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Starting today interested parties will be able to pick HTC's blockchain phone up through more traditional means, including USD, which prices the handset at a not unreasonable $699. One assumes, of course, if you've got enough of an interested in purchasing a blockchain phone that they've already got a bit of Bitcoin, Ether or Litecoin lying about.
HTC Decentralized Chief Officer Phil Chen calls the product the company's 1.0 solution.
HTC has long held that a device like this will play an important role in the future of a company struggling to find its way as it feels the burn of a stagnating mobile industry.
As project head and Chen told me on stage at a TechCrunch event in Shenzhen last year that HTC is "As committed as they are to the Vive. I don't think it's number one of the priority list, but I would say it's number three or four."
It's perhaps not a huge number in the grand scheme of a company the size of HTC, but it's a sizable chunk of manpower, considering the fact that the product is mostly built using existing HTC hardware.
I've been carrying an Exodus One around for about a week now, and it feels like a pretty standard HTC handset, both in terms of hardware and Android software, right down to the inclusion the size-squeezing Edge Sense.
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