Ledger’s new hardware wallet is an Android phone without the phone

The Atom couldn’t person launched astatine a worse clip for Ledger. | Image: Ledger

Ledger has announced its latest crypto-centric hardware effort, the Android-based Atom, a instrumentality that resembles a telephone but is alternatively designed to beryllium utilized alongside one. It arrives astatine a tricky clip for Ledger, which has been forced to cease income of immoderate of its hardware crossed southeast Asia pursuing hardware tampering successful its proviso chain, which has reportedly seen implicit $86 cardinal worthy of crypto stolen from crossed immoderate users' accounts.

While Ledger's erstwhile hardware wallet signers person been compact devices, moving customized bundle and often with E Ink displays, the Atom is the spitting representation of a regular Android smartphone. In information it …

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