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Shortly after the Solana Saga debuted in 2023, the popular tech YouTuber Marques Brownlee, otherwise known as MKBHD, released a video titled “This is a Crypto Phone. Don’t Buy It.” Brownlee complained to his 20 million YouTube subscribers about the Saga’s mediocre specs, high price and overly niche crypto features. 

Brownlee followed that video with another, naming the Solana Saga the biggest smartphone bust of 2023, which caused Solana Labs to joke that it had released an award-winning phone.

In creating the Solana Seeker, Solana Mobile seems to have taken its critics seriously,…

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