APD | Samsung releases blockchain-branded Galaxy Note 10

By APD writer Alice

South Korean multinational conglomerate Samsung has released a blockchain-branded variant of the Galaxy Note 10 to bring in customers holding out for a cryptocurrency-focused Samsung flagship.

The Wall Street Journal reports that the Galaxy Note 10 variant, which is only available in South Korea, is marketed as a “KlaytnPhone.” It’s named for a blockchain platform made by the blockchain arm of Kakao, a South Korean messaging company.

The KlaytnPhone will have a crypto wallet and blockchain apps built in, and will also give users a “certain amount” of Klay, a cryptocurrency made by Kakao.

Having a wallet and blockchain apps built into a phone isn’t exactly new — Samsung included a crypto wallet in some Galaxy S10s, HTC already offers a blockchain phone, and other Android phones can run Klaytn’s blockchain apps. But only the KlaytnPhone will “boast the blockchain platform’s full breadth of transaction services.”

Otherwise, the KlaytnPhone has the same hardware and is expected to have the same price as non-blockchain Galaxy Note 10s.

Previously, Samsung’s flagship lineup officially reached ten phones with four different Galaxy S10s, four Galaxy Note 10s, and the impending launches of two Galaxy Folds.

(ASIA PACIFIC DAILY)