(Reuters) – Swiss-Israeli technology firm Sirin Labs said that FIH Mobile, a subsidiary of world’s largest contract electronics manufacturer Foxconn, will manufacture its Finney blockchain smartphone, which is designed to securely store and use digital currencies such as Bitcoin in transactions with no fees.
Finney, the world’s first blockchain-based smartphone, can automatically convert tokens for the use of decentralized applications, without having to obtain the different tokens through an exchange, Sirin said.
The company raised $157.8 million in an initial coin offering in December to support the development of an open source blockchain smartphone, as well as a blockchain personal computer.
Sirin plans to sell the device through eight new stores located in Vietnam and Turkey and has so far more than 25,000 units preordered, according to a Bloomberg report.
Sirin aims to ship from 100,000 to a few million units this year, the report said.
(Reporting by Rama Venkat Raman in Bengaluru; Editing by Leslie Adler)
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