APhone is a virtual phone app that taps Web3.
APhone is a virtual phone app that taps Web3.
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APhone app uses Web3 to create an affordable virtual smartphone

  • Posted byby Dean Takahashi
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APhone is a new app that uses Web3 to create an affordable virtual smartphone. It’s all in the game of democratizing Web3 applications.

Singapore-based APhone has created a device-agnostic web-based virtual phone app that costs $20 a year. It officially launches on the Solana ecosystem with support from Aethir‘s GPU Cloud network.

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Dean Takahashi

Dean Takahashi is editorial director for GamesBeat. He has been a tech journalist since 1988, and he has covered games as a beat since 1996. He was lead writer for GamesBeat at VentureBeat from 2008 to April 2025. Prior to that, he wrote for the San Jose Mercury News, the Red Herring, the Wall Street Journal, the Los Angeles Times, and the Dallas Times-Herald. He is the author of two books, "Opening the Xbox" and "The Xbox 360 Uncloaked." He organizes the annual GamesBeat Next, GamesBeat Summit and GamesBeat Insider Series: Hollywood and Games conferences and is a frequent speaker at gaming and tech events. He lives in the San Francisco Bay Area.