Electroneum’s new smartphone has crypto mining capabilities

Electroneum launched the new smartphone, named M1, in the Mobile World Congress taking place in Barcelona.
The phone is Google Mobile Services (GMS)-certified and comes with crypto mining capabilities.

Rajarshi Mitra Independent Analyst

Electroneum, a UK-headquartered blockchain company, has launched an $80 Android-based smartphone capable of cryptocurrency mining. The phone, named “M1,” is Google Mobile Services (GMS)-certified and comes with crypto mining capabilities. As their official Twitter account announced this Monday:

“Today we are delighted to announce the launch of the #Electroneum M1 phone - the $80 #android #smartphone that pays you back.”

Electroneum’s founder and CEO Richard Ells said:

“With our experience in tech, we were able to gather a world-class team consisting of telecommunications, manufacturing, emerging area mobile-operators, product design, and marketing specialists, all helping to make this utopian vision of ours a reality.

Without the broad range of talent and expertise, we could never have imagined the possibility of making a product of this caliber accessible for anyone in the world, and we are extremely proud of the result.”

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Rajarshi Mitra

Independent Analyst

Rajarshi entered the blockchain space in 2016. He is a blockchain researcher who has worked for Blockgeeks and has done research work for several ICOs. He gets regularly invited to give talks on the blockchain technology and cryptocurrencies.

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