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I got a Seeker phone and set it up yesterday. My son showed me his a month or so ago and I immediately wanted one of my own.
The Seeker phone is an Android phone, very similar to my Pixel 9 Pro in most respects, but also has a Solana hardware wallet and Solana dApp store on it.
I moved my Helium Mobile phone number from a second SIM on my Pixel to be the primary phone number on the Seeker. I got the Helium Mobile app from the dApp store on the Seeker phone.
I like the idea of a crypto native phone. It's like having a Ledger mixed with a Burner phone.
For now the Seeker phone is Solana only and that's something I personally struggle with as I'm chain agnostic in all things crypto.
But the Seeker phone is absolutely directionally correct in terms of where mobile devices should be heading.
I got a Seeker phone and set it up yesterday. My son showed me his a month or so ago and I immediately wanted one of my own.
The Seeker phone is an Android phone, very similar to my Pixel 9 Pro in most respects, but also has a Solana hardware wallet and Solana dApp store on it.
I moved my Helium Mobile phone number from a second SIM on my Pixel to be the primary phone number on the Seeker. I got the Helium Mobile app from the dApp store on the Seeker phone.
I like the idea of a crypto native phone. It's like having a Ledger mixed with a Burner phone.
For now the Seeker phone is Solana only and that's something I personally struggle with as I'm chain agnostic in all things crypto.
But the Seeker phone is absolutely directionally correct in terms of where mobile devices should be heading.
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Hi Casters. I wrote a bit about my Seeker crypto phone that I set up yesterday. https://avc.xyz/my-seeker-phone
I tried the Saga (the version prior to the Seeker). My biggest gripe is that they didn't use GrapheneOS. Decoupling the phone form Google is far more important than adding a crypto TEE-based wallet.
gm gm! How’s Helium Mobile’s service? I’ve been thinking about switching.
It is excellent. You can also port your primary number to Helium which I would do except now I am using it as my "burner number" ;)
Thanks for sharing! Switching to @helium
Helium is great! It uses T-Mobile for nation wide coverage (in the US).
Thanks for sharing 👍🏽
Will be curious how much use it gets. I haven’t turned mine on in weeks, but plan to re engage a bit in December. Wonder if we get anything new and fancy launching around breakpoint.
Are you earnestly chain agnostic? Also, why?
I guess I would say "why not?"
Jack of all trades, master of none… but I guess more importantly isn’t your job to be opinionated? Being multichain is one thing, being agnostic is another
I’m going to look into the Helium network in Maine; I bet there is decent coverage with the T Mobile partnership!
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Hi V.C
How does this work here