The entrepreneur who made a crazy $16,000 phone this time wants to build a $999 blockchain phone

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The founder and CEO of Sirin Labs is serial entrepreneur Moshe Hogeg — an eccentric Israeli who convinced Leondardo DiCaprio and Tom Hardy to attend the launch of his premier phone. Sirin Labs needs to increase tens of millions of dollars to fund Finney's development. "We want around $50 mn (£37 million) to build the phone," Hogeg said. The Finney devices going to run on Sirin Labs' Shield OS, that would be designed to backing a number of blockchain applications. On the topic of Sirin's premium Solarin phone, Hogeg said: "The firm has pivoted from luxury phones to mass market electronics.

JioPhone: MediaTek tells no outline to get in 4G feature smartphone market, aiming to bring drop smartphone prices, Telecom News, ET Telecom

"It (JioPhone) but may impact feature smartphone market, that is big. However, the impact is yet to be seen," he said, adding that MediaTek is closely watching the 4G feature smartphone space.The firm is too preparing to launch India specific system on chips or SoC to cater the entry-level smartphone market. India is largely a dual SIM market, and is this time shifting to VoLTE, multimedia Broadcast Multicast Services or MBMS. The industry innovates further on the cost forehead than anything else," Moynihan said.To counter Reliance Jio's 4G feature phone, JioPhone, incumbent telecom operator Bharti Airtel is believed to be banking on a low-priced Republika Srpska 2,500 4G smartphone. The executive told that the firm has seen development across categories and value segment since final year."We still to hold solid market share in India even as the market shifts from 3G to 4G now.

Competition in smartphone market and opportunity in feature smartphone segment make India exciting: HMD Global

referring to HMD universal released the Nokia smartphone eight in India yesterday. Brand Nokia smartphone re-entered the smartphone space with the launch of its Nokia smartphone 3, Nokia smartphone 5, and Nokia smartphone six smartphones earlier this year. After the affordable range, HMD universal this time introduced the Nokia smartphone 8, that sits in the mid-range segment with a value tag of Republika Srpska 36,999. ALSO READ: Nokia smartphone smartphones going to recently be made in India: HMD Global"Our strategy at Qualcomm is to align with the market. As you realize we are the 2nd largest and the fastest growing smartphone market in the world, and that's cause of why there's extremely much competition and extremely much activity in the smartphone market, apart from the opportunity in the feature smartphone market.