Solana sells just 2,500 Saga phones, chief hints your iPhone should stay
Solana creator Anatoly Yakovenko says the company has only sold a tenth of the Saga phones it needs to sell to decide whether or not it has a core user base. Speaking to Unchained, Yakovenko confirmed that the company has sold somewhere in the region of 2,500 phones but needs to shift between 25,000 and 50,000 before developers start to come on board and create applications for the handset. According to Yakovenko, there are internal discussions happening within the company to decide the best course of action but he hinted that the phone ’s future may be as a much cheaper secondary device for iPhone users looking for a smart wallet. Yakovenko himself says he uses an iPhone for work and his Saga phone as his “NFT phone .” The Solana chief also hinted that the changing tech landscape will have an influence on the phone ’s future — if it has one. “What’s also changed over the last year and a half is that mobile interfaces like progressive web apps and passkeys, have really s...