuredly accompany new technologies and inventions, but additionally new threats. When it comes to threats online, there is absolutely no curtailment of them.
Hackers and added cybercriminals assume to be everywhere, with malware, viruses, and akin consistently accepting added sophisticated. Meanwhile, the cardinal of internet users about the apple is on a connected rise, authoritative added and added bodies accessible to said threats.
This is no secret, either, and some studies advance that 8 out of 10 internet users feel accessible while online, with little to no ascendancy over their data. So far, aegis advisers managed to argue the authorities of the dangers and the absoluteness and severity of these threats, although a few accomplish that were taken to abate these threats accept yet to accompany any above impact.
This is area blockchain technology, with its decentralized attributes and immutability, comes into play, able a absolute adjustment of accretion aegis for the aboriginal time in years. However, with the cardinal of adaptable users consistently on the rise, there was a above appeal and an alike bigger abridgement of blockchain-based smartphones. A few attempts to accomplish them in the accomplished bootless due to the abridgement of awareness, trust, or interest.
This is why Consumer Electronics Show (CES) 2020 is accepted to be a above game-changer, as it will introduce the world’s aboriginal blockchain-powered phone, alleged Blok on Blok (BOB). BOB is a artefact created by a aggregation Pundi X, headquartered in Singapore, and it acts as its aboriginal flagship smartphone product.
The conception of BOB
The buzz was originally accepted as XPhone, and it was presented during the Bali Blockchain Summit in 2018. After the Summit, the aggregation rebranded and able the phone, ensuring the users’ absolute aloofness by developing a new operating system, f(x) OS (Function X OS). The arrangement ensures that every call, text, or added action, are fabricated online, through a decentralized app or browser.
Meanwhile, anniversary BOB buzz acts as a bulge of the network, which eliminates the charge for a centralized account provider or carrier. Simply put, the added BOBs there are in the world, the bigger the network, and the stronger the decentralization.
Pundi X’s co-founder and CEO, Zac Cheah, declared that the ambition is to ensure that the users’ abstracts will accord to the users themselves and that the aftermost decade has accurate that users charge to be added accurate with their information.
New BOB designs are coming
However, back it will booty time for bodies to get acclimated to the abstraction of a decentralized arrangement for their phone, BOB will accept an advantage to about-face amid blockchain approach to added acceptable states. This is accessible due to the Android 9 Pie OS.
In agreement of design, BOB has a retro-futuristic look, and anniversary amalgamation will accommodate the MOD accumulation kit, including amount apparatus and assorted accessories.
While its absence anatomy absolutely feels affected and sci-fi, users will accept the adeptness to adapt its attending through 3D printing. Meanwhile, the Function X Foundation affairs to allure designers from about the world, and ask them to abide their account for the blockchain-powered phone, consistent in 5-10 altered MOD designs, in total.
BOB can be pre-ordered today, January 7th, on Indiegogo at 9 am PST. Early birds can apprehend a discount, while the latest ancestor can be apparent at the CES 2020 at Sands, Hall G – 52501 in Eureka Park in Las Vegas, Nevada.
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