We as passionate users of cryptocurrencies and everything that is the Blockchain theme, we are always looking for the next great creation that will surely revolutionize and improve the way we do things, either facilitating our lives and opening new possibilities for tomorrow, or a new opportunity to generate income, and for today I want to talk about the Universal Basic Smartphone (UBS).
A topic which I have found very interesting and I have not seen it explained here, so I hope to be the first to make it known in this community, I want to explain how it is changing the way in which Telegram users can access the TON network (The Open Network), because it is really something you have to know, and even if you can not get one of them, it is always good to be informed of all this.
Make yourself comfortable that today's article will be very interesting, and if you get to buy one of these devices it would be much cooler, because it has good features or an interest behind all this, which in the end can be good for its holder.
Universal Basic Smartphone Image - Edited in Photoshop CC
Table of contents for this article:
♦️ What is Universal Basic Smartphone?
♦️ Why buy the Universal Basic Smartphone?
♦️ Comparison with the Solana Phone
What is the Universal Basic Smartphone?
First let's talk about why this new phone is different from the others, because surely you have a phone in your hands and you think it is a very good phone in terms of features, performance specifications or a good quality of camera sensors, but is that unlike that, the phone that I will show you today still does not have many specifications to make it a direct competitor of more prominent brands, but this has a very strong point because it is a phone that promises to make the crypto experience much easier to understand for users, and specifically with the TON network.
One of the limitations for many users not to get into the blockchain topic is that sometimes, depending on the network they use, new users find it a bit difficult to understand this topic, they find it difficult to understand how to create Wallets, how they work and other processes that are already common for us, However, a phone is something that today is indispensable for many and for this reason everyone has a phone, or most of them do, so this is where a phone comes into play that has the essential functions so that a user with little experience can become more familiar with the crypto topic.
The Universal Basic Smartphone is a device developed by the company Oyster Labs. It is a phone designed primarily to focus on the TON network and works optimally for Telegram users, but that does not take away the great possibilities of making use of other crypto ecosystems outside the TON network, and I say this because it has more than 600 decentralized applications (Dapps) available from the first day of use, and that's great, it's like having in your hand everything you need in the crypto world.
A tool that all of us would like to have and carry everywhere to be aware of the market and even being away from our computer or outside our home, we can make use of this phone to be active in the Blockchain, the UBS is definitely a device that any lover of blockchain technology would like to have, I want to have one, but unfortunately I can't, and although the purchase value is not so high I know I could not buy it, but maybe you can have it.
Price and Availability
The purchase value of this great device is very good, and something that has impressed me is that they can ship to Venezuela, although I imagine that the shipping cost of this product is something very high, but in the same way this impresses me, since most things like this, are blocked for my country, as well as many cryptocurrency pages that put restrictions for us Venezuelans.
According to what I have read, at first this phone had a purchase value of only $99, but I have not been able to confirm that information, but they are currently selling the second batch of the device which has at this moment a value of $12. 99 = $130, and here we are not going to pay for this phone with a bank account, with a credit card or much less with USDT, since being a phone that is focused on the TON network, the payment of such equipment is made with the native currency of the network, that is, you have to pay the $130 with the TON currency, which currently would be an amount of 21.45 TON.
To the cost of the phone will also be added a $30 fee that we will also have to pay in TON, besides the phone will arrive by September, do not think you will have it in less time, because that is how long it will take.
To have this phone you have to have a telegram account to access the TON network and connect your TON wallet with the page to pay for the phone, it really is amazing to see how far this network has expanded, and for those who read my content for a long time know that this network is one of my favorites after HIVE.
Why buy the Universal Basic Smartphone?
Previously, I told you that it has more than 600 Dapps which are used or we use a lot in the crypto world, and this is one of the main reasons to buy the phone, because that is what really caught my attention, it's like having your computer in your hand and have access to everything you do on your computer, even I have always said that to be in the crypto world, it is much better to use a computer than a phone, but that's because phones are not designed to meet all this.
But this phone has changed this limitation and gives you many useful tools in one place.
So it is time to point out one more of the most logical reasons why I see very important the purchase of this phone and why the user holder will have great benefits in the short, medium and long term.
Airdrops and Rewards: Just like the phone previously launched by the Solana network, UBS users will receive airdrops of different cryptocurrencies. This not only increases the value of the device, but also makes users an integral part of the emerging TON ecosystem.
Comparison with Solana Phone
Now you are probably a bit confused when I mentioned the SOLANA phone, as you may not know about its existence, but some time ago, the Solana network launched a similar phone that allowed users to access airdrops of various cryptocurrencies if name was (Solana Saga). This device was very successful and became a valuable investment for many. So if we talk about the Universal Basic Smartphone from Oyster Labs, we can notice that it follows the same principles, but with the added advantage of being part of the growing TON network, which offers users a richer and more varied experience that is currently having a lot of popularity.
Besides having a very striking design, here I will also leave a picture of the Solana Saga phone, so you can compare the design with the TON one.
The Solana Saga phone you can search and find it in stores like Ebay, with a value that exceed $900, but we also have to take into account that it was a phone with very good features because if we focus on the table of specifications of the Solana Saga we find this:
Snapdragon 8+ Gen 1
12 GB of RAM
512 GB of internal storage
6.67" OLED display
They are very good features of a current phone, but if we compare that with the basic characteristics of the TON phone, we can see that it has lower specifications than the above mentioned, but that does not detract from the usefulness and value it may have for the owner, the TON phone has:
The Universal Basic Smartphone is a great machine for us, we really need to have one of these in our life, besides what I have explained has many more features and things that make it interesting as the issue of cashback of 30% in more than 14K stores available which makes it great, that and many more features has this team.
I hope you can take some time to investigate more about this and if you get to buy one it would be great if you leave your opinion in the comments, my intention was to let you know this because in the end we have to be aware of everything, thank you very much for reading my content and I hope you have a happy day.
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