97: Building web3 Mobile Phone | Andrew Watson, Senior Android Developer at Solana Mobile

Billion Moonshots

Solana Mobile launched a web3-focused Android mobile phone Saga, along with an open-source software toolkit, Solana Mobile Stack; and is looking to take on the phone and app ecosystem giants like Apple and Google. We talked about the process of launching new hardware, working with the team behind Essential Phone, origin story of Solana Mobile, why the web3 ecosystem needs a web3 phone, and much more.

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OUTLINE

(00:00) - Working with the team behind Essential phone (02:00) - Origin story of Solana Mobile (05:06) - Impact of a web3 phone on the ecosystem (10:45) - Manufacturing Process (15:20) - Feature 1: Seed Vault (18:55) - Feature 2: Wallet Adapter (20:01) - Feature 3: Dapp Store (27:27) - User Experience (31:40) - Launch (34:35) - Dapp Ideas

TOP EPISODES

87: Shane Mac, President of XMTP Labs

77: Shashank Kumar, Founder of Razorpay [Hindi]

75: Kyla Scanlon, Founder of Bread

74: Adam Jackson, Co-founder of Braintrust

68: Natalie Brunell, Host of Coin Stories Podcast

62: Suumit Shah, CEO of Dukaan [Hindi]

Past guests of Billion Moonshots include Shane Mac, Shashank Kumar, Suumit Shah, Natalie Brunell, Kyla Scanlon, Adam Jackson, Tyler Denk, Anshul Rustaggi, Danielle Strachman, Chirag Taneja, Suhas Motwani, Aditya Mohanty, Jan-Philipp Peters, Mo Islam, Peer Richelsen, Justin Nguyen, Paul Griffiths, Gautam Gupta, Sang Le, Rahul Rana, Grace Ling, Joseph Choi and many more.